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Valve doesn't overcharge me.
They provide an excellent user experience. They have one of the few stores where you can actually get reliable user reviews. Their return policies are generous. I've never had any problems with fraud or scams. Their search and recommendation functions are pretty good.
To me, that's a great deal and they've earned every penny of their markup.
Vale literally and probably does and has. 30% of revenue is not a reasonable fee for basically anything. That's a Mafia markup.
Like lmfao, it takes dozens to hundred of devs like 5-7 years to make a game like Baldur's Gate, and you think that Valve deserves 30% of all of their sales for managing the same basic storefront they built 20 years ago.
That's absurd.
And if their percentage was unreasonably high, their competitors would sell at lower prices. Strangely, they don't. Which tells us that Tim's complaints are nothing but bullshit.
They don't because they are not allowed to. Valve makes game developers sign a contract that if they want their game on Valve, they cannot put it at a lower price on any other store.