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More than likely Valve has offered better deals to these larger companies to get them back in-house. It's very probable EA, Bethesda, Microsoft, etc. all have g
by ocdtrekkie 5y ago
More than likely Valve has offered better deals to these larger companies to get them back in-house. It's very probable EA, Bethesda, Microsoft, etc. all have gotten more favorable terms now, by proving they were willing to leave Steam and roll their own launcher.
- Ekaros 5y ago30% from 0 to 10 million 25% from 10 to 50 million and 20% from 50 million on. They might have even better deals, but at some point 20% for handling everything and supporting payments with potential of fraud, chargebacks etc. in nearly every country should start look like not horrible deal. Remembering what the retail margins were back in the day when they needed to make and ship physical boxes...
- xxs 5y ago>at some point 20% ... start look like not horrible deal Not, if you are Microsoft.
- Godel_unicode 5y agoPay 20% now, or be forced to spin out Xbox via anti-trust ruling in the future. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
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- tayo42 5y agoThat's 10 million dollars, that pays for a team of 10 people for 4 years.
- Ekaros 5y ago10 people in 4 years don't sound like a lot to setup and run support, distribution, payment integrations for let's say 100+ countries. Which many having unique payment providers.
- amatecha 5y agosource for these numbers?