• jim3692@discuss.online
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    9 hours ago

    Out of all the services that Valve offers, you decided to compare their checkout page?

    • Valve offers to devs, completely free of charge, full access to their matchmaking network, across any platform
    • Valve has vastly improved Windows games compatibility on Linux, by developing Proton. Epic locks users to Windows, because of their anti-cheat.
    • Valve revolutionized handheld gaming, by bringing desktop games to portable devices
    • Valve requires devs to show in the games’ store page whether it contains AI slop. Epic is a supporter of AI slop
    • ulterno@programming.dev
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      8 hours ago

      Yes, because the checkout page gets revenue ⇒ the bottom line.

      The points you say are the things Valve is doing extra to provide value to the customer.
      The point I am saying, is the first thing that anyone working for money needs to care about.

      steampowered checkout page:

      • loads in a reasonable time
      • has the same colour theme as the rest of the website

      Epic checkout page:

      • even the in-app checkout page is slower than the Steam web checkout page
        • is slow not only before loading but also after clicking the ‘place order’ button
      • White colour on dark theme website/app