Why 12%? We chose this number to provide a super-competitive deal for partners while building an enduring and profitable store business for Epic. From that 12%, we net around 5% after direct costs and that could grow to 6-7% with greater economies of scale.
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You have to understand, 30% is an enormous markup. When a grocery store sells an Amazon or iTunes or Steam card, their markup is maybe 10% to 15%. That’s for a physical retail store with shelves continually stocked by workers.
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When a credit card company processes those transactions, they take 2.5 to 3.5%, and that covers their costs of banking and customer service.
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Honestly one thing you aren't looking at is that all those companies build out their own multiplayer infrastructure where a lot of other developers use steam's multiplayer infrastructure such as master servers, resource urls, etc. So those companies also don't benefit from steam.
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That said it would be nice if steam had a piece meal system of turning off multiplayer and other features from a game to get a lower % but just going off of what it takes to pay for the bandwidth isn't correct either, you need developers and etc to build these things out.
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I totally understand any company going after a better deal, but by boxing off major games into your store (that you didn't create), you are bringing exclusivity into a platform that doesn't want it. You want to be a part of PC gaming, that's fine but don't ruin it in the process.
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I don't mind that your launcher needs work and actually welcome any competition to Steam. But you need to stop taking peoples choice away and start giving them something they don't have. Ironically my Epic account was successfully hacked yesterday, so maybe start with security
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They are also not picking up third party titles they had no hand in making for exclusive deals. Activision published Sekiro and still has it on Steam.
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People would've been less mad if ur launcher just worked & had basic features from the get go. But nope u want to catapult the store with exclusivity deals before even making a decent service for consumers. I'm not against the EGS, it's just dirty forcing ppl to ur shitty house.
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