Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 16 hours agoThey take the same cut as companies that monopolize the app stores on their hardware.
They take more than other PC platforms.
Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 16 hours agoThey take the same cut as companies that monopolize the app stores on their hardware.
They take more than other PC platforms.
Stern@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
IIRC Gog takes 30% but not sure we can count them owing to what they distribute.
The only actual competitor store (i.e. not reselling steam keys) at present is Epic with its 88/12 split after a million in sales, and as far as I know it hasn’t been profitable since it opened in 2018, despite straight up giving away product and buying exclusives to try and build a base, so not really the best argument.
Obligatory LOL if we’re going to note either the EA or Ubisoft stores in this discussion. MS probably falls into that pile too but tbh haven’t looked into them much.