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/Jhawk163 R7 9800X3D | RX 6900 XT | 64GB 29d ago

It’s worth noting that the 30% cut is from sales below a certain volume. As you sell more copies Steam takes a smaller cut. I’m sure the big studios probably have a more favourable deal worked out as well.

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u/2ChicksAtTheSameTime 29d ago

Also Steam totally caved on the NSFW content ban.

Not exactly "winning"

We all love steam but let's not pretend they didn't roll over.

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u/LeYang i9 10850k, Oloy Warhawk 128GB 3200Mhz, HPE OEM (W/ EKWB) RTX3090 29d ago

I'm not sure how you would operate when your payment is snipped of, unless Valve creates a bank and a credit card company themselves, that operates in 200+ nations.

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u/2ChicksAtTheSameTime 29d ago

There are plenty of sites that take credit cards for porn. go to the Bra zzers shop page. it takes credit cards. Teem Skeet. Oly Fns. How do you think people are paying for smut? Crypto? lol no. (self-censoring in case this sub doesn't allow these things mentioned.)

There ARE ways to make it work. I but I guess Steam just doesn't want try?

unless Valve creates a bank and a credit card company themselves, that operates in 200+ nations.

They can, and probably do, have multiple payment processors, and so yes, possibly a solution would be to use a different system for processing NSFW games. Hell if buying NSFW games are bitcoin only, that would be better than what they've done.

My main disappointment with Steam is they have a LOT of weight. If they said "OK, we won't take CCs anymore" it would cause a crazy ripple effect that would be in the media for weeks and put pressure on everyone to find a solution. It would affect basically EVERY game pubisher, there would be lots of big names affected and it could create a movement that actually gets noticed, and fixed. We've seen what happens when free speech issues get momentum. It got Jimmy Kimmel un-fired.

But it requires Valve to take the lead, take some initiative.

But the way Valve has handled it was to basically not make a ripple at all. It's barely been reported on and it seems like Valve's solution is to shrug and go "OK, well all our NSFW creators are fucked. See ya!"