“ Additionally, if thats your fear then you should basically cease using all modern gaming platforms and services because they have a hand in almost all of them.”

Epic is a publicly traded company, Valve is privately held and Valve doesn’t answer to any shareholders.

Effectively, the gamers are Valves shareholders.

Game developers barely see any percentage of that increase, espcially when it’s their parent company or publisher that makes the decision to take on that extra cash.

Valve has introduce many feature sets both to the consumer and the developer which made PC gaming a better platform.

Also 30% is the industry standard.…

If anything other smaller digital stores are going to be the biggest collateral damage in all of this.

Valve will still keep on updating and introducing new features for Steam and many will still use it because we have libraries of 500+ game or more.

The big publishers have the most to gain from this, especially if…

One thing that I learned back when I got my 7970 and first 120Hz monitor... (back in 2011 I think...) Is that not all Display cables are created equal...

It’s not to say you can’t buy the cheapest cable, just be sure the display port cable is the right one. I’ve made this mistake more than once...

For example Club 3D is…

One thing that I learned back when I got my 7970 and first 120Hz monitor... (back in 2011 I think...) Is that not…

“ What’s surprising here is that Valve chose to make a public statement that would, almost without a doubt, rile these people up. “

Why wouldn’t they make an announcement?...

Especially when steam had Metro advertised on it’s main page, only to have the publisher pull it a few days before launch on it’s steam store page…