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Without any flashy marketing campaigns or social media fanfare, Valve rolled out a routine Steam Client update containing a very simple line in the patch notes: “Improved Steam Client startup performance.”

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[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The licensing for source is better than unreal. Its only stipend it has to be published on steam. (Which you're most likely to do anyway) while unreal requires 5% royalities over 1mil gross revenue (outside of epic store, which lets be real... wont account for much)

[–] goatbeard@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

FWIW Steam takes a 30% cut from sales

[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 days ago

And for that cut they provide hosting, cloud saves, promotion, distribution, community support, workshop availability, DLC handling, and a store page. The cut is also much less than what larger publishing companies charge for less service. Self publishing is very feasible on Steam.

[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

As does every store, digital and physical, except EGS and Microsoft. That's the standard retail cut.