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What you're describing sounds a lot like iOS's/Google's IAP fee cut and the controversy around it.
...And I'd still side against Valve in that case, like I did against Apple and Google.
The issue is Valve shouldn't be in that anticompetitive position in the first place.
Ubisoft isn't "leeching" off Steam because they want to, they have their own download and game networking infrastructure already. In that scenario, Ubisoft is only listing on Steam and trying to skirt the 30% cut because they effectively have to be on Steam.
And the only response I've seen to this is "well, Ubisoft just shouldn't be on Steam if they don't like it."
But that's commercial suicide now. It's list, or die, basically.
They didn't have to be on Steam. They could have put in the effort to make their storefront worth going to instead of being an awful pile of trash.
Not contesting that the Ubisoft launcher is a gigantic pile of trash.
But that doesn’t make a pseudo monopoly okay.
It does not mean Valve should get to dictate what happens in other stores with threats of their own. A policy like that is anti consumer and should be illegal.