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Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It costs a LOT to build a global cdn with the uptime steam has. That 30% is totally justified as a platform fee imo

Especially now with cloud storage and software development costs being so high.

I mean I see your point for sure, but I also see why consistency matters too. Why would valve "punish" someone for doing well? Those big titles are also great for revenue on their side too so honestly selling more units would be even more justifiable to lower the revenue split (from a business perspective on valves side)

Idk. Just thinking out loud I guess.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    That 30% is totally justified as a platform fee imo

    and yet everybody hates on Apple's 30% cut...

    Why would valve "punish" someone for doing well?

    maybe it could be like how rich people are taxed more? (at least if rich people paid their taxes in the first place)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Valve provides a whole lot more developer infrastructure than Apple. Now a good argument may be that you don't use it all, but it is still provided to all.

    Also the class of games on steam take up so much more space than most everything on the apple store.

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