Hmmm, so you’re saying that being able to sell on steam is, for lack of a better word, valuable?

And then, as with everything else in life, you consider the price/value and determine if it makes sense to you?

How do you haplessly wander into it? I can’t even deliberately visit with the url, it just throws an error thru lemmy.world

“Absolutely, yes, 1000%.”

Then do just that? Unlike with Sony, Nintendo, Apple, MS ecosystems, the PC is an open platform, you don’t have to ask anyone’s permission to just start selling your stuff for it over the internet.

I’m no steam fanboy, we’ve been at odds ever since they decided to stop supporting Windows 8 and 7 and deliberately breaking the client so it stops working with those old systems, but there’s no denying that Steam does a bunch of things right.

All these Monopoly charges are just bitter competitors envious that they can’t just walk in throw some money and start getting market share from the PC market, they would actually have to put in an enormous amount of effort to to even approach all the functionality and feature set covered by Steam.

The PC is an open platform, you’re not obligated to anything, there are multiple storefronts which you can decide for or even go at it without using storefronts. Tell me again what are the alternative storefronts on the Xbox, PS, Nintendo, Apple and Android ecosystems?

And for the “if you’re not on steam you might as well not exist” crowd, isn’t that, like exactly that, the value that Steam brings to the table? You only need to decide if that’s worth the 30% cut they ask in return, like with any other purchase or contractual decision you make in your life.