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[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Steam is amazing because of that 30%. That money goes into features that attract users which in turn brings publishers.

No other store has invested so much money on their platform. If you take that 30% off, you defund development.

That said, Steam has different percentage tiers for different amounts of sales. That could obviously be better or refined to give indies a better chance.

But I'm more than happy when Steam takes big chunk out of Rockstar, EA and Ubisoft for example.