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In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Let's not describe this as "paying valve three bucks" because that's not accurate and is misleading.

It's paying valve 30% of your revenue.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're better off never learning how little of what you pay your food actually goes to the producer, then...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Shockingly I'm also mad about that. I suppose you support that situation?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They didn't frame it as "paying valve three bucks". They said "paying valve 3 bucks on my 10 dollar game". The phrase "paying pennies on the dollar" comes to mind as a common idiom for saying you're paying a small fraction of the total, and neither literally means nor implies paying actual pennies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Usually it does refer to paying less than 20% or so, yes. Not literal pennies, though.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It is misleading. It is 30% of the entire revenue of the game. And it is objective whether Valve deserves 30% of that revenue. It's also true that games aren't locked to the Steam platform and can absolutely make money outside of Valve's influence. History has shown though that it is less profitable then being inside the Steam ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Except that Steam allow their keys to be sold on other platforms and don't take a cut on those. So it is 30% on the key sold on steam, but 0% on the other storefront.

So there is no reason to not go on steam because it doesn't restrict you to steam.