A new Dutch class action has been filed against Valve Corporation, the company behind Steam. The case is brought by the Stichting Consumenten Competition Claims (CCC), which has launched the proceedings under the name GameClaim. The foundation acts on behalf of all Dutch PC gamers who have purchased games through Steam or other PC distribution platforms since 2013, IGN Benelux reports.
No-one is forcing certain titles to only release on Steam, that is the developer/publisher’s choice, to make their own lives less complicated. Perhaps they’ve run the numbers and reckon that Steam’s cut is cheaper than doing all the infrastructure (and everything else steam does) themselves?
Your argument essentially boils down to; You’re angry that Etsy is a “monopoly” because the guy who sells particular shirts you like only sells via an Etsy storefront thing to make his own life simpler.