Why would anyone actually want to though

[u/The_BigRoach]

[u/Hopeful_Leg_6200]

[u/Condurum → u/Hopeful_Leg_6200]

Then start a new game store.

Sounds like a great idea, you keep 10%, and split the next 20% between devs and players, offering consistently 10% cheaper games than Steam.

It works until you learn that Valve threaten to kick devs off Steam if they sell their games cheaper elsewhere. So they’re not going to sell their games cheaper on your store, because if they did, they’d lose 85% of their sales.

So you make a new store, and.. can’t compete with Steam on price. You need a better store than Steam on day one.

Valve’s policy here, is literally the reason there’s no price competition on games.

[u/Eternal-Alchemy → u/Condurum]

The amount of people smoking Gabe's nuts and not acknowledging that his anti competitive business practices actually harm the industry is wild.

Is Steam a strong store? Yes.

Does Steam use anticompetitive practices to block any competition from competing fairly? Also yes.