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[–] echo64 113 points 7 months ago (81 children)

What's the efficiency in taking 30% of almost all game sales on a platform? I know we all love valve, but the efficiency here is having a store that everyone has to use if they want to make sales at all.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (14 children)

Which is exactly what Apple does with their iTunes store.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago

Apple ties their hardware to iTunes with no competition. Steam offer a platform which is better than every other piece of COMPETING software on a variety of hardware.

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