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Re:Steam Sales 2015 by dagw on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @09:00AM (#10843246)
What is the revenue split for non-Valve games on Steam? While I certainly wouldn't have any problem believing that 50% of game sales happen through Steam, that is not the same as Valve getting 50% of the game sales revenue.
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Re:Steam Sales 2015 by et1337 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @09:53AM (#10843468)
They take 30%.
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Re:Steam Sales 2015 by drzaiusapelord on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @11:30AM (#10844090)
I imagine large publishers negotiate a much smaller cut.
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Re:Steam Sales 2015 by TheCraiggers on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @03:49PM (#10845903)
I wouldn't be so sure. It's not like most publishers have much of a choice. Unless you have your own Steam-like service (and sometimes, even if you do) you almost don't even have a choice. I'm pretty sure Valve knows this, and takes advantage of it.

In other words, Valve holds all the cards in the majority of negotiations.

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Re:Steam Sales 2015 by et1337 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @02:09PM (#10845223)
My understanding is it's much worse with big publishers. IIRC more like 60% publisher / 40% developer.
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Re:Steam Sales 2015 by distances on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @05:22PM (#10846532)
Do note though that Valve/Steam isn't a publisher, it's just the distributor even if a major one. Quite many games still have separate developer and publisher, neither of which is Valve.
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