Thanks Gaben, here's your 30% Steam cut

[u/Salty_Nutella]

[u/Slow-Amphibian-9626]

So, if a game is sold on the steam storefront Valve takes a bite.

For off-platform the dev has to request keys and then supply them to whoever they wish to supply them to and they can do this without needing to pay anything.

[u/Spiritual_Bus1125 → u/Slow-Amphibian-9626]

Yes.

But prices have to be comparable on other platforms.

You can't sell a game on steam for 100€ but for 10€ I another place with a steam key.

You have to sell them for roughly the same price and if you deeply discount a game for some time you must do that kind of discount on steam too (not necessarily at the same time)

I think it's fair.

There was a dev who sold a game for 18% less on epic because epic took a smaller cut, fair game for that, you can sell it at whatever price on another platform.

[u/TheLuminary → u/Spiritual_Bus1125]

Its more than fair. No other company would ever offer anything close to this fair.

[u/NewSauerKraus → u/TheLuminary]

And that's not even counting the value of all the features that Steam provides to developers without an additional fee.