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And you'd lose all of that.
Competition isn't possible? EGS is an active competitor that only takes 12% and they still can't get fucking anywhere because their store fucking sucks. GoG exists and also takes 30%, their store/launcher are ok, but they don't offer nearly as much for that 30%, but they make up for that with drm free games. There are other minor players out there, so competition is definitely possible, but not one of them offers a comparable product.
The only way steam would lower their cut is if someone came along and made a game store that actually offered a significant portion of the services steam offered and was about as good but also had a lower cut of sales. But good luck finding someone who can do all of that and also takes less than 30%.
You don't seem to understand what a monopoly is. Having some small competition that's not ever going to threaten you because you can leverage your dominant position is also a case of a monopoly.
Epic poured billions of Fortnite money with little to show for it. How is anyone going to compete with a platform that most gamers have all of their games on? This is why they need to be broken up or brought to order via regulations. Companies are not your friends.
Yes, Into fortnite, not EGS. The eggs spent all their money on timed exclusives instead of a better product, and that's why they failed to make a steam competitor.
Those free games weren't actually free, Epic paid for them, you know.
Oh, I know. I got exactly 1 free game from EGS, which I promptly bought on stream myself once I realized that EGS had no offline mode (so the game I had been playing refused to launch during an Internet outage).
And that's one of the many reasons EGS isn't able to get a significant market share, because as I said initially, EGS fucking sucks. If they spent half as much on improving the store as they do for timed exclusives and trying to lure people in with free games, they might actually get somewhere.