how much money goes to Steam?

[affliction91]

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

 

[Yoshiro]

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

 

[gusone]

We call that a Win Win. And given how cheap it is for us to buy its a Win Win Win.

 

[[TW]Wilsonam]

Yep, win all round... except for evil, money-grubbing middle-men and carpet-baggers

 

[Innociv]

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]

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 %.

 

[Nenjin]

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]

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. -_-

 

[Crunch28]

carpet-baggers

Lmao. Explain