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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

Epic deserves shit for being a shitty company overall. The lower sale tax is great for devs, but most consumers don't care, because the program is a shitty Unreal application pretending to be a shitty web browser

Valve can definitely lower their sale tax, they get loads of money off trading cards and skin sales, maintenance of that shit is waaay lower than the petabytes needed for games. At least some of the money is spent making better consumer stuff, like Steam deck and increasing the number of games that you can play on Linux with Proton. Doesn't explain the 30% either way