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SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 months agoValve is not a publisher they are a store. The percentage they take is in line with every other digital store, except itch.io Also compared to brick and mortar stores that percentage is low.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 months ago
Valve is both a publisher and developer.
Steam is a store.
A publisher is merely any individual or business that makes others’ works available for sale. Valve does this through Steam.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Okay Valve is also a publisher but how many games have they published from outside developers? The only one I can think of is Garry’s mod and a Portal spin-offs. So it’s virtually impossible to get your game published by Valve the publisher. The person above said that Valve takes a 30% cut, they were obviously referring to the store fee. But then you replied “don’t work with a publisher then” Which doesn’t make sense since Valve only publishes their own games.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 months ago
Literally every game on Steam that isn’t their own. 🤦♂️
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dude running a store isn’t publishing. 🤦♂️Like a book publisher and a book store are two different things. I work in the games industry nobody says that their games are published by Valve when they put their games on Steam. Valve distributes games which is different from publishing. Does Valve make the store art for each game, write the marketing blurb and game description, do they contact journalists/streamers for each game and create the trailer for each game? No Valve does non of that, since that’s the job of the publisher the developer works with. Steam has literally a text field on each game page that says who the publisher of each game is and only on Valve games it says that the publisher is Valve. Sounds like you don’t know what publishing means.