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72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study
(www.gamesindustry.biz)
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2025
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Why isn't their cut mentioned? This seems like the most important information.
The owner of the marketplace has the right to charge merchants who sell their goods in a safe place provided by the owner, especially when the market itself is delivering and garunteeing the product works.
So yeah, Valve takes more than other companies, but unlike say Epic Games valve is actually making sure the devs deliver a working product.
... Am I still on lemmy?
The whole thread is a corporate talk and ~~Apple~~ Steam fan mix. Your first paragraph...
We're discussing a monopoly, and all I am reading is how good a product they're making.
Shouldn't the discussion also be about their costs, margins?
Is the market difficult to enter by its nature? How much would the users and developers benefit from more competition?
And I still dont know their cut.
Steam isn't blocking anyone from competing as far as I'm aware. It's just that most customers don't to switch to a new platform because none of the competition is better than they are and we don't want to have to juggle multiple launchers. If Steam started being assholes to the customers or developers stopped putting games on there we'd look at other options.
Supposing Steam is a monopoly what remedy do propose that wouldn't make the user experience worse for their customers?