Both are fair competition. Developers value having certainty about their revenue from a game, and also value getting a large share of the revenue. These are business with lots of expenses and many mouths to feed.
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How'd you feel if the largest & best store on PC started paying for exclusivity? Would you consider that 'fair competition'?
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Replying to @HaidarAnsari_ @haidarans and
Steam’s the largest PC store and already has PC exclusives such as DOTA2, Counterstrike, and Portal. Valve has every right to make deals with developers and publishers to secure more exclusives, just as Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and Epic Games do!
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @haidarans and
I’d like to challenge critics to state what moral principle you feel is at stake. If it’s okay for one company to avoid the 30% Valve tax by selling exclusively through their own store, why is it wrong for multiple companies to work together to achieve the same goals?
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @haidarans and
Is escaping the 30% Steam tax a privilege reserved only for games made by powerful corporations? What moral principle prohibits smaller developers and publishers from making deals to get funding and lower 12% store fees, or prohibits Epic from offering them?
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Replying to @GV_Delchev @haidarans and
The Kickstarter situation is tricky because, as best as we understand Valve policy, the only way the developers can make Steam keys available to backers is if they offer their game for sale publicly to everyone on Steam with the store taking 30%.
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Replying to @GV_Delchev @haidarans and
You’re suggesting that crowd-funded games have a moral obligation to be available on Steam to non-backers and give 30% to Valve forever. In my view, that’s crazy talk. Epic would be happy to buy Steam keys for backers, but the 30% forever thing is untenable.
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There are two distinct cases here. The first case is when backers spend money on an effort. In this case everyone is working on this situation and we urge patience while we sort it out, as explained here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ysnet/shenmue-3/updates …
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @GV_Delchev and
The second case is where a developer simply tells the public about their future plans. Here, it’s completely reasonable to change plans and announce a new plan.
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