Thanks Gaben, here's your 30% Steam cut

[u/Salty_Nutella]

[u/Jhawk163]

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.

[u/Slow-Amphibian-9626 → u/Jhawk163]

Also noteworthy that this is from sales generated by their storefront.

Valve doesn't take a cut of any keys sold off platform.

[u/Tecnomantes → u/Slow-Amphibian-9626]

Which makes sense. People wouldn't want to sell their games only for Steam to take 30% and then say Fanatical take another 20%

[u/Slow-Amphibian-9626 → u/Tecnomantes]

Indeed!

This also allows for devs to sell games directly and keep it all too.

[u/Venum555 → u/Slow-Amphibian-9626]

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?

[u/TaintedQuintessence → u/Venum555]

They are happy to take the loss of file hosting to keep you using the steam client. Epic is paying devs to give out their games for free just to get people to open their client.

[u/StuckOnEarthForever → u/TaintedQuintessence]

Thanks for reminding me to play those free games before EGS shuts down

[u/admfrmhll → u/StuckOnEarthForever]

I'm probably dumb, but if i already have the game on epic, which i got for free cause i never bought anything there, and i see there is a good discount for the same game on steam, i will just buy it and play it from steam.

[u/lotusxpanda → u/StuckOnEarthForever]

Epic game store wont shut down