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30% is too much! Clearly Steam doesn't need that much to operate (the percentage of each sale that go to Valve)
What's with this obsession over Valve making profit? Should they never expand or develop new things? BTW tell your boss I want Unreal back
I'd rather see the developers of the game profit before the storefront
Yes and before Steam the Publisher kept 60%, 30% is fine
That's like arguing the guy who beats his wife isn't so bad because he used to cut on her too, but stopped. It should be 10% max for a store. And publishers all take too big a cut as well
What math are you basing 10% off of? Because that's grossly undervalues the service Valve provides between a store, community hub, unintrusive optional DRM, modding platform and more