Comment by esclerofilo
4 years ago
Fragmentation and walled gardens are a false dichotomy. Steam is actually a great example of this, there are many other stores (Humble Bundle, Fanatical, GMG, whatever) that sell you Steam keys so you can keep your game library in one comfortable place.
Yes Steam are still perfectly comfortable staying at 30% as I said it's clearly a market driven level.
Steam keys sold off steam do not give valve a cut.
I wonder what a user is worth to Steam?
They didn’t have to acquire the user themselves and now they have more eyeballs on their service. How many of these users buy a few things later and make waiving the fee worth it?
Steams not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts.
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Right, they believe their store value is enough for them to compete with 0%.
Valve is definitely getting some kind of money out of the deal.
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