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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by paulmd on Monday June 24, 2024 @10:42AM (#40776645)
Steam also leans on the same anticompetitive "most-favored nation" agreements as Amazon. Sure, you don't have to list on Steam... but if you do, you better not try to go around their cut and list elsewhere at a lower price, either.

They have very positive mindshare with gamers but at the end of the day gaben's not your buddy either.

Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by JohnnyMarcone on Monday June 24, 2024 @10:58AM (#40776836)
Steam lets you sell Steam keys directly or via a third party and they take a 0% cut. That's how places like greenman gaming, humble bundle, etc work. You still get to use all Steam's infrastructure but pay no fee.
Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by paulmd on Monday June 24, 2024 @11:15AM (#40777024)
that's a mechanism intended to grant keys to reviewers and such, you can't use that as a primary transaction mechanism. steam has an unspecified threshold at which they will kick you off the platform for abusing that, they aren't there to be a free delivery platform for external sales and if it makes up a plurality of your sales they'll pull the plug.

you'll note humble bundle isn't literally the only sales those publishers make on those games, or even a majority of their sales, and it's also something that's specially blessed by valve. if you pull that as a random shit publisher not through humble bundle you'll get kicked off.

Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by inexcf on Monday June 24, 2024 @11:05AM (#40776922)
But you can sell steam keys with Valve taking a 0% cut.
Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by jeffhuys on Monday June 24, 2024 @11:51AM (#40777546)
See the 2 sibling comments 10 mins before you