You’re drinking all the Microsoft Kool-Aid that the lawyers in paid bots have thrown out there on the internet. Valve has threatened the market dominance of large tech companies and there’s been a ton of negative press pushed for them lately.

There’s lots of platforms to release your game online Minecraft famously ditched steam and it’s one of the largest games of all time.

You can self-publish as a solo Dev and make one of the largest games of all time without steam. Tell me how that’s a monopoly.

You got fortnite out here on the epic game store. Also one of the largest games of all time no steam, no valve. Tell me that’s a monopoly.

You’ve got itch.io, Gog, Microsoft game store, epic game store, and there’s always the option to skip the PC market and go straight to Indy’s on consoles if you wanted. You have choices as a developer. Steam is just simply the best fucking one.