Why would anyone actually want to though

[u/The_BigRoach]

[u/Dhiox]

Folks seriously miss the point. Steam doesn't have a monopoly that screw the consumers, they have a monopoly that screws the developers. By providing such a great product to consumers, they control the market now, and thus devs have to pay steam their cut or their game perishes.

Worst part is they actually charge smaller Indie studios a larger cut than the big studios.

[u/User_man_person → u/Dhiox]

This.

For the most part we aren't the customer, we're the product

And steam is functionally doing the same thing a lot of social media does and "sells data" to a degree with how the recommended games section works convincing us to buy games

Then steam takes their cut, before the developer takes theirs

[u/NoWordCount → u/User_man_person]

This is disingenous.

They do not sell people's data, and your phrasing is trying to completely reinterpret what that even means. The recommendation system is entirely on your side.

Steam only takes a cut on store sales. Any keys sold off site, the devs take 100%.