Yeah, I see your point. To paraphrase, it says that they have to make a profit and can’t guarantee game sales from their own store to offset any potential subsidisation.
My point is that Gaben/Valve have billions and don’t need the profit from it. So what if some people use it to play games from other stores? They’ll be in the minority for sure.
I guess everyone is too capitalism-brained to see past the profit motive.
To be clear, nowhere in that article suggests that valve would be making a profit on the current price, or that they “have to make a profit” - just that they would not sell it under cost.
I’m genuinely confused how that becomes “profit motive”, or shows greed.
I guess this explains it better than I could: https://lemmy.world/post/48534116
Yeah, I see your point. To paraphrase, it says that they have to make a profit and can’t guarantee game sales from their own store to offset any potential subsidisation.
My point is that Gaben/Valve have billions and don’t need the profit from it. So what if some people use it to play games from other stores? They’ll be in the minority for sure.
I guess everyone is too capitalism-brained to see past the profit motive.
I’m not sure you do see my point.
To be clear, nowhere in that article suggests that valve would be making a profit on the current price, or that they “have to make a profit” - just that they would not sell it under cost.
I’m genuinely confused how that becomes “profit motive”, or shows greed.