While they don’t directly set prices, they do influence it with monopoly and anti-competitive behaviour with rules like “you can’t sell your game cheaper on other platforms”. Only in 2024 did they remove the controversial “no sue” clause., which then prompted bunch of lawsuits, mostly around anti-trust behaviour.
The 30% cut is extremely outdated as 100gb HDD no longer costs more than your ram, internet is not metered in megabytes and infrastructure valve uses gas gotten really cheap, so by now they’re drowning in money while still not lowering fees, rising prices for hardware and practicing closed loop economy taxation (which pretty much no one else does)
Yeah, that’s my entire point. The corporation is drowning in money, yet they still try to milk us
What do you mean milk? Steam didn’t set the prices of your games, the developers and publishers do.
They also don’t require that you buy their hardware, and release steam OS for free.
While they don’t directly set prices, they do influence it with monopoly and anti-competitive behaviour with rules like “you can’t sell your game cheaper on other platforms”. Only in 2024 did they remove the controversial “no sue” clause., which then prompted bunch of lawsuits, mostly around anti-trust behaviour.
The 30% cut is extremely outdated as 100gb HDD no longer costs more than your ram, internet is not metered in megabytes and infrastructure valve uses gas gotten really cheap, so by now they’re drowning in money while still not lowering fees, rising prices for hardware and practicing closed loop economy taxation (which pretty much no one else does)