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Valve bans developers from selling their games cheaper on other platforms. So if those services want to take a smaller cut than valve does, so Devs can sell their games cheaper on their platform, they can’t or they lose access to steam, by far the biggest platform.

This is blatant monopolistic bullshit.

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Localhorst86@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Valve bans developers from selling their games cheaper on other platforms

I’ve just checked their steamworks partner documentation. This only applies to steam keys.
partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

You should use Steam Keys to sell your game on other stores in a similar way to how you sell your game on Steam. It is important that you don’t give Steam customers a worse deal than Steam Key purchasers.
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It’s OK to run a discount for Steam Keys on different stores at different times as long as you plan to give a comparable offer to Steam customers within a reasonable amount of time.

That, imho, is quite reasonable, because Valve provides these keys to the developer free of charge, i.e. the developer does not have to pay 30% commission on these keys.

Developers are free to sell their games on other storefronts (like Epic or GOG) for a lower price than they do on steam, permanently.

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