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Every time I see this opinion being shared I just imagine a tiny, angry Tim Sweeney throwing a tantrum because Valve bad. Why? Because... Because I said so, okay?!

I just want to say I support your freedom to post your opinion, no matter how absolutely fucking terrible it is......

Valve provides unlimited bandwidth for the rest of eternity for your game in exchange for a refundable $100 deposit and 30% of sales, with exceedingly few rules regarding what you put on the store, all without ads, optional additional FREE revenue streams in trading cards and marketplace items, and free unlimited bandwidth for mods via workshop integration; not to mention free Multiplayer matchmaking and unlimited free steam keys you can give out or even sell on secondary markets with very few restrictions. Neither itch nor gamejolt can financially offer half of those features, and no other publishing platforms comes close to offering all of these features, much less all of these features at such a ridiculously low cut as valve takes.

The anticompetitive practice is, sell for the same price here or we won't sell your game? They don't want to be undercut, can't blame them for that.

If they forced exclusivity deals, sure that is anti competitive. If they dictated prices, that would be anticompetitive. If they forced users to buy bundles to get certain games, if they forced a subscription to access games, if they gobbled up every other game seller and closed them down....

We have seen a lot of bullshit in corpo land. I'm not saying valve is perfect, or I love and trust them, but this is pretty weak in terms of objections. I'd rather deal with valve than Microsoft. Then again I was saying that about Google 15 years ago, now a lot less so.