Steam really needs something like this. Even the first 100k would be a great start for boosting indie devs. Instead they do the opposite and reward the big players. >Steam actually reduces their cut as you hit certain milestones. For your first $10M in sales, they take that standard 30%. Hit the $10M mark, and their cut drops to 25% for sales between $10M and $50M. Push past $50M, and Steam only takes 20%.

Fortnite kids will sustain them.

I think ideally the first xk should have somethong like 10% since there's still payment processing fees and such. After that have 30% then go down on huge amount of sales (to keep the big boys happy and on steam)

Why do you want to keep "the big boys" happy? I mean, if you're Gabe then I get it. If you have a spare yacht call me, let's talk. But if you're not, then... what's the reasoning there?

Not me, but i do want steam to stay the main game platform, if the alternative is epic games. That means you want to keep big studios on the platform. On the other hand the vast majority of the money that valve makes comes from indie games, not big studios.

My go-to is GoG, but I definitely want Steam to lose some market share in favor of literally anybody else. I will worry about moving that extra share towards GoG when the market isn't a full on monopoly. But hey, yeah, stop using Steam and go to Gog whenever you can. You heard it here first. DRM-free software should be your first choice.

They’re so desperate to make their store front a thing

No one cares.

Yeah yeah, what about making the EGS program not suck for customers? An overglorified browser running on top of unreal engine, no user reviews for games...

Naw, each time I buy on gog over steam I end up regretting it for some reason, usually related to modding or portability. Gogs great, but has limitations. With steam everything works better.

So true. All they have to do is WAY FUCKING MORE THAN THEY ARE WILLING TO. Fuck Epic

> the vast majority of the money that valve makes comes from indie games, not big studios This is definitely not the case. Big studios price their games higher *and* sell more copies. There are only a handful of indie games like Stardew Valley and Terraria that come close to being in the same spot of the bell curve. Most of Valve's money comes from microtransactions in the longest-running live services and the biggest games of the year.

I've not used Epic games store much at all but I could see this leading to a proliferation of garbage on their service if they take the Steam approach of just letting anyone publish on there. This would essentially be an incentive to publish asset flip shovelware on Epic instead of Steam because "devs" get a bigger cut.

Do they officially support Linux yet? No heroic doesn't count.

They do not, and never will.

I hate epic too but game devs do

Ah yeah my bad its the number of sales where indie games win. In terms of money its almost 50/50 tho. 

If it free, there is an incentive to release quantity and not quality, it could become a spam problem. I am all for having a lower percentage though, but 0 could be a problem.

Until it doesnt and your entire game library is done...

> People are sick and tired of expensive garbage games and that shows in the drastic changes in revenue from 2023-2024. Be careful not to make the data fit your conclusion. Anecdotally, I've observed a similar sentiment, but for one thing, AAA releases have slowed down due to long development times, so there just aren't that many of them in a given year. For another, we know that, by a wide margin, most time spent gaming is only on a handful of mainstay games that first debuted years ago, like Counter-Strike 2, Grand Theft Auto V, Fortnite, Minecraft, etc. Plenty of those aren't on Steam, but the same concept applies to the games that top the Steam charts.