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Epic Games Store Users Have Grown by 173% in Six Years, But Revenue Only by 1.6% (www.eteknix.com)
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[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Comparing a photo app to steam is like comparing basic addition to quantum physics.

The sheer amount of complexity that goes into the business side out side of just the app it self is truly immense.

Steam is more then just an app. It's entire business empire with years and years of connections, agreements and contracts, secondary services, infrastructure and more.

Even if you managed to clone steam 1:1 you would still have nothing. The app alone is honestly the least important aspect of the entire thing.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 minutes ago

Point of my comparison is that even if photo app as good as Google Photos can be recreated with barely any money in the pocket, companies that have pockets full of money could do much more than a simple photo app. Epic has cash to fund a fairly competitive Steam clone. Microsoft is in exact situation and probably has even more money than Epic. Both of them have teams that could do this in a span of a year or so. They are just choosing not to.

Steam is more then just an app. It’s entire business empire with years and years of connections, agreements and contracts, secondary services, infrastructure and more.

Yeah. So is MS and Epic. And they both are older than Valve.