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Steam is a ticking time bomb. (www.spacebar.news)
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The decline of the Steam games platform is inevitable, and there are already warning signs.

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[–] Cris16228@lemmy.today 20 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (20 children)

Steam's 30% cut on each purchase has been criticized over the years, especially with Steam's market share being too large for many developers to ignore.

With all what they offer, 30% IMO is fair. It gets lower when you reach a certain amount too

Steam's position in the market is a functional monopoly, but there have been challengers. The greatest example is the Epic Games Store, which started as just the launcher for Fortnite, then became a full-blown store in 2019 for third-party games. The Epic Games Store was light on features at first, and still doesn't have many of the community-centric features in Steam, but it has a Steamworks-like multiplayer framework and other core functionality. Epic also doesn't take as much money from game developers as Steam's 30% cut.

Epic a challenger? LMAO "The greatest example is the Epic Games Store" yeah sure, they have nothing, quite literally.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

With all what they offer, 30% IMO is fair.

It's not like the games are cheaper on other stores with lower cuts. Why would customers care if the lower cut just results in publishers pocketing higher profits.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Good point

[–] Cris16228@lemmy.today 3 points 16 hours ago

True. Not praising steam as the god digital store on PC because it has its own problems but it saved me from 🏴‍☠️ and now I do it for devs that deserve it (Looking at you Sony and PSN requirement) or as demo damn I wish more games had a demo

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