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[–] Octocopter 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

No matter how much your feelings get hurt, the simple truth is developers would not go to Epic in such a way unless the MONEY is there.

What we know Valve has been doing is increasing the cut they take from sales on their platform even when said game/product does not use steam services beyond drm management and market platform.

If Valve had/has more competition they cant enforce such a large cut anymore making it more economically feasible for Devs and publishers to chose them over other platforms for sale.

Keep crying about "Valve didn't do shit" when they drove this issue in the first place. GOG, Epic, Origin, Uplay, and other non western focused platforms will keep doing what they do.

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[–] ArchmageMordenkainen 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

No matter how much your feelings get hurt, the simple truth is developers would not go to Epic in such a way unless the MONEY is there.

Yes, exactly. And if they're not going to Epic it's because they're making enough money on Steam that they don't give a shit about the huge cut.

What we know Valve has been doing is increasing the cut they take from sales on their platform even when said game/product does not use steam services beyond drm management and market platform.

And market platform is a very, very, big value-added bonus to developers, so they have every right to do that.

If Valve had/has more competition they cant enforce such a large cut anymore making it more economically feasible for Devs and publishers to chose them over other platforms for sale.

But Valve doesn't have more competition. Because, again, developers have signalled that they don't care enough about Valve's big percentage to switch. If they cared so much about the percentage they would switch en masse. They aren't switching en masse, because they've looked at cost/benefit analyses and concluded that the increased revenue and exposure they get from being on Steam is worth the high percentage they have to pay. There's nothing exploitive about charging high prices, certainly not when you're charging high prices for a valuable good.

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[–] Octocopter ago  (edited ago)

Yet so many seem to be getting triggered over the idea that developers are making any choice but steam. Just like you stated there is nothing exploitative about steam pushing a high sales cut the same can be said about epic being able to offer exclusivity deals. The publishers are making the choice that the Epic platform is best for them.

Too many people are blindly giving faith in steam saying they have no fault in devs NOT choosing them.