how much money goes to Steam?

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affliction91

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does anyone know the cut that steam takes off the games that are sold through steam?? if any...
 

Yoshiro

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That information is confidential. But the ammount of money Tripwire see's from Steam Sales are much larger then a traditional publishing deal.
 

Innociv

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Well impulse takes 20%-30%. I imagine steam takes 30-40%.

With retail, I think on average the publisher takes like 85% royalties? But they paid up front to have to game made, paid for advertising, etc. Generally the devs only get a % after a game reaches a certain number of sales and it's a small %. I could be wrong on the numbers here.
 

ickylevel

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I have read from an indie devellopper that they took 40 % . But to their publisher. So the developpers get even less.

So here it might be more than 40 %. I won't be surprised if it's 60 %.
 
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Nenjin

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Valve is awesome in that, they'll trade 25% of their profit margin for the developer's new born babies. Get 'em while they're young, as they say.
 

Hipocracy

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I have read from an indie devellopper that they took 40 % . But to their publisher. So the developpers get even less.

So here it might be more than 40 %. I won't be surprised if it's 60 %.

Everything you just said is complete conjecture and a "i have read" with no source cited. -_-