Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?
TehPers@beehaw.org 3 weeks agoValve’s cost of hosting is pennies.
Surely you can’t mean this literally. They host downloads of hundreds of GB that get served to tens of millions of users. The bandwidth costs alone are going to be insanely high, putting aside the storage costs as well.
But anyway, I’d love to see them lower it to 5%. I think if they can afford to do that, they should take the lead.
cristian64@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I guess they meant “pennies per game sale”, in which case 30% could be quite a generous cut. But, of course, buyers can download the game many times, and forever, so it’s really hard to measure what’s a fair cut.
To me, it’s not a monopoly because Steam doesn’t require exclusivity, and there are other stores (including physical a stores).