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[-] Magiccupcake@startrek.website 25 points 1 year ago

If they're making record profits why did they decide to come to steam?

I think their player numbers have dropped and they're trying to boost them.

[-] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago

I’ve been mostly out of the loop for overwatch but my guess is so that can have even more recorder profits

[-] dom@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

I shudder to think what they'll do for recordest profits

[-] roon@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

They're gonna do the profitiest profit that anyone has ever profited

[-] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I liked the part where Bobby Kotick said "its profiting time" and then profited all over the place

[-] ABotelho@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

More money.

That's literally any of this is lol

[-] fuzzywolf23@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Steam takes 30%. If they thought they could drive people to their standalone launcher they would be doing that

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I don't think that is correct; Steam usually takes 30%, but I thought some of the larger publishers negotiated different (secret) rates.

[-] Whom@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It seems most likely to me that it's prep for the rest of the Microsoft deal so they can claim to regulators they aren't using their ever-growing control to choke out other platforms. Same reason they're making those promises about Call of Duty on Switch.

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