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human
ELI5:What is the financial benefit to EA for not selling games on Steam?
gpt
Valve takes a ~30% cut of every game sold on Steam. That 30% is a whole lot of money when you're settling millions of every game you put out. It's so much money that the expense of creating and maintaining your own distribution platform STILL saves you money.