▲ 190 ▼ Tim Sweeney: "Besides taking 30%, they’re [Valve] also taking a potentially even larger fraction of developers’ revenue and livelihood by undermining their business with these AI hate campaigns." (archive.ph) submitted 1 week ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 122 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 16 points 1 week ago (2 children) he can just not use steam permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 child) It's the eternal dilemma for game devs. They loathe the 30% cut (even though it's the same for every console, except you don't have any choice there) but at the same time steam does offer discoverability and platform features the devs and gamers love. I would have loved if Epic could compete with steam, but they instead chose to just throw money at gamers instead. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] baines@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago which just proves the overhead is reasoable also pretty sure there are programs for true indie devs to reduce that price permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 child) It's the eternal dilemma for game devs. They loathe the 30% cut (even though it's the same for every console, except you don't have any choice there) but at the same time steam does offer discoverability and platform features the devs and gamers love. I would have loved if Epic could compete with steam, but they instead chose to just throw money at gamers instead. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] baines@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago which just proves the overhead is reasoable also pretty sure there are programs for true indie devs to reduce that price permalink fedilink source parent
[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago which just proves the overhead is reasoable also pretty sure there are programs for true indie devs to reduce that price permalink fedilink source parent