People can pirate games easily, publishers hate paying Steam their 30% cut. However despite this, people still spend a lot on Steam, and publishers still put th

People can pirate games easily, publishers hate paying Steam their 30% cut. However despite this, people still spend a lot on Steam, and publishers still put their stuff out of Steam. Even though it could be cheaper buying direct, or free by pirating. Turns out the publishers were just either greedy or naive and didn't split the 30% savings to encourage people to move off Steam, and the Steam pricing is low enough that people preferred it. The same cycle is happening with streaming services, they didn't learn that there is a cutting point where people just dont want to deal with your high priced, abusive shit. Netflix make almost $34 BILLION a year, and yet the most important thing for them is making it really hard for me to help my elderly parents from just using one of my many unused Netflix profiles. "Nickle and Diming" drives a lot of these folks to figure out an alternative. Because the pirate services aren't going to turn around and restrict my ability to watch on location, or number of streams or decide that they don't like my TV manufacturer anymore and disable the app.