Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu...
by InsidiousWombat on Saturday November 14, 2026 @08:30AM
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That's very ignorant perspective on it. 30% is very much standard cut in near any kind of online gaming stores and Steam's on average is lower than that.
Yes, they could drop the price for indies but they do have progressive tiering, at top you pay 20% to them and by revenue split it's much closer to taking 20% cut on average than 30%. But yes, indies are being a bit screwed there.
... if not for the fact every single cheaper platform will still get you massively less sales just because they can't compete on feature, let alone popularity of Steam.
Also the 30% funded ability to play games at all on my Linux box so I'm fine with paying the extra.
Yes, they could drop the price for indies but they do have progressive tiering, at top you pay 20% to them and by revenue split it's much closer to taking 20% cut on average than 30%. But yes, indies are being a bit screwed there.
... if not for the fact every single cheaper platform will still get you massively less sales just because they can't compete on feature, let alone popularity of Steam.
Also the 30% funded ability to play games at all on my Linux box so I'm fine with paying the extra.