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by vatueil 2754 days ago
> you can generate steam keys and then sell those keys off platform (and take 100% of the revenue)

Which is significant, and missing from most of the discussions about Steam's revenue share. Game creators can generate as many keys to activate their game on Steam as they want at no cost, and sell them however they want. If you buy a game from Humble, Amazon, or any other website and receive a Steam game key, Valve doesn't receive any money from that purchase.