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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
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steam is good and egs sucks. it's not worship, just consumers voicing their preference for a better product.
Steam is a better product, but you give less money to the developers of the actual game. Unless it has Steam exclusives (e.g. Steam workshop) I would rather buy wherever I give the devs most money.
features like steam input and steam play benefit every game regardless if the developer actively supports them. i use the latter quite frequently.
Yeah, I understand why people like and buy from Steam. It gives real value.
However, especially for smaller game studios, I believe I get more value if actual game developers get more money than Steam getting it. Let's say a studio gets $1m in revenue after years of work. Having $180k more ($120k Epic fee vs $300k Steam fee) to spend on artists and developers for their next games/DLCs is a big difference.
Those $300k is literally 0.003409% of Steam's revenue (estimated 8.8 billion in 2020). Valve could have an army of over 40,000 developers at a yearly $200k compensation and still be profitable just from selling other people's games.
So I make a big convenience sacrifice when I buy from Epic. I also don't like to support Tencent. But unless the dev is selling Steam keys directly from their web site, that's where they get the most money.
Smaller game studios on Epic are DOA anyway because Epic refuses to implement game discovery features.
So Epic will put your game trailer on their YouTube for 300 views and call it a day.