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Valve COO on Epic's Tim Sweeney "you mad bro?" when launching the Epic Store (repost, clarified was internal email) (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But it's not just content delivery, they have a lot of software engineers building and maintaining lots of things, such as:

Steam Input
Steam Link app
Proton - for Steam Deck and Linux

And a bunch more. That cut isn't just going into the coffers, it's being invested in the platform.

What does EGS do?

pay for exclusivity
give away games
twiddle their thumbs?

EGS basically wants to draw you in with the free games and exclusivity, but that's it. They have no actual draw to their platform. Valve invests in their platform, EGS just buys eyeballs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, Epic does a lot of sucky stuff. I think that their 12% cut, if they can sustain it, is good, but that isn't an endorsement for all the other things they do.

I'd also argue that Valve is, considering their market position, on the whole extremely light on anti-consumer practices, in a way that a publicly traded company likely wouldn't be.

I am not arguing that Valve is bad, I just believe that a lower cut, if it is sustainably doable, is a good thing. Since neither of us know their numbers (unless your pretty high up in Valve, in that case, Half Life 3 pls), it all comes down to assumptions in the end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

The 12% cut is there to attract developers to their platform. They know they're not going to sell nearly as many copies as Steam, so they need some reason for developers to list their games on EGS. If EGS caught up with Steam, I'm guessing that number would also go up, or they'd add on other nonsense fees to increase profit.

And yeah, a lower cut would be good for devs, but it might not be good for PC gaming (i.e. less investment into stuff like Steam Link). But I agree, I don't have the numbers, so I don't know how much of that cut is profit vs reinvested.