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  • But the customers don’t see this. You buy a $60 brand new game on epic vs steam vs nintendo vs prime vs anywhere else: the game isn’t more expensive on steam because of their fees. The game is still $60, the publisher and studio make less money. In fact steam doesn’t even set prices, the publisher does. Steam takes 30% to use the platform. Is that too much? Maybe, but this doesn’t hurt the customer, this hurts the people wanting the profits, mostly the game publishers.

    Taking this down to 10% won’t drop the price of the game, it reduces the amount of money steam gets. The publisher gets more money. That’s what changes. A few small indie games where the studio is also the publisher might drop the price, but they will be few and far between.