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The GPU company that provided the GPU to render the assets also deserves a cut, don't you think?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

At least game engines provide massive value. Yeah they take a cut, but more money would have ultimately been used to produce a vastly inferior inhouse engine. Yeah Unity's recent move is douchey, buy it's still miles better than any of the extortion by app stores. No one can tell me Apple's curation is worth a 30% cut. Ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No one can tell me Apple's curation is worth a 30% cut.

I mean, it obviously is, otherwise companies wouldn't be paying it. The difference is that in the case of the distribution platform, it's worth it not because it would add any value to the game itself, but because of the monopoly of the platform, which provides value to nobody but the platform.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There is a marginal benefit in search cost reduction for end users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If fhere was a big app store alternative then devs would put their stuff probably on there. Or at least encourage you to use the alternative store.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think any inhouse engine can be fucked up so badly as to be inferior to Unity.