Yeah, I want such giants (that are basically core infrastructure of a sector) to be regulated.
Just whip up a law saying their margins can’t be over 5% of a game’s sale price (the reason is to boost smal devs & market competition). Worst case 10 ppl don’t get richer.
(It’s a bit like capping the price of a medicine, but for cultural reasons instead of healthcare reasons.)
What, are they gonna quit the business bcs making only 100 million a year in net profit just isn’t worth it & would rather go do manual labour in the mines instead?
(Same logic as with taxes - if there was a 90% tax over 10 million ppl would still do the same things they do anyway, we were just taught to believe that someone earning 1bn per year would say ‘no, it’s not worth it for those 100m after taxes, I quit and now you can’t buy my good overpriced phones anymore so you lose’. It would never happen. The only difference would be in their wealth concentration, ie in their power over government/lobbies/public media.)
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30% is too much! Clearly Steam doesn’t need that much to operate (the percentage of each sale that go to Valve)
Yeah, I want such giants (that are basically core infrastructure of a sector) to be regulated.
Just whip up a law saying their margins can’t be over 5% of a game’s sale price (the reason is to boost smal devs & market competition). Worst case 10 ppl don’t get richer.
(It’s a bit like capping the price of a medicine, but for cultural reasons instead of healthcare reasons.)
What, are they gonna quit the business bcs making only 100 million a year in net profit just isn’t worth it & would rather go do manual labour in the mines instead?
(Same logic as with taxes - if there was a 90% tax over 10 million ppl would still do the same things they do anyway, we were just taught to believe that someone earning 1bn per year would say ‘no, it’s not worth it for those 100m after taxes, I quit and now you can’t buy my good overpriced phones anymore so you lose’. It would never happen. The only difference would be in their wealth concentration, ie in their power over government/lobbies/public media.)