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Yeah, I subsequently saw that restriction in other comments, and that seems to significantly impact how "reasonable" the complaint is. The problem is I'm unclea
by olliej 3y ago
Yeah, I subsequently saw that restriction in other comments, and that seems to significantly impact how "reasonable" the complaint is. The problem is I'm unclear what part of steam "steam keys" are for - some comments imply it's the steam DRM mechanism? but you're implying there's ongoing operating costs so is it the cloud syncing or similar?
- HideousKojima 3y agoWhen you buy a Steam key for a game on a site other than Steam, you have to redeem it through Steam. The download of the game (and any future re-downloads, updates, and potentially multiplayer services) will be hosted by Steam.
- olliej 3y agoAh so it’s the mechanism you’d use if you made a game and wanted to let people buy directly from your own site (say) without just saying “look for us on steam!”? If you sell the steam key yourself do you manually pay valve or is that “free” and they assume you’re managing the payment?
- HideousKojima 3y agoIf you sell a Steam key on another site you actually get 100% of the revenue, no 30% cut to Steam. It's actually extremely generous
- olliej 3y agoThanks for the answer that’s what I was curious about, and yeah that does kind of make it seem reasonable to me tbh. “You get to use our download and syncing infrastructure but not pay us anything for that” is a good deal.