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I might be wrong (not a developer), but I thought within the official stores, in-app purchases were subject to 30%, as standard, going to the platform provider.

I might be wrong (not a developer), but I thought within the official stores, in-app purchases were subject to 30%, as standard, going to the platform provider. At least that's what I understand with regard to Apple and Google stores.

pram 5y ago
You can install software on Windows and MacOS outside of the app stores jfyi
- zrobotics 5y ago
  I mean, you can also do that on Android; in fact Epic was doing that for quite a while with fortnite.
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - pram 5y ago
    Yes, inarguably true, my omission wasn't implying otherwise.
- wongarsu 5y ago
  But now you can have your Windows Store presence and still keep all your money. Of course that's easy to offer while nobody uses the Windows Store, but e.g. on MacOS that would be quite a big deal.
- rufus_foreman 5y ago
  But more and more applications can only be installed through the app stores on those platforms. That's the issue.
  - canadianfella 5y ago
    Why?
jmull 5y ago
I see now… the Microsoft store will let publishers collect payments in alternative ways. That’s well and good, but I don’t see that as a big deal because the microsoft app store isn’t that important. The problem with the Apple ios app store isn’t that they have a specific, restricted payments mechanism. It’s that it’s the only practical way for developers to distribute native software to iOS devices.
- flumpcakes 5y ago
  I think this is important to Microsoft, and actually quite a smart move. By letting other people use the Microsoft/Windows Store app natively built into windows, with their own billing infrastructure, they basically kill off any reason to have other applications for buying/installing software. Imagine if Steam allowed Blizzard/Activision/EA to sell their games on the Steam store, and as long as they pay their own hosting/billing infrastructure costs, Valve takes no cut? I think that would immediately kill the need for EA/Ubisoft/Blizzard/etc. to ever need their own applications to sell software.
  - TingPing 5y ago
    They still get value from their apps, those won't go away.

pram 5y ago

You can install software on Windows and MacOS outside of the app stores jfyi

zrobotics 5y ago
I mean, you can also do that on Android; in fact Epic was doing that for quite a while with fortnite.
- deleted 5y ago
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- pram 5y ago
  Yes, inarguably true, my omission wasn't implying otherwise.
wongarsu 5y ago
But now you can have your Windows Store presence and still keep all your money. Of course that's easy to offer while nobody uses the Windows Store, but e.g. on MacOS that would be quite a big deal.
rufus_foreman 5y ago
But more and more applications can only be installed through the app stores on those platforms. That's the issue.
- canadianfella 5y ago
  Why?

jmull 5y ago

I see now… the Microsoft store will let publishers collect payments in alternative ways. That’s well and good, but I don’t see that as a big deal because the microsoft app store isn’t that important. The problem with the Apple ios app store isn’t that they have a specific, restricted payments mechanism. It’s that it’s the only practical way for developers to distribute native software to iOS devices.

flumpcakes 5y ago
I think this is important to Microsoft, and actually quite a smart move. By letting other people use the Microsoft/Windows Store app natively built into windows, with their own billing infrastructure, they basically kill off any reason to have other applications for buying/installing software. Imagine if Steam allowed Blizzard/Activision/EA to sell their games on the Steam store, and as long as they pay their own hosting/billing infrastructure costs, Valve takes no cut? I think that would immediately kill the need for EA/Ubisoft/Blizzard/etc. to ever need their own applications to sell software.
- TingPing 5y ago
  They still get value from their apps, those won't go away.