3 ms·
It's not about buyers, but publishers. If a publisher gets 95% of revenue by being exclusively marketed by MS, versus 70% on Steam, they might team up with MS i
by bitL 8y ago
It's not about buyers, but publishers. If a publisher gets 95% of revenue by being exclusively marketed by MS, versus 70% on Steam, they might team up with MS instead. Surely if MS dominates the space after some time, they increase fee, but nobody thinks more than a quarter-two ahead in gaming industry.
- chipperyman573 8y agoI think in most cases you're correct, but store exclusives are somewhat common right now, and users tend to hate it (google "metro exodus controversy" and you'll see what I mean - and that wasn't even exclusive to one store, you just got a discount for buying it from Epic). That said, I don't have access to any data about sales - it's possible that just as many people buy it regardless of what store it's sold on. But I would suspect that is unlikely given how easy it is to pirate something and gamers' tendencies to believe they're owed a game.