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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago

PlayStation and Xbox subsidize the cost of the console.

Valve is subsidizing their services that they provide to gamers.

Apple and Google have been having their 30% fees (and the monopolies that allow them) struck down by courts and competition regulators around the world.

They have 15% since 2020 or so. As far as I understood, Apple got sued, then changed the cut% and Google followed shortly after to avoid getting sued. Once app earns more than $1 million, it gets 30% cut again.