!fuckcars@lemmy.world would approve.
For nothing? Won't there be a paycheck?
The "30% is the industry standard" claim is not even true anymore. Epic currently takes 0% to expand its catalog, though from what I remember, it estimated that it needs to take 7% or so to be profitable. Microsoft takes 12%. Itch allows to adjust. GOG's fee varies from deal to deal. Ubisoft (and EA) no longer sell third-party games, so they're out of scope here.
The only way I've seen people try to counter this is by referring to the mobile and console store fees, but going by the Epic v. Google trial where the jury was asked to define the market and defined it as Android, there's just no way that argument would hold water. Still, console manufacturers produce at a loss, so they need to make up for that. In the mobile market, Google is already changing its fee to be 20% or less.
Edit: lawsuit->trial
GOG's fee is flexible, as are publisher contracts, which have no relevance to the discussion, as it's in addition to store fees and involves major investments. Google is changing its fee to 20%. Epic's is currently 0%. Microsoft Store's is 12%, itch's is adjustable. In the PC market, Valve is pretty much the main outlier at this point.
I'm referring to archive.today and its mirrors like archive. ph.
Edit: Added a space to the link so it's not actually linked.
This community needs a rule against malicious links.
Yeah, the longer the war lasts, the worse it is for the environment.
That looks much more like a maga yatch than a navy ship.
FTFY.
If it were a less sensitive issue, from the backseat I'd probably agree that the 24 hour ban was excessive, as it left no room for reposting with corrections from what looked like an otherwise well-intentioned post. If you reposted without corrections or posted anything else that's in violation of the rules, then I'd probably ban.
I think that, and even the expectation for them to do more than to remove (and let you repost with corrections), rests on the notion of your comment not being in violation of the rules, which is obviously in dispute here.
It's not like Ukraine would get any help from Iran and its allies even if Zelenskyy fully sided with them though. On the other hand, pandering to the US may have benefits when dealing with someone as narcissistic as Trump. There's a reason Zelenskyy congratulated him on the election even before the votes were counted, same as how he keeps talking to Trump even after that White House humiliation and many other Trump gestures and decisions favorable to Russia.