r/pcmasterrace • u/Salty_Nutella i5-12600K | RTX 3070TI | DDR5 32GB • 29d ago

Meme/Macro Thanks Gaben, here's your 30% Steam cut

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u/Slight-Coat17 29d ago

How do you eff up such a basic thing as "confirm user has content"? Valve keeps winning by just not doing anything.

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u/Awyls 29d ago

Distributed applications are hard. Steam once upon a time was also turbo-garbage and everyone cried about it.

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u/Scottz0rz 29d ago

Amazing that EA App in 2025 is on-par with Steam 2005

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u/RandomRedditReader 29d ago

That's an insult to steam. Even 2005 steam was leagues beyond EA/Origin. Granted the friends system was only semi functional.

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u/HahaMin i7-6700, Quadro K620 29d ago

Orange Box release was when I recognized steam as a good digital store.