Despite facing increased competition in the space, not least from the Epic Games Store, Valve’s platform is synonymous with PC gaming. The service is estimated to have made $10.8 billion in revenue during 2024, a new record for the Half-Life giant. Since it entered the PC distribution space back in 2018, the rival Epic Games Store has been making headway – and $1.09 billion last year – but Steam is still undeniably dominant within the space.
Valve earns a large part of its money from taking a 20-30% cut of sales revenue from developers and publishers. Despite other storefronts opening with lower overheads, Steam has stuck with taking this slice of sales revenue, and in doing so, it has been argued that Valve is unfairly taking a decent chunk of the profits of developers and publishers.
This might change, depending on how an ongoing class-action lawsuit initiated by Wolfire Games goes, but for the time being, Valve is making money hand over fist selling games on Steam. The platform boasts over 132 million users, so it’s perfectly reasonable that developers and publishers feel they have to use Steam – and give away a slice of their revenue – in order to reach the largest audience possible.
No, I think you deserve to be insulted because you are talking out of your ass about something you didn’t read. Again, this is about the price veto policy. This is not about Steam Keys (here’s me hoping italics help with your dyslexia).
And yeah, I thought you meant runescape on the EGS not on their site. It doesn’t matter because it has zero bearing on the discussion, I only addressed it because you didn’t read the thing you’re talking about.
You started in with being extremely rude so I’m just gonna move to ignoring your other commentary now.
Shocking I know.
Sorry that my mean words hurt you more than Valve abusing you.
You are not the hero here. Just another jerk.