That Steam, and others you mention, charge 30% categorically undermines the whinging about Apple’s 30% being out of line.
I’m also curious about people’s thoughts on Sony pulling CDPR’s Cyberpunk 2077 from their Playstation store.
Steam is the only one on that list that takes 30% that I know of. MS store went through a period where they would pay you to put your app there.
Certainly false - just like with streaming video, platforms will pay for exclusives from popular developers to force users to visit their stores.
Epic will, and this is what they want
> Almost every game on steam can be purchased somewhere else, like icth.io or the game's website. 30% is industry standard among monopolistic players (Google play store, Apple app store, Steam).
That is a very different use case