Most of those points including what you called a blatant lie are directly extracted from their privacy policy. And bad elsewhere never justifiés mediocre here isn’t it.

Let’s read the license agreement : “Developers retain the right to sell the games through other channels.” The EU court confirms that the agreement and use of geographic restriction were harmful to competition by object.

• Take high profit
• Don’t allow you to resell any games
• Lock your localization for buying
• Resale your datas aggregate or not to relate your habits, usage patterns, and demographics of customers as a group or individual to 3rd party
• Can close your account without any notification
• Everything publishing on steam is the facto their property. This content can be use by Valve for steam offering, promotion, etc… Same for your workshop contributions.
• They use cookies, web beacons, pixels, ad tags to track you.
• They store your datas as long as they need to
• They share your personnal data with third party service providers … The prices charged are similar to those for games that you can buy outright. Prices are only increasing, with licences now exceeding $120 for some AAA. What is the benefit for the customer? Steam only represents 79 jobs. The price of infrastructure and servers has gone down, operating costs are going down, but Valve is not reducing its margin. About indie productions we can read everywhere about the financial difficulties faced by devs. At valve the per-employee profit are evaluated about $15 million per year (2021). So yes this is not fair and totally disproportionate.

The source is Evian.

For final fantasy V the cartridge cost was $15 each, total cost $37 millions for the SNES. They did a version for PS1 the CD Roms disk coast was 2$ for each. It was so that expensive that Sierra did phantasmagoria with 7 cdroms. Woldfenatein and Doom didn’t rise the success because of steam. Second hand market was killed by Steam, it even gone to court. And it is illegal to resale games due to their business model.

The entry ticket means billions… They lock the game market.

It was killed by steam, they did accelerate the transition and you have no right to transfer the game licence to anybody else. CDROM wasn’t expensive. Did you see the games price significantly cut since it is digital ? Owning a product doesn’t need to go through a physical media. You can buy digital version too.

No lock with a key bringing you back to steam, with a unique price. Even the music industry doesn’t impose that.

They cannot reasonably derive 30% when others take 12 at equal service and at the same time show record profits.

People usually don’t speak about the second hand market : how many shops have they closed ? How many were laid off ?

A key that will send you where ? On steam. It is just a way to keep the Devs captive. 30% is absolutely insane specially for a licence, not something that you own.

Yes but they cut off their margins. As Microsoft did.

Steam key is not an advantage. It is a means of retention to keep a seller captive. A company should be free to sell its game in any way at any price without any restriction coming from one vendor.

Apple and google take half of that with a great visibility. Microsoft takes 30% of sales made through the digital store. Howevee, for PC releases, Xbox shifted to 12% in line with Epic’s revenue-sharing model. So I doubt that everybody is as glad as you pretend. Where did you get that BTW ?

They was selling on their websites. There was also shops and a second hand market that this platform killed.

The problem does not come from other plateforms but from the abuse of dominant position.

Yes. They did that decades without sharing their profits.

Devs are happy to loose 30% ? Uhrffdruhehu jirddrhuduh

Apple and Google commissions are around 15%.

Did you ever read their terms of use ? This company is not a work of charity. They collect all kind of datas about you. It is voracious capitalism.

And the share of Valve in the computer video game market is around 75% and even more than 80% in Europe. This company is clearly in a monopoly situation that prevents any competition. This situation is clearly undesirable.

Why so late ? Of course this should have been zone before. It’s a question of sécurité.