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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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Usually steam is mostly praised for being a decent company. But what are the devs saying about the 30% cut. Do they think it's reasonable or is there any discontent among the devs?
That was the main argument for the Epic Games store. They told devs that they can keep the first million dollars earned and then they will only take 12%. The problem was they kept paying devs to be “Epic Exclusive” causing a lot of resentment.
Also the fact that Valve will drop games from their store should the dev/publisher sell it somewhere else cheaper.
Is that really true? Saw others in this thread debunking that.
Guess not. I thought it applied to non-key games as well, but apparently not.
They "debunked" it by citing Steam terms of service regarding Steam Keys, which is about as relevant as citing Harry Potter.
That's only for steam keys.
What does that have to do with my comment?
So you're saying even in the case of steam keys valve is cool with it?
Weird. Does this mean the selling of cheaper steam keys just isn't true or is it just not enforced?