Because it’s enriching millionaires and billionaires for not doing shit, at the expense of gamers who are overpaying, and/or game developers who are losing out on revenue they can use to pay the people actually making games.
Every single indie dev who spent 5 years of their life crafting a game, suddenly has to give 30% of all of their revenue to Valve for maintaining a largely automated storefront. That’s fucked.
And it extra pisses me off because gamers act like billionaire-Gabe is a saint, and billionaire-Sweeney is the devil, when Gabe has ripped everyone off for decades, and Tim Sweeney just paid developers for exclusive game rights to try and launch a competitor store. Like omg so evil of them to offer to pay for development of a game in a situation where the developer has zero obligation or pressure to take the deal. What monsters.
Tim Sweeney has also risked a significant chunk of Epic’s Fortnite fortune on lawsuits that have fundamentally changed and broken the app store monopolies, and he’s spent much of his personal fortune on buying up land for nature conservation.
The idea that Gabe and Valve are saints and Tim and Epic are the devil is fucking dumb.
Like seriously what do you care? Why does it matter to you how much cut Steam or Epic take?
Personally I just don’t give a shit. I am supporting Linux gaming development, that’s all I care about.
Because it’s enriching millionaires and billionaires for not doing shit, at the expense of gamers who are overpaying, and/or game developers who are losing out on revenue they can use to pay the people actually making games.
Every single indie dev who spent 5 years of their life crafting a game, suddenly has to give 30% of all of their revenue to Valve for maintaining a largely automated storefront. That’s fucked.
And it extra pisses me off because gamers act like billionaire-Gabe is a saint, and billionaire-Sweeney is the devil, when Gabe has ripped everyone off for decades, and Tim Sweeney just paid developers for exclusive game rights to try and launch a competitor store. Like omg so evil of them to offer to pay for development of a game in a situation where the developer has zero obligation or pressure to take the deal. What monsters.
Tim Sweeney has also risked a significant chunk of Epic’s Fortnite fortune on lawsuits that have fundamentally changed and broken the app store monopolies, and he’s spent much of his personal fortune on buying up land for nature conservation.
The idea that Gabe and Valve are saints and Tim and Epic are the devil is fucking dumb.
I’ll respect Tim more if he supports and contributes to Linux.
Linux Development Quickstart: Get started developing with Unreal Engine on Linux.
How many contributions to RADV, ACO, Proton?
Edit:
https://www.webpronews.com/radvs-rise-how-valve-and-amd-are-reshaping-linux-graphics-in-late-2025/
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ACO-Scheduler-Heuristics
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Play-Proton-10.0-4
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Upstream-Everything-OSS
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Arch-Linux-Collaboration
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Old-AMD-Linux-Love-Song
Edit2:
These are the Vulkan specifications: https://registry.khronos.org/vulkan/specs/latest/html/vkspec.html
Search “valve” on this page and count the number of results, then search “epic” and compare.
How many viable game engines / game development toolchains does Valve produce that run on Linux?
You’re cherry picking parts of the ecosystem to care about, because it serves your preexisting narrative that Valve=Good, Epic=Bad.
As a consumer, Valve gives me greater value than Epic. Its just simple as that.