I do and yes, those keys move slower than Steam sales. But let’s not pretend that’s pure altruism on Valve’s part.
Selling Steam keys elsewhere still benefits Valve because people shop wherever they bulk of their library lives.
The “as long as the price is the same” is also important an important caveat, because it essentially means that Valve doesn’t need to compete with other platforms.
If you decided to sell your game for $50 dollars + platform percentage, buying from the Epic store would be a 10% discount. Almost every game on there would be able to offer this discount and that would be enough to start pulling users away. Rather than offer a better cut, Valve just writes it into the terms that you can’t do that.
You absolutely can do what you are saying. You CAN sell games for lower on other platforms as long as they aren’t steam versions. You CANT sell games that use steam keys for cheaper on another platform which makes sense because steam is still providing bandwidth and other services for your game.
Then generate the steamkey(for free) and sell them elsewhere! Steam is toatally Ok with that, as long as the price is the same.
I do and yes, those keys move slower than Steam sales. But let’s not pretend that’s pure altruism on Valve’s part.
Selling Steam keys elsewhere still benefits Valve because people shop wherever they bulk of their library lives.
The “as long as the price is the same” is also important an important caveat, because it essentially means that Valve doesn’t need to compete with other platforms.
If you decided to sell your game for $50 dollars + platform percentage, buying from the Epic store would be a 10% discount. Almost every game on there would be able to offer this discount and that would be enough to start pulling users away. Rather than offer a better cut, Valve just writes it into the terms that you can’t do that.
You absolutely can do what you are saying. You CAN sell games for lower on other platforms as long as they aren’t steam versions. You CANT sell games that use steam keys for cheaper on another platform which makes sense because steam is still providing bandwidth and other services for your game.
Oh yeah that’s right. Sorry, I haven’t put a game out for a long time.