They can sell their games on other stores with a smaller cut (e.g. EGS) without any issues with Valve.
No, they can’t. Valve’s TOS forbid devs from offering lower prices on other stores. If not for this, a dev could list a game for $60 on Steam, $50 on Epic, and $42 on their own website and let the customer decide where to buy it from while making the same amount of money from either of these sales. Valve is not competing fairly.
If they didn’t have this rule, devs could list at a ridiculous price on Steam and sell on their store for a more reasonable price to take advantage of Steam’s marketing without paying. That’s unfair for Valve. Either list there and charge the same prices everywhere, or don’t.
I would be surprised if other stores didn’t have similar policies.
Steam also reserves the right to remove a game for any reason. If a developer does that they would have their game removed and probably receive a ban. There’s no reason for that policy other than price fixing to keep consumers from making an informed decision. Stop defending the multibillion dollar company.
The only time I’ve heard of that happening is if the key was purchased with a stolen credit card or something. Steam actually goes out of their way to retain access to purchased games that have been delisted by the dev.
They’re one of the better actors in this regard the industry. In most cases, they’ll side with the customer, which is exactly what you want a company to do.
Stop defending the multibillion dollar company.
I don’t care how much they’re worth, if they provide a good service, I’ll help clarify misunderstandings. I really don’t care if people and companies get rich, as long as they do it by making a good product people want.
Uhh that’s completely wrong. I’ve bought keys from tons of different stores (humble being the majn one) when there were sales going on for the game. All registered with steam keys.
All registered with steam keys.
So they’re not games on other stores, are they?
They are sold cheaper than on steam…the fuck are you talking about, literally you said they can’t sell them cheaper. And that’s completely false.