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  • And is abuse of dominant position when you control +80% of the market.

    If a dev want a profit of 10us for game sold, it’s has to sell as 13us on steam. But if I open a marketplace and only charge 10% they could sell it for 12, getting a better margin selling for less, but they can’t if they want to use steam too. That affect players because cheaper options are not available, affect devs because they have less option, affect other stores because they can grow up competing on price.

    And that’s only possible because of Steam dominant position, because steam can strongarm devs into getting the same price as their competitors without reducing their 30% slice.