The GPU company that provided the GPU to render the assets also deserves a cut, don’t you think?

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    At least game engines provide massive value. Yeah they take a cut, but more money would have ultimately been used to produce a vastly inferior inhouse engine. Yeah Unity’s recent move is douchey, buy it’s still miles better than any of the extortion by app stores. No one can tell me Apple’s curation is worth a 30% cut. Ridiculous.

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      No one can tell me Apple’s curation is worth a 30% cut.

      I mean, it obviously is, otherwise companies wouldn’t be paying it. The difference is that in the case of the distribution platform, it’s worth it not because it would add any value to the game itself, but because of the monopoly of the platform, which provides value to nobody but the platform.