And yes, all those points you mention are happening, but having a huge chunk of your profits taken like that obviously aggravates it.
What does that 30% pay for? Do you know?
I know it pays for Gabens yacht fleet worth 1.5 billion lol. We do have rough numbers. We know their employees count and revenue, and that they are making an estimated 11 million per employee from an article by the financial Times. That doesn’t include data atorage but I doubt the cost of offering downloads is anywhere near there revenue. If you told me 1 billion (a tenth of their revenue), I’d laugh in your face.
I own more computer games on disc from physical stores than I do from steam.
But I do not trust the developer who originally brought the lawsuit
What dev? This is about a UK lawsuit on behalf of UK gamers. I can’t find anything about a devs involvement. Between this and the silly statistics, you just seem thoroughly uninformed on the subject.
Nobody is suing Nintendo, PlayStation, or Microsoft over this.
I want to point out that this is pure whataboutism, just like the OP. But what about epic, but what about nintendo. Bla bla bla. All of them deserve to get sued, stop defending the ones who it happens to just because you like their product.
I also never said
Then the proper response would be “yes, steam does deserve to get sued, epics behavior doesn’t even have anything to do with the subject, but they also deserve to get sued”. Like what’s your point then? Why make a bullet point of things steam does well if you aren’t trying to imply that they are “good enough to be allowed to abuse”.
I feel like you scanned right over half of what I did say.
We are both writing walls of text. I can make a list of things you keep scanning over as well.
Okay, but your stats are still wrong? Using AI wasn’t my point.
Is making 1 000 million in a year with something like 5% not catching up? Do you think any of these billion dollar stores are running at cost?
In what world does having a vampire sucking up 30% of your revenue not affect a company. It seems pretty easy to understand, but quantifying it would mean some pretty in depth studies and getting information from bankrupt companies. I do know most devs don’t like it. https://gdconf.com/article/gdc-state-of-the-industry-most-devs-feel-steam-s-30-cut-isn-t-justified-many-prefer-10-15/
And yes, all those points you mention are happening, but having a huge chunk of your profits taken like that obviously aggravates it.
I know it pays for Gabens yacht fleet worth 1.5 billion lol. We do have rough numbers. We know their employees count and revenue, and that they are making an estimated 11 million per employee from an article by the financial Times. That doesn’t include data atorage but I doubt the cost of offering downloads is anywhere near there revenue. If you told me 1 billion (a tenth of their revenue), I’d laugh in your face.
What are you on about? Stores don’t even stock physical discs for PC Games. How many of those are from the past 5 years? Last year had 95% of games sold digitally (PC and consoles). https://twicethebits.com/2025/06/19/the-shift-to-digital-gaming-why-physical-sales-are-declining/
What dev? This is about a UK lawsuit on behalf of UK gamers. I can’t find anything about a devs involvement. Between this and the silly statistics, you just seem thoroughly uninformed on the subject.
PlayStation is getting sued for it, the trial is for March. This is specifically about the 30% (https://www.catribunal.org.uk/cases/15277722-alex-neill-class-representative-limited)(https://woodsford.com/woodsford-funded-5bn-class-action-against-sony-playstation-gets-go-ahead-in-uk-competition-appeal-tribunal/).
I want to point out that this is pure whataboutism, just like the OP. But what about epic, but what about nintendo. Bla bla bla. All of them deserve to get sued, stop defending the ones who it happens to just because you like their product.
Then the proper response would be “yes, steam does deserve to get sued, epics behavior doesn’t even have anything to do with the subject, but they also deserve to get sued”. Like what’s your point then? Why make a bullet point of things steam does well if you aren’t trying to imply that they are “good enough to be allowed to abuse”.
We are both writing walls of text. I can make a list of things you keep scanning over as well.