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In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (3 children)

30% is more or less the standard. Not just in the games industry, but everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It's actually not the standard, the standard was iirc 70% for in-store at the time. These days I think it's closer to 50%, assuming no 3rd party losses/licensing.

Nintendo/Sony/Apple/etc are all 30% too, by the way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

and Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft charge the consumer extra for features like online play and cloud saves.

Personally, I think the standard should be reduced but Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft should start.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

The status quo is rarely a good reason for anything

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Epic is 12%. Yeah, Epic store sucks and all that. Whatever. There's two marketplaces that aren't first party. One takes 30% and one takes 12%. How is there a standard? You can't look to other markets or other distribution methods to compare it to, because they're all different with their own things.

Edit: GOG is 30% for indie developers (there's a little more to it than that, but basically that). It sounds like with other publishers/developers they negotiate contracts on a case-by-case basis and don't say what they get.