have you ever wondered why no one can provide the services Valve does for cheaper than Valve does? Is it because of their famously anticompetitive practices, their notorious lobbying and threats to politicians, their strong-arm manipulation of vendors against each other? Perhaps they have some other method of defeating market forces?

Meanwhile you ran it on Windows. So obviously you didn't really care about being manipulated and fucked up the ass dry.

The real crime is that Valve requires price parity when you independently (no Steam keys) sell your game on a different store, as well as the Steam store.

They don't. Only if you are selling steam keys do they require price parity and only for steam key sales. You cannot sell a Steam key for less than you sell your game on Steam for. You can sell a non-Steam game key on other store fronts for any price you want.

This is what is being alleged in court by only a handful of developers but there are countless examples of the exact opposite thing being true.

Good grief, Tim Sweeney is such an insufferable cunt.

which just proves the overhead is reasoable

also pretty sure there are programs for true indie devs to reduce that price

all the actual good games on steam seem to do fine

i want anyone saying their game isn’t getting a fair shake on steam to post it

if it’s actually not trash i’ll buy it

First mover advantage is the biggest reason.

But they've been able to maintain it just by not being shitty.

I am running pi-hole. Seems strange that an archive site would be blocked.

Man if I were Steam's PR guy I would nor resist making fun of Sweeney all day long.

If you want to kiss valves' ass, be my guest. A company with 300 or so employees making a 3-4 billion profit last year is the same as Uber. Everyone's just a contractor and should be happy they use the platform. I'm not arguing if walmart or amazon is better. They both suck and they're stores. Valve has a nice history of suck as well as all the rest, everyone turns a blind eye to this. So I'm not going to pretend they're the good guys.

They don't have to, Valve can do nothing and Sweeney keeps making himself look like a whiny idiot.

Stop literally taking my money by making me work hard on my project.

What a mega loser....

IDK why, he has plenty of money lol

It's too bad, I really like his early work. Jill of the Jungle, Epic Pinball, Jazz the Jackrabbit, Tyrian, all the Unreal Tournament games, Unreal Engine 1/2/3

I've heard some things about some of these archive sites using visitor connections to carry out DDoS attacks. Couldn't find anything with a quick search, but it's the reason some threadiverse instances ban links to these sites outright.

Having too much money insulates you from having to find out

Greed

They must've changed their tone recently, because I've read an actual leaked court document, and the Valve representative / employee states (very defensively) that this is what they did. There's accounts of developers confirming this as well, including apparently in the (secret?) contract you sign when you sign up as a developer with Steam.

Classic Valve strategy:
Do nothing
Win.
Profit.
GabeN buys new megayatch

You might even say he's an epic loser...

30% used to be the standard, all consoles took 30%, Apple and Google took 30%, and all the PC game storefronts did. Sweeney doesn't give a shit about saving anyone money but himself. He's been on a decade long crusade to avoid paying these fees and will say whatever he can to make them go away or get lower.