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Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

Yep. Sell your game for whatever you want wherever you want. If you want to distribute your game via Steam (Steam keys), you can't sell them cheaper than they are sold on Steam because you aren't handling the distribution (which costs money).

Otherwise a competing company (like Ubisoft) could just make a 20TB game, list it on steam for a crazy price, then sell Steam keys for it on another storefront cheap; Steam will have to cover the distribution costs without making anything in return.