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That doesn’t make sense. Steam takes the same cut. I’m sure all of the vendors do.
Not for cyberpunk 2077 on GoG, Assassin Creed [stuff] on uPlay, whatever EA thing EA is selling on Origin etc. Also, you can sell steam keys for your own gane, on your own store, without having to pay Valve.
Epic made a whole selling point of taking less
They are also a dickbag company with a garbage platform.
Doesn’t matter. Not about the quality, nor the morons downvoting me. The conversation is about percentage and a misconception. Steam takes 30%. PlayStation takes 30%. Same with Microsoft and probably Nintendo. 30% is also the "small" portion Google and Apple take on their platforms. I only know of Epic and GoG that take less. We're talking about numerical fact, not opinion, and I can't help but notice it's the platforms that are comfortable having a monopoly that take 30% while the ones that publicly promote competition (or at least claim to, to be fair) that take less.
They slipped my mind. Unfortunately I think they’ll remain the only ones.
It's equally stupid that we put up with their rent seeking.
Epic’s cut is 10%
Yea I’d forgotten about Epic.