That’s for other sites that sell Steam keys, which obviously use Steam infrastructure hence the limitation. If you sell your game on Steam and other real platforms, like GOG, Epic or Uplay (or whatever it’s called these days), you can set the price you want.
Of course Steam offers a lot more functionality, and many devs choose to tie their games to Steam because of that, not because Steam forces them to do it.
However, Wolfire, the developer of Overgrowth tried to sell non Steam key versions on other store fronts at a lower price due to those stores having a lower. Valve told them Overgrowth would be removed from Steam if he proceeded in doing so.
They are involved in an ongoing class action suit against valve over this. If this were just a misreading of the terms, it would not have been an ongoing suit for the last couple of years.
That’s for other sites that sell Steam keys, which obviously use Steam infrastructure hence the limitation. If you sell your game on Steam and other real platforms, like GOG, Epic or Uplay (or whatever it’s called these days), you can set the price you want.
Of course Steam offers a lot more functionality, and many devs choose to tie their games to Steam because of that, not because Steam forces them to do it.
The steam key part is what is publicly available.
However, Wolfire, the developer of Overgrowth tried to sell non Steam key versions on other store fronts at a lower price due to those stores having a lower. Valve told them Overgrowth would be removed from Steam if he proceeded in doing so.
They are involved in an ongoing class action suit against valve over this. If this were just a misreading of the terms, it would not have been an ongoing suit for the last couple of years.