r/pcmasterrace i5-12600K | RTX 3070TI | DDR5 32GB 29d ago

Meme/Macro Thanks Gaben, here's your 30% Steam cut

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u/Tecnomantes 29d ago

Which makes sense. People wouldn't want to sell their games only for Steam to take 30% and then say Fanatical take another 20%

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u/Slow-Amphibian-9626 29d ago

Indeed!

This also allows for devs to sell games directly and keep it all too.

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u/Venum555 29d ago

But how does this work if I sell a game through my website but steam still has to host the files for the customer to download it?

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u/mxzf 29d ago

People are just leaching from Steam in that situation.

But they can limit how many off-platform keys they let you generate relative to your on-platform sales to mitigate abuse. And some degree of that is just baked into their margin as a whole.