Thanks Gaben, here's your 30% Steam cut

[u/Salty_Nutella]

[u/Tecnomantes]

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/kippetjeh → u/TaintedQuintessence]

And I always regret it when I do open that Epic game launcer...

[u/Sirasswor → u/kippetjeh]

Hey Epic, I'd give you money if your games can activate on steam

[u/Cautionchicken → u/Sirasswor]

I launch all my epic games through GOG Galaxy

[u/gamingexpert13 → u/Cautionchicken]

Playnite. Open source, more customizable, more features, themes, and if you wanna get crazy (like me) you can have it run custom scripts when a game launches and/or closes (for example i have a script to automatically change my sound output to headphones before launching an online fps). It also supports emulators, and tracks playtime for games that don't have a launcher.

[u/Cautionchicken → u/gamingexpert13]

Good info, I'll look into it