A lot of talk about Epic Games Store and Epic Games’ exclusive release of good games on its game selling platform. And most PC gamers are very upset about these monopoly deals, a former Valve employee said that eating 30% of Valve’s profits cannot continue and Epic Games is trying to save PC games.
In a series of Tweets, Richard Geldreich said Steam is killing the PC gaming market with its 30% tax; and this division does not help the PC to survive. Overall, this 30% really makes Valve a lot of money and changes the way the company is run (it also explains why Valve hasn’t released any major PC games in recent years).
Steam was killing PC gaming. It was a 30% tax on an entire industry. It was unsustainable. You have no idea how profitable Steam was for Valve. It was a virtual printing press. It distorted the entire company. Epic is fixing this for all gamers.
— Richard Geldreich (@richgel999) April 5, 2019
So Steam was first – so what? At the time, Steam’s 30% revshare looked good compared to the 50% revshare from retail. Now – it’s ridiculus and oppressive to game developers. Valve became abusive to its partners and employees. It took them for granted.
— Richard Geldreich (@richgel999) April 5, 2019
However, Geldreich concurs that the Epic Games Store is currently lacking a lot of features, which gamers criticize Epic Games. Although Epic Games is contracting with many game developers, they need to improve their platform and add as many new features as possible.
I think they hear gamers loud and clear on that. They really should have added more features to EGS before launching.
— Richard Geldreich (@richgel999) April 8, 2019
I think what’s likely to be that Sweeney will push his team to add features to EGS until it’s somewhat at parity vs. Steam’s key features. The exclusive backlash will only cost them a few percent of sales (maybe 5-10%?)
— Richard Geldreich (@richgel999) April 8, 2019
And what do you think about the battle between Epic Games Store and Steam? Will it boost PC game development? Let’s wait and see
Source link: Former Valve employee: Steam is killing PC games, Epic is saving the game market
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