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Without any flashy marketing campaigns or social media fanfare, Valve rolled out a routine Steam Client update containing a very simple line in the patch notes: “Improved Steam Client startup performance.”

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[–] goatbeard@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

FWIW Steam takes a 30% cut from sales

[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

And for that cut they provide hosting, cloud saves, promotion, distribution, community support, workshop availability, DLC handling, and a store page. The cut is also much less than what larger publishing companies charge for less service. Self publishing is very feasible on Steam.

[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As does every store, digital and physical, except EGS and Microsoft. That's the standard retail cut.