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As a consumer, I don't care about this. Even if Valve's cut were lower, the prices would remain the same. I don't get a cheaper game, the publisher just gets a higher cut, so it doesn't directly benefit me.
Do you think you would get the same buggy mess if every single publisher had 30% more budget to work with?
What actually doesn't benefit you is the hundreds of millions being accumulated in gabbens bank account.
It's weird to me how people(are they?) here bend over backwards to defend a monopolistic drm platform like steam.
I get gamers like their games. But come on.
I think it's because there's no real competition and nobody wants to be buying DVDs (blu-rays?) nowadays.
Consider that the only other storefront that treats its' users with any sort of dignity is GoG and many major publishers would rather avoid it because it has a policy of being DRM free, so you lose out on a lot of games by sticking to GoG for everything.
You're left with Steam, Epic Games Store, and some other platforms nobody's ever heard of. Epic Games' policy is "we don't need a better store interface because it doesn't affect sales" and "there's no need to support Linux, nobody uses it". Steam has a good-enough UI and not only supports Linux for Linux-native games, but also integrates Proton (which Valve also develops) so you can play Windows games on Linux.
Sure Epic will take less of a cut from publishers, but I'll have an inferior experience and probably pay the same.