• Charzard4261@programming.dev
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    5 days ago

    I’m with you on all of this. I’m familiar with this (am a game dev) and you’re 100% right that the biggest cost is game distribution. One thing though: it costs ~$100 to list a game on Steam, which is returned to you after it’s made a thousand or two.

    Honestly there’s nothing much valve can do to appease people, but I believe the most likely thing they can do is release data on how much distribution costs and give companies the ability to disable the “extra stuff” to save even a few percent of their revenue.

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      5 days ago

      One thing though: it costs ~$100 to list a game on Steam, which is returned to you after it’s made a thousand or two.

      Thanks for the input. Wasn’t aware of that, is this a recent thing?

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        It got added when they moved from Greenlight to the current system IIRC.

        Double checked and it’s called the “Steam Direct fee”, is $100 (+ potential taxes) and you get it back when the game makes $1,000 “Adjusted Gross Revenue”.