Re:Apple rejects appeal from email app Hey
by dogma1138 on Friday June 19, 2020 @06:57PM
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Publishers pay for allowing retail key linkage and in most cases today you are buying Steam Keys from markets where these are sold in stores instead of a retail version and Steam gets a cut.
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Re:Apple rejects appeal from email app Hey
by sudosysgen on Friday June 19, 2020 @07:54PM
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Steam keys are meant to be a convenient tool for game developers to sell their game on other stores and at retail. Steam keys are free and can be activated by customers on Steam to grant a license to a product.
Valve provides the same free bandwidth and services to customers activating a Steam key that it provides to customers buying a license on Steam. We ask you to treat Steam customers no worse than customers buying Steam keys outside of Steam. While there is no fee to generate keys on Steam, we ask that partners use the service judiciously.
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keysIt seems like this is not the case.