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Re:Epic Games Is Acquiring Psyonix by stordoff on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @05:59PM (#19802082)
> Hopefully the beatings will continue until Valve stops taxing game developers so hard.

87.5% of Steam's sales in Asia are from over 90 non-standard payment methods (outside of Visa, MasterCard, American Express, PayPal, PaySafe), and Steam Retail Cards cost Valve 10-15% of the sale. Epic either just don't support them, or charge the customer extra. I don't think it's fair to say Valve are "taxing game developers so hard".

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/appmgmt/gdc2019/slides/gdc_2... (search "Steam Retail Cards") or https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/resources/gdc2019 (full presentation; 35:40)

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Re:Epic Games Is Acquiring Psyonix by throwawaywhynot on Thursday May 02, 2019 @12:10AM (#19804636)
A couple of months ago they didn't even support regional pricing. Still doubt they support domestic cards. With so many news on hacks on epic account, I've never heard of abyone being thrilled to create an epic account
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