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.
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.
If fhere was a big app store alternative then devs would put their stuff probably on there. Or at least encourage you to use the alternative store.
There is a marginal benefit in search cost reduction for end users.
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I don't think any inhouse engine can be fucked up so badly as to be inferior to Unity.