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Steam takes 30 percent while developers do the work

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Becoming a digital landlord is the greatest business model ever conceived. Steam routinely takes a flat thirty percent of nearly every sale on its platform, earning billions annually primarily by letting other developers do all the hard work while they manage server bandwidth.

Steam takes 30 percent while developers do the work
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