How does steam pay for cloud storage?

[Ghost_Ship_Supreme]

Maintaining all those servers must cost alot... how does steam, and other platforms afford to maintain them while keeping it free for users?

[Nepgear]

Every time you buy something on Steam, Valve gets a cut (i.e. Steam is not free for users).

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

- All sales Steam gets their small cut.

- Market place, Game devs, and Steam get their cut, unless it's a user mod content, then either it's Steam and mod creator, or dev, mod creator, and Steam.

- Sales on Valves own games, such as half life series, portal series, l4d series, TFc, CS series, pretty much anything that was made, or owned by Valve.

I assume most profits comes from sales, then comes market sales, and I doubt valve games are coming anywhere close for several years for sales, so just makes most logical sense sales cut being the primary for income.

[nullable]

Steam generates hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for Valve. Adding desirable features for users (to keep spending money on Steam) is a good use for some of that revenue.