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Steam set a 30% rate years before the App Store or Play Store even existed, and the same rate is used across the industry in both console stores and physical st
by nodamage 6y ago
Steam set a 30% rate years before the App Store or Play Store even existed, and the same rate is used across the industry in both console stores and physical stores. Accusing Apple and Google of colluding on pricing requires an enormous misunderstanding of what collusion actually means.
- supernova87a 6y agoI think the person is confused about prices settling at the same level with collusion. And the history as you point out. By their logic, all the supermarkets in my neighborhood are colluding on the price of tomatoes.
- pas 6y agoBut installing software on Windows is not a problem. You can put your game in the Windows app store. There are multiple (gaming) "app store" things on Windows. Steam has a 30% cut because it's so big that the smaller stores don't move the needle much. So there's no real market force pushing prices down, because the other offerings are just not substitutes. (Eg. there's GOG Galaxy, the other ones are too tied to certain publishers.)