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Valve's reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3.5 million per employee it makes Apple and Facebook look like a lemonade stand (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

Steam offers a lot more to developers than a storefront to sell your games. The App Store is an extremely minimal offering to developers for the amount of money they demand in exchange.

[-] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What do you mean? It’s not like the App Store is all that devs get from Apple. Apple has an app dev kit and loads of APIs into the phone that they maintain.

[-] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Sure, I’m aware. But nothing on the level of what Valve offers.

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