https://www.resetera.com/threads/me...ro-last-light-on-steam-launch-aligned.106558/
Steam is going to have to do something to answer this, they can't just continue to let Epic get all these big games as exclusives.
I mean from a business standpoint, if you were a developer/publisher and you have steam who takes a 30% cut of your money (or 25% for 10-50 million sales and 20% for anything over 50 million) vs Epic who takes a 12% cut and then PAYS you on top of that to get the game only on their store which would you go with?
not to mention, if you use the Unreal engine for your game, that 5% fee that you have to pay for the engine use? They take it out of their 12% cut if you sell it on their store, so it's a HUGE savings for developers to go with Epic over valve right now, especially since it doesn't really seem to be "hurting" sales numbers at all.
The people that like steam? It sucks for them, they are the ones getting screwed the most, but the bottom line for developers and publishers it makes no sense not to go with epic right now in terms of saving money and making more profit.
Valve absolutely has to answer this with something, they can't just ignore it and let them continue to poach all of these games.