Thanks for the quick reply.
I know about the ridiculous 30% fee on steam. It is downright robbery.
I had started to avoid steam tbh but I got burnt several times for trying to go with direct purchases and support and eventually moved back to it (part of it was of course the kickstarter craze with products just never materializing).
So now I have resigned myself to just hoping that rising pressure from epic, gog and the recent move from microsoft to reduce fees will get steam to follow suit and stop robbing developers like that.