Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
Benefits of buying local:
Local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.
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I'm literally installing windows right now. I feel disgust, but I need it for one application that I know will never have a Linux version. I got tired of the slow as shit virtual machine I used for it before. I can't replace it with an alternative either, for business reasons.
For steam I only use their proton compatibility layer for my "DRM free games", I only bought Terraria on their store and I rarely play it these day I'll play it again when 1.4.5 come out
Which company is the cool one?
The one running an illegal online casino for minors.
It's crazy how it's absolutely impossible to criticize steam without getting bashed to oblivion by so-called gamers. The amount of free balls sucking Steam gets is just ridiculous. They have sub 100 employees , take 30% of every god damn games sold on the platform and you don't own you games. Yeah it's a cool platform, but in the end it's just another nasty capitalist business.
Boy are you gonna be surprised as hell when you find out what sort of percentage other publishers take, especially for physical releases!
Shockingly enough, infrastructure requires money to run!
You mean like Epic who takes 12%?
Or Itch that let you chose your contribution?
Or Humble that takes 25% but give half of that to charity?
BTW steam is not a publisher...
The infrastructure argument is just BS in 2025. Just admit you're an official gamer, meaning you will do anything to protect a soulless capitalist business that make millions everyday but employ like 83 people. Ubisoft bad, Steam good, I know lol.