Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’s 5%

Re:Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’... by metildaa on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:17AM (#19269603)

Valve cut their fees to 15% recently for games that sell well, and reduced the normal fee from 30% iirc. Epic Games has brought serious competition to the industry, offering a broadly used game distribution channel for a low price.

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Re:Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’... by Deimorz on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:31AM (#19269656)

No, the normal fee is still 30%, and the reduction is only for extremely high-sales games and never goes below 20%:

> Starting from October 1, 2018 (i.e. revenues prior to that date are not included), when a game makes over $10 million on Steam, the revenue share for that application will adjust to 75%/25% on earnings beyond $10M. At $50 million, the revenue share will adjust to 80%/20% on earnings beyond $50M.

(https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/d...)

The Epic store really isn't much of a competitor at all yet, the only reason it's having any impact at all is because they've been paying developers to release exclusively on the Epic store.

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Re:Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’... by nikeee on Thursday February 28, 2019 @07:57AM (#19271006)

I think you underestimate Fortnite. It is a game played mostly by kids and teenagers. Often, they don't have a Steam account. So if Epic catches them, Steam won't get them.

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