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Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You're right. Giving 30% for really fucking good platform services is way worse than having to find a publisher that takes in 70 to 90% of revenue and pushes devs to release unfinished games.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago*

    Yeah seriously. As a dev, that 30% cut gets you a lot of stuff with absolutely no additional charges. Trying to roll your own distribution for your downloads could exceed that 30% by itself after you:

    • Host the files somewhere that can be downloaded anywhere close to as fast as steam's servers
    • Handle payment processing fees
    • Develop and maintain a site with high reliability

    And that's only downloads. With steam you also get:

    • p2p networking tools
    • game server hosting
    • steam community integration
    • analytics
    • cloud saves
    • voip

    And like 50 other things. It's ridiculously good value unless you're developing some super low rent single player indie title. Even then, just having it available on steam will get you way more sales to make up for it.

    Sure, epic charges 10% but you basically only get distribution and some super half baked community features.

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