Epic made it very clear from the start they were trying to undercut Steam, not by being better, but by paying out developers to create exclusive games for the Epic store, something extremely hated on PC. Even on Steam you can still sell your games elsewhere too.
Steam also controls the larger markets share of PC gaming. Of course they’re going to have to price themselves competitively. Because why would you pay more for a platform that has way less users and a bad reputation?
You can actually just pay an almost 0% cut by delivering directly to your customers, but that’s exactly why you use a storefront to sell your game. You go where the customers are, and they are at Steam.
BTW, Sony, MS and Nintendo all suck, but at least they create jobs for devs.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
You’re link doesn’t make any sens. It doesn’t change anything, they all have massive studios with thousand of employees, while steam has sub 300 employees.
BTW I ACTUALLY worked with 3 studios in Montreal over the past 15 years. One had a quite successful game but they had to close anyway because they couldn’t secure funding for the following project. Meanwhile steam made hundreds of thousand of the game.
But I get it, you dont care really about games and devs, you care about convenience. Expect a major enshitification of games because IA shit will soon be the only way to make this industry profitable.
ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Unfortunately for your bad faith argument, I make games myself. And this kind of behaviour is absolutely detestable if you ask me. Engaging with people like this is actively doing damage to game developers. You aren’t automatically right for having been part in making a game once.
PC developers don’t work for Steam, they work for themselves or for a publisher. And the same massive studios that make games for consoles make them for PC too. Feel free to provide some actual stats that aren’t just your personal feeling on the topic rather than just saying “nuh-uh” while running off with the goalpost.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What does that has to do with anything?
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I’ll let you figure it out yourself. Hint: maybe a company that made 17 billions in a singlke year selling others people works could offer a bit more of the profit to those who actually created the product.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I mean, yeah, I would also like to live in a socialist world. However, we’re not, so we need to judge companies on a grade of existing world, not on a grade of luxury gay space communist one. And in our capitalist reality, it’s really unreasonable from a capital to not go for more capital. We also don’t judge companies by revenue per employee, at all, it’s not a thing that we do in a capitalist society. We sometimes congratulate them on winning at capitalism if the ratio is particularly high like in this case.
That aside, Steam is a product and a service, and 30% is very reasonable market rate for products and services they produce.