Just lower the cut from 30% to something more competitive and put an end to the horror.
Why can't they just lower the cut?
Nathan Miller
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Christian Perez
they can probably wait out Epic Tengames
you don't expect the 88/12 split to last forever, do you
Samuel Ross
1. 30% is the standard everywhere, not just Steam. 2. Steam provides more than just servers and a payment platform (and still those two things are pretty expensive to maintain)
3. They can lower the cut to 0% and still that wouldn't stop Epic because they want to get rid to Steam.
The 30% cut is just a convenient excuse for greedy developers to get consumers behind them.
Jaxson Brown
Valve drones say it's the features - like the recent online stuff
To those steam drones: How does that help single player only games you retards?
Noah Bennett
But roblox takes over 70% and you no one gives a shit
Luis Perez
Why, giving more money to the publisher won't help devs
Anthony Barnes
>you don't expect the 88/12 split to last forever, do you
There is literally no reason why it can't last forever. Neither Epic nor Steam actually DOES anything, they're just middlemen. I bet their businesses would still be profitable with a 2% cut.
Benjamin Russell
>1. 30% is the standard everywhere
gog.com
>emoving FPP is not a decision we make lightly, but by making this change, we will be able to offer better conditions to game creators, which — in turn — will allow us to offer you more curated classic games and new releases. All DRM-free.
Discord, Epic and GoG offer better than 30%, it's no longer the standard, Valve drone
Juan Sullivan
>Give soulless corporation choice between more or less money
They will always pick more you dumbass, they don't give a shit about consumers or devs
Daniel Sanchez
Because they can't afford to, because running a platform with tens of millions of concurrent users costs a fuckton of money. They provide developers with FAR more systems than Epic do, from APIs to even basic things like user forums. None of that stuff runs on magic pixie dust. Call me when Epic offer anything more than a basic storefront and can still operate on a 12% cut. That'll literally never happen of course.
The only people who get fucked over are end users, who get an inferior platform in exchange for publishers getting more money. I'm not surprised to see ResetEra corporate shill trannies OR Yea Forums contrarians defending this.