▲ 451 ▼ Valve's reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3.5 million per employee it makes Apple and Facebook look like a lemonade stand (www.pcgamer.com) submitted 1 year ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/steam@lemmy.ml 70 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 child) Iirc valve will even allow devs to generate as many steam keys as they want and sell them outside of steam for no cut whatsoever (and Steam will still provide support for the game on the launcher for those keys). And virtually no devs do it. They prefer to take the 30%. So that tells me that what they charge is more than fair to the devs permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Hugin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) Yeah generating a steam key to sell yourself isn't free but last time I made some it was less than a buck. I'm going on an old memory but I think it was $0.17 each. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago Incredibly cheap I’d say permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 child) Iirc valve will even allow devs to generate as many steam keys as they want and sell them outside of steam for no cut whatsoever (and Steam will still provide support for the game on the launcher for those keys). And virtually no devs do it. They prefer to take the 30%. So that tells me that what they charge is more than fair to the devs permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Hugin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) Yeah generating a steam key to sell yourself isn't free but last time I made some it was less than a buck. I'm going on an old memory but I think it was $0.17 each. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago Incredibly cheap I’d say permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) Yeah generating a steam key to sell yourself isn't free but last time I made some it was less than a buck. I'm going on an old memory but I think it was $0.17 each. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago Incredibly cheap I’d say permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago Incredibly cheap I’d say permalink fedilink source parent