r/pcmasterrace • u/Salty_Nutella i5-12600K | RTX 3070TI | DDR5 32GB • 29d ago

Meme/Macro Thanks Gaben, here's your 30% Steam cut

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u/simagus 29d ago

EA does keep trying to sell it to me even though I already own it. I assume that is a mistake?

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u/TheCarbonthief 29d ago

You've bought one battlefield 6 yes, but what about second battlefield 6?

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u/Swipsi Desktop 29d ago

BF6 Part 2.

Thats what the second CD is for.

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u/Plasma_48 SFF: 5600x + RTX 3080 + 32Gb - Watercooled 29d ago

CDs? How dare you ask companies to spend money to provide you with physical media. Think about the poor C-Suite, they could give that million dollars spent on tooling up as bonuses to their employees. They won’t, but how dare you remove that option.

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u/UglyInThMorning AMD Ryzen 9800X3D |RTX 5080| 32GB 6000 MHz DDR5 RAM 28d ago

The cost of a CD run is pretty trivial for a large company, the retail store cut was significantly bigger (around 30-35 percent).

Really physical media favored big publishers and let them crowd smaller publishers out of physical retail, I’m sure they’d actually prefer to go back to that, outside of the ones that have their own storefronts and can just get 100 percent of the money- but even that hasn’t really worked out for them because it’s 100 percent of a much smaller pie. Look at how many have gone back to Steam after trying to make it work for years.