https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ga...evs-say-steam-earns-its-30-percent-cut-survey
Epic Games competition is to select the indies from top tier devs, once they have AAA games, they will be more strict.
Competitors such as Epic Store wont even allow these devs to sell their games. That's the harsh truth.
I think its from a developers standpoint and lately you hear a lot of devs that whenever they have problems or questions about API they do not hear back from them. On the other hand you have bigger devs who directly get an answer.
Years and years of campaigning on social media and on dev cons by Galyonkin.
A) the question wasn't if Steam did MORE than other stores, they may well say other stores don't do enough to deserve it either.
Shit ton of people eat at McDonald's every day but that doesn't mean it's good quality
Some are leaving but the reality is they are a giant. It's like releasing games on a console and having them censored but they don't have much choice if that console sold much more than the others.
And yet most will continue to sell on steam. I think that fact alone says it all
If the epic store wants to compete on its own merits than great but as soon as they buy timed exclusivity than it becomes not acceptable.
No. You upload your build on Steam, add SteamAPIs if you want for free (CloudSaves, Workshop support, Streaming stuff etc.) and set the price yourself. For every copy sold you get 70% and Valve gets 30% for their services (Downloadservers all over the world, API, Linux-stuff, Userbase) etc.
Steam like the apple store, google play, console shops etc take 30% of the direct revenue.
Not at all. Devs pay Valve 100 dollars to sell their games on Steam. Valve gives the devs 70 percent of the revenue of all game sales on Steam, and doesn't charge for anything else.
They probably think Sony, MS and Nintendo don't justify the fee either. You just don't have another storefront option on console.
This just proves exactly the opposite. Steam does more than enough to justify their cut.This is why:
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Thanks.
Yes. I would love for Sony to offer the same customer service that Valve has, but they are not on the same level.
Some of you guys keep tripping over your own arguments. Epic offers anticonsumer experience (for now). They obviously offer a pro dev experience. (LOL at the guy who mentioned Proton as a boon for devs. On the surface it would seem to be but Linux sku purchases are simply too small even if Proton cuts down the customer service calls and emails in half)
Pretty sure devs get $$$ for having their games on ps plus.
I mean they dont have to develop an extra Linux version if they planned to develop one.
Okay, but explain to me in the long-run how a deliberately anti-consumer experience can really be pro-dev? It's like having the nicest market stand in the world, where everyone would like to sell...and having no customers to sell to, because you built it in the middle of a desert.
