• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    It’s still the market standard for digital stores, and if steam was greedy they could absolutely charge more with their market dominance.

    For comparison audible has audiobook market dominance, and takes a 75% cut. If you agree to make your audiobook audible exclusive, they’ll “only” take 60% of the profit, and many audiobook authors take that deal because getting an extra 15% cut on audible is worth more than the sales from other audiobook stores.

    Audible is what you get when a greedy corporation has market dominance, in comparison Steam’s cuts are very tame for all the benefits they give.