Epic CEO Tim Sweeney called Valve “assholes” in an old email thread that’s been dug up as part of a lawsuit against the Steam owner.
The email thread, spotted by GameDiscoverCo, was between Sweeney and Valve’s head Gabe Newell discussing the economics of the Steam platform. It began in 2017 with an email from Newell to Sweeney pointedly asking “Anything we doing to annoy you?” and referencing a post from Valve’s Sean Jenkins about restricting Steam keys given to developers.
Sweeney responded instead on “the economics of these 30 percent platform fees” which he described as “no longer justifiable”. In short, he said the marketing benefits of the Steam storefront is “far disproportionate to the fee” thanks to “the churn of new game releases”.
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