mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to Steam@lemmy.ml · 6 months agoTim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?'www.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square207fedilinkarrow-up1591
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minus-squareArmok: God of Blood@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-26 months agoI think Steam’s cut should probably be something like 0.05 * (log(x) + 1) where x is number of copies sold.
minus-squareCabunach@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoYou mean that games need to have 100 000 copies sold to get to the 30% cut?
minus-squareArmok: God of Blood@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·6 months agoYes. It would mean that small indie games with low sales wouldn’t be hit as hard by Steam taking a cut, and huge hits that sell millions of copies would help subsidize this.
I think Steam’s cut should probably be something like
0.05 * (log(x) + 1)
where x is number of copies sold.You mean that games need to have 100 000 copies sold to get to the 30% cut?
Yes. It would mean that small indie games with low sales wouldn’t be hit as hard by Steam taking a cut, and huge hits that sell millions of copies would help subsidize this.