Yes, the profit is excessive, but it's because they have a good product where the competition has not really been putting in much effort and letting Valve get away with it for so long.

Valve's goal isn't to maximize profit because they don't have shareholders that demand it. If they really wanted to maximize profits then there's a whole lot more to squeeze out of Steam and the games they made. And yes I agree Valve can lower their cut and still make bucket loads of money, but I highly doubt that if they did reduce their cut it would actually lead to cheaper games except for a maybe a few. Because just like Valve, the devs and publishers are profit driven and why would they turn down a potentially bigger profit?

You can always try professional data recovery services. It just depends on how much the data is worth to you.

Everyone already gave a shit about this a long time ago. It's also one of the reasons Ethereum switched from proof of work to proof of stake.

Good for the car that's going to park, terrible for the parked cars who will then barely get out.

Sure, you don't have to support it with updates indefinitely, but I think the possibility should exist to delist it so new people can't buy it but people who bought it before would still be able to download it (with no guarantee it will work).

You can't inspect pkgbuild with Chaotic since Chaotic compiles the packages for you.

When I fkrst read this I thought this was a joke post of someone not being able to start the game on their PC.

Who wouldn't want to supervise themselves?

Gamespot did 55 hours and IGN started NG+ at 60 hours according to their respective video reviews.

"By the end of the 2 year term, you can’t upgrade to a new phone with Pixel Pass."

They're not honoring that part of the deal.

Also if people pirate a game they can potentially still buy it through official channels later. If they have bought it through grey or black markets then that opportunity is lost.

Does this mean I'm allowed to bring my asciiquarium?