▲ 444 ▼ Epic Games Bragged About Beating Steam’s Boot Times So Valve Dropped A Patch (www.eteknix.com) submitted 2 days ago by slartibartfast141@piefed.zip to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 184 comments fedilink hide all child comments Without any flashy marketing campaigns or social media fanfare, Valve rolled out a routine Steam Client update containing a very simple line in the patch notes: “Improved Steam Client startup performance.”
[–] goatbeard@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago (2 children) FWIW Steam takes a 30% cut from sales permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 21 hours ago* As does every store, digital and physical, except EGS and Microsoft. That's the standard retail cut. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago And for that cut they provide hosting, cloud saves, promotion, distribution, community support, workshop availability, DLC handling, and a store page. The cut is also much less than what larger publishing companies charge for less service. Self publishing is very feasible on Steam. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 21 hours ago* As does every store, digital and physical, except EGS and Microsoft. That's the standard retail cut. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago And for that cut they provide hosting, cloud saves, promotion, distribution, community support, workshop availability, DLC handling, and a store page. The cut is also much less than what larger publishing companies charge for less service. Self publishing is very feasible on Steam. permalink fedilink source parent