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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's well known that server infrastructure and software development is free

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I never said those things were free. I did say the platform is good, but their income is from the games sold on the platform that other people made.

I don't know what metric would properly capture money/time spent on infrastructure and servers, but I don't think it's "money per head" if that money is from games sold and doesn't strictly relate to how good their platform performs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

If games company's could make more money by not releasing on Steam, they would. The fact that they accept the 30% cut means that Steam is in fact leading to more sales for those developers and thus earns its cut. No one HAS to sell their product on Steam, PC's are a completely open marketplace