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I assume it is a case of monopoly abuse. There are things you are allowed to get away with as a minor player in a market because no one has to do business with you.
For example, GoG can insist that developers give them a game build without DRM since they are a minor software store and a majority of their customers know they can buy software other places.
Steam, on the other hand, is used by almost all gamers. For many gamers, it is the only game store they use. If a game is listed on the Steam front page, a large portion of the games market will learn about the game. If Steam decides not to list a game, customers may assume that the game is not out yet, regardless of the amount of advertising they see for it. The publisher would need to have a special advertising campaign saying "yes, the game is out already but you have to use this other game store to buy it."
But if that's the policy that built steam, it isn't abusing their position if they have been consistent from the before times. I'm don't know if that's the case but I don't recall any particular discussion about it changing and we definately would have heard about people complaining of so.
A long standing policy that built this "monopoly" simply because no one else wanted to and were happy to hand over the reigns to steam for so long, you dont get to cry foul now if they aren't actually using this supposed monopoly to punish people.
I think 30% is a lot, but it hasn't been problematic till some big garbage company is upset about it? Ubisoft can go eat a bag of dicks. They had every chance to do something about this a decade ago. They shit the bed. Too bad for them. Flush. Move on imho