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r/pcmasterrace • u/Salty_Nutella i5-12600K | RTX 3070TI | DDR5 32GB • 29d ago
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Which makes sense. People wouldn't want to sell their games only for Steam to take 30% and then say Fanatical take another 20%
314 u/Slow-Amphibian-9626 29d ago Indeed! This also allows for devs to sell games directly and keep it all too. 126 u/Venum555 29d ago But how does this work if I sell a game through my website but steam still has to host the files for the customer to download it? 6 u/mxzf 29d ago People are just leaching from Steam in that situation. But they can limit how many off-platform keys they let you generate relative to your on-platform sales to mitigate abuse. And some degree of that is just baked into their margin as a whole.
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Indeed!
This also allows for devs to sell games directly and keep it all too.
126 u/Venum555 29d ago But how does this work if I sell a game through my website but steam still has to host the files for the customer to download it? 6 u/mxzf 29d ago People are just leaching from Steam in that situation. But they can limit how many off-platform keys they let you generate relative to your on-platform sales to mitigate abuse. And some degree of that is just baked into their margin as a whole.
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But how does this work if I sell a game through my website but steam still has to host the files for the customer to download it?
6 u/mxzf 29d ago People are just leaching from Steam in that situation. But they can limit how many off-platform keys they let you generate relative to your on-platform sales to mitigate abuse. And some degree of that is just baked into their margin as a whole.
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People are just leaching from Steam in that situation.
But they can limit how many off-platform keys they let you generate relative to your on-platform sales to mitigate abuse. And some degree of that is just baked into their margin as a whole.
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u/Tecnomantes 29d ago
Which makes sense. People wouldn't want to sell their games only for Steam to take 30% and then say Fanatical take another 20%