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Try going to any other platform and tell me how much better it is.
95% of the players on pc are on steam, if you don't publish your game there you're just shooting yourself in the foot - this has very little to do with the quality of the service valve provides and everything to do about their monopoly on the market. Would they like to pay a smaller cut to valve? Sure, but it's just the cost of doing business, you go where your customers are.
Customers flock to valve because it's more than a storefront. It eliminates the needs for everything else, no need for discord, forums, lfg pages, recording software, controller mapping software, 3rd party mod hosting, mod managers, etc etc etc. look at how much further Valve has pushed Linux and Linux support in gaming than anyone imagined possible. Look at their return policy, absolutely no other storefront is that consumer friendly.
30% is industry standard, get mad at the storefronts that are just storefronts as well as steam or you're just sounding like Tim Sweeney on another unhinged nepo baby rant.
It was an industry standard, that's been changing for a while, just take a look at how much fire google and apple are taking over their stores.
Valve is a corporation, it might be less bad than the rest, but at the end of the day gabe is still sifting mai thais on his 500 million dollars yacht.
Complaining about a billionaire sipping drinks on a yacht while screaming and crying to defend the billionaire CEOs at the publishing companies that have shit all over every developer and consumer in the industry is certainly an interesting position.
I never mentioned publishers, in fact indies do not even have publishers. Can you stop with this whataboutism ?