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this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
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Had to look it up for curiosity's sake.
While not free, seems to be no overhead for the length of stay on Steam that I can see. Another site includes some more description which might add to the cost though
Regardless, it's just another unfortunate case of physical copies/backups>subscriptions or "licensing/rent" deals.
So steam basically is using a cut of a games sales to pay for hosting.