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> Ask anyone what % of their game sales comes from Steam vs their own website/itch/humble/epic.

What % of payments come through payment card companies vs. cash/crypto/checks/etc. ?

What does that have to do with what I said? I'm not talking about payment companies at all. 30% is for platforms, not payment companies.

It sounded like you were saying those platforms were justified in taking a 10× higher cut than payment companies because they provide services that developers would make fewer sales without and would have much more difficulty implementing and hosting themselves. But what makes payment companies not platforms? They seem similarly difficult to sell without, similarly difficult to reimplemement and host yourself, and just as valuable as store platforms for the same reasons you gave.

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