Legally, they have to treat them differently, if Steam sells a game like BG3 and some government doesn’t like it, they have a PEGI rating to point to.

But if Steam sells a game like this without a rating from an age rating agency and a government doesn’t like it or requires ages verification for it, that’s on Valve.

This kind of “moderation” (read: censoring adult content) is something he doesn’t want.

What does that achieve? Devs/publishers can moderate their Steam forums, and it saves them money and time compared to hosting their own.

People probably think Valve is the “good guy” in the case of refunds because they made it a worldwide policy after the Australia case. Other game platforms have only offered refunds explicitly where required. Hell, PlayStation gets away with no refunds almost anywhere if you’ve downloaded the game.

Steam provides publishers/developers tools to moderate their forums.

It’s crazy that people are genuinely offended by low effort ragebait shovelware.

Eh, even if PC/component sales drop to zero, PC will still be the biggest platform with hundreds of millions of active users.

So you paid for them on PS5 but pirated them on PC? Great job telling Sony you don’t want PC versions.

Minecraft is an infiniminer clone, it should be shut down ASAP.

What profit? I can guarantee that Valve has spent far more in hiring hundreds of highly skilled full time contractors for 5+ years than they’ve made from the 3% of Steam’s users on Linux.

Obviously it’s a long term strategy for them to eventually make money but we’ve only gained from their investment.

The problem is these stores (Epic but also the Microsoft Store and Amazon’s PC game store) only come along because some executive says “hey what if instead of Valve taking a cut from most PC games, we took a cut from most PC games”, there’s 0 interest or intent for them to be competition (as seen by the exclusives) for Steam or improve the developer/user experience.

Any time these massive companies offer a cheaper subsidised alternative to any existing product it’s to push out the smaller players with less resources and build their own monopoly.