@nave@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agoHere’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square83arrow-up1370cross-posted to: gaming@beehaw.orggames@sh.itjust.workstechnology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1370external-linkHere’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employswww.theverge.com@nave@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agomessage-square83cross-posted to: gaming@beehaw.orggames@sh.itjust.workstechnology@lemmy.ml
minus-square@rdri@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish7•11 months ago Valve just takes 10% more than everyone else What do you mean? 30% is used by almost every digital store.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️linkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoSince when? Valve’s 30% has always been contentious because everyone else had only been 15-20%. It’s the main thing Tim Sweeny constantly whines about.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-211 months agoSince 2019 then? So Sweeny is an even bigger wiener than I thought.
minus-squarejeevalinkfedilinkEnglish4•11 months agoTo be clear, that thirty percent was the going rate for stores back when Steam started - not just since 2019. I don’t know where you’re getting the 15-20 percent thing.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-211 months ago I don’t know where you’re getting the 15-20 percent thing. From articles about it I read way back in the early 2000’s when the Orange Box came out. Back in 2007 there was no other digital game store and physical publishers still are known to only take 15-20%.
What do you mean? 30% is used by almost every digital store.
Since when? Valve’s 30% has always been contentious because everyone else had only been 15-20%. It’s the main thing Tim Sweeny constantly whines about.
Since 2019 then? So Sweeny is an even bigger wiener than I thought.
To be clear, that thirty percent was the going rate for stores back when Steam started - not just since 2019.
I don’t know where you’re getting the 15-20 percent thing.
From articles about it I read way back in the early 2000’s when the Orange Box came out.
Back in 2007 there was no other digital game store and physical publishers still are known to only take 15-20%.