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@gargar: Also, Valve gives freedom to both developers and consumers to choose where to buy and sell games from alongside with Steam. They let developers / publishers to generate unlimited free keys on Steam to sell on third party sites creating a self-competition. Those devs / pubs gets to keep 100 percent or close to it amount of profit for themselves without Valve taking a cent. They don't control the pricing or discount sales and lets developers and publishers to set that. Steam's direct and biggest competitor is GOG but they have various other big and small competitors. Unlike Epic who is anti-consumer, anti-competitive and a monopoly with their forced exclusivity BS, Valve does not restrict competition, they welcome it. It took 15+ years of hard work, dedication and being pro-developer / pro-consumer which led to Valve / Steam being the market leader in the PC game industry, not to mention Steam being THE most feature rich digital platform in the video game industry, more than any other competitor's platform both on PC and on consoles.

@gargar: Epic giving developers more money, that's just another Epic / media spin. Here's why. The whole debate about 30 percent vs 12 percent is a farce. Its not about the percentage cut. It never was about the cut. Its about Epic giving these greedy publishers an upfront bag of cash to sign exclusivity deals. That's all.

If it was about the cut then, these publishers would've moved to other platforms that has lower cut than Epic, who've been into digital distribution platform a lot longer than Epic. Platforms like Discord, which asks for 10 percent of the cut which is lower than Epic's. Humble Bundle, which asks for 5 percent of the cut through Humble Widget which is lower than both Discord and Epic. Itch.io, which asks for basically whatever percent of the cut you want to give them, which is lower than all the others combined. And yet a lot of developers and publishers choose Steam over any of them Why ? Because Steam provides THE most features and services to both developers and customers more than any other platforms in the gaming industry, PC or consoles.

For the record, other major platforms like GOG, Microsoft, Sony, Amazon, Google, Apple and others also take 30 percent of the cut while providing / giving back significantly less features and services in return. I wanna emphasize on Sony and Microsoft (Playstation and Xbox) who are the biggest gaming platforms next to PC, Who've been taking that 30 percent cut from developers and publishers for decades now while doing business with them. They don't provide nowhere as near as many features and services as Steam does. And yet, we can still see developers / publishers happily put all their games on those consoles and make huge profits.

Bottom line is simple. Out of all of these platforms, only Steam gives back the most features and services to both developers and consumers, in other words, Steam earns their cut AND they're adding and improving new features and services every single year for no extra charge. Not only that but Valve has also reduced their 30 percent cut to 20 percent for those who meets certain sales milestone. So like I said, it never was about the cut. Its all about greedy developers / publishers getting paid upfront a bag of cash by Epic for exclusive deals while shoving down all sorts of anti-consumer / anti-competitive policies on us customers.

And to give you a rough idea of the amount of features and services Steam provides, take a lot at the following chart. Bear in mind that, it only lists the major features of Steam and not all of them as there's plenty more out there as well as all the new features that are going to be implemented in 2019 on Steam. And these are just some of the features and services that are public knowledge and have been revealed by Valve themselves. There's a whole host of other infrastructures that Valve operates and maintains on a daily basis.

https://imgur.com/P6cIq1u

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks#announcements/detail/1697194621363928453

And to further reiterate the point of developers getting more money from the lesser cut, in most cases, especially for big companies, that is not true. Most of the profit does not goes to the developers. It goes straight to the higher-up CEOs, CFOs, board members and the likes. If anything goes wrong, its the developers who gets either paycuts or the axe aka gets fired from those companies, while the higher-ups sit on their ever increasing pile of cash lighting cigars with their hundred dollar bills. We've seen it time and again. Here are just some recent examples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmK43DV_wVY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bn3Ydzj-tY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6rwbKzrcd8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz4qegmGoLo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jM_FL5VxO8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdVLJ6mLT-U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tke1c83ceXI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh0mKpzXf5A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrKDgDlbsS8