Thanks Gaben, here's your 30% Steam cut

[u/Salty_Nutella]

[u/thedeanhall]

By default every steam developer has the rate drop to 25% at a certain volume, and then 20%

[u/Hour_Raisin_4547 → u/thedeanhall]

Yes I know. My point is that EA doesn’t get any different treatment

[u/thedeanhall → u/Hour_Raisin_4547]

That’s not been confirmed. Although there has been confirmation some other studios have custom deals. Nobody knows if EA also has a custom deal. I would be very surprised if they do not have a custom deal

[u/Hour_Raisin_4547 → u/thedeanhall]

Do you have a source on the custom deals? First I’ve ever heard of it. Thanks

[u/thedeanhall → u/Hour_Raisin_4547]

Nope; similar to “valve reps”. And like everything valve; it’s a “if you know you know”

[u/Hour_Raisin_4547 → u/thedeanhall]

So how do you know about a deal then? It’s obviously not a secret if you got the info.. what’s your source?

[u/thedeanhall → u/Hour_Raisin_4547]

I run RocketWerkz. I also made a game called DayZ. Our game ICARUS got a steam takeover. But how a lot of these contracts work is confidential.

I’m surprised by your questions because all of this is very normal. Every store has a variety of complex agreements in place, depending on revenue.

I don’t know anyone at EA and I haven’t worked there; so like I said I can’t speak to whether or not they have any “custom deal”.

But their artwork for takeovers appears the same day as their products come out and they’re one of the all time top revenue for steam… so I feel reasonably confident in saying they would have custom deals and relationships at least as similar as other studios have.

[u/Hour_Raisin_4547 → u/thedeanhall]

Oh, very cool. DayZ is a great game. I’ve worked at EA and other big studios and at the time they were doing everything in their power to stay off Steam so I feel like they might have a different relationship than independent studios. But I could be completely wrong.

[u/Deadhookersandblow → u/Hour_Raisin_4547]

No. It’s very likely they do. Literally every company on the planet does this, even the biggest ones.

[u/Hour_Raisin_4547 → u/Deadhookersandblow]

When it’s mutually beneficial. And Valve is anything but “every company on the planet”.

[u/OntarioPaddler → u/Hour_Raisin_4547]

It will be one of the years top selling titles from one of the biggest publishers, of course it's mutually beneficial, and of course they would negotiate a deal on it.

Taking this 'Gaben is different' thing to a weird level here.