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Steam takes 30% cut, though?

• bogwog 9mo ago
  Yes, and that is also excessive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
  • panstromek 9mo ago
    I'm not judging that, it just seems to contradict the "But Steam shows us another model..." sentence, so I'm trying to make sense of that.
    • JKCalhoun 9mo ago
      You're right, I didn't know it was 30%. Checking an LLM, it sounds like they more or less all charge 30%. That's shit.
  • panstromek 9mo ago
    I have to respond to your point, though. Whether 30% cut is excessive depends on whether devs feel like they are getting a good deal. As far as I can tell, game developers don't seem to complain about Steam cut very much, it seems like the value you get is worth it. For example, this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/10wvgoo/do_you_think_steams_30_cut_is_fair/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/10wvgoo/do_you_think... seems like majority is positive about it, even though people debate. When Apple tax is brought up, there's almost never even a discussion there, it's pretty universally hated. Apple seems to have almost adveserial relationship to its developers. I deploy to App Store and I feel like I'm getting screwed. Even compared to Google, which takes the same cut, but does bahave a lot more nicely to its developers.
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