What I want to know is, is you guys are so confident in your game then why are you even afraid of giving up a few thousand dollars? You make this big deal about small indies are perfectly able to create good games. Then what is even the problem? Let’s say you make a game and sell for 15 dollars. Then let’s assume that valve takes 30% and epic it’s 5%. Then let’s assume that there is a 40% tax (the exact number will depend on where you live of course).
That means that for each 15 dollars you make about 5.85$. In order to make back 3 thousand dollars you only need to sell roughly 500 copies. If all of you are as talented as you claim to be then selling a mere 500 copies would be very trivial to do. So what are you even afraid of?