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Brainless take. "I want all of the benefits of a huge storefront with free advertisement and countless features that attract customers, but I don't wanna pay for it!"
Brainless take. Valve is making money hand over fist. Most game devs are not making money. Valve aren't creating any of the games, valve aren't taking any of the risk
Do you think the payment processing, storage, content distribution, content delivery, social & communal aspects are free? Think for a second before writing your nonargument.
You're arguing against obtuseness. I think it's a close cousin of willful ignorance.
Strawman.
It is not.
It is. You ascribe an argument to me that I wasn't making. It's a strawman.