Epic Games Store is one of the few gaming platforms that charges well under 30% — adopting a 12% comission rate.
Itch is 10%, and isn’t run by a scumbag.
I forgot about Itch. The games on there are so weird
$903,000,000? This is just so greedy and dumb.
Is itch.io not a thing in the UK? Is GoG? No Micrsoft? No Robl-ox? I have many purchases on all of those platforms (except robl-ox), but Steam just continues to deliver the best experience and quality. Steam empowers me as a gamer and a customer.
Plus! Valve, not only includes Linux as an option, but actively develops for Linux and other Open Source technologies such as Proton and FEX, contributing back to the community; which arguably drives down the cost of gaming for everyone in the Sol system.
A game on Steam essentially sells itself.
I’d love to see that 30% go to 15 or 10, but this lawsuit is a stretch
Wut? I don’t buy games often or right away. I put them on my wish list and sometimes there are ridiculous sales. I think I have paid $20 max, and lowest was $2 for an prior version of a Rally game.
Right?! Steam is great if you’re willing to wait. I basically don’t buy games anymore unless they’re 80% off or really cheap anyways.
The store that has constant sales and where you can buy dozens of small indie titles for the average price of one game on other platforms is charging too much now?
3hrs of their time, btw.
Although I can agree on the part of the 30% sale commission being a bit much, the end user usually never sees much of a price increase because of it unless the devs decide to up their price because of that commission.
We’re also not seeing companies like Sintendo charging $80+ for their new games because of competition with Steam nor is GTA6 gonna cost $100+ when it drops February 31st, 2170 because of Steam.
