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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

If games company's could make more money by not releasing on Steam, they would. The fact that they accept the 30% cut means that Steam is in fact leading to more sales for those developers and thus earns its cut. No one HAS to sell their product on Steam, PC's are a completely open marketplace