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In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 8 points 8 months ago

Steam let's devs sell games anywhere and provide steam keys. There are many alternate stores you can buy games and get a steam key. I'm guessing that is one reason they have a big cut.

But also, I remember indie devs having to give up 60℅ of revenue to go on the larger indie game publishing sites.

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