Feel free to point out any equivalent shops that do, as in PC game download services.
Can't back it up since I don't have data, but other regions like Latin American or Russia or Eastern Europe must also sell high numbers of copies now that Valve implemented regional pricing.
is this going back to your 'why is everyone thinking theyre doing this out of the goodness of their heart' thing from earlier?
Again, I said revenue contribution.Well that is not true
You as customer are paying the same amount. Price won't go down for you if cut changes.
The subtext was pretty clear: Epic cannot sell wallet cards without passing some form of cost to either the end user or the developer, given that they can't absorb the 10-15% cut to the actual shop selling the wallet card. The caveat is that 10-15% is the industry standard for wallet cards, which might actually strengthen the subtext.
Prices are set by publishers, why would they lower their price when their take is more, especially when people already buy them at full price.
valve don't set prices. publishers/devs do amd they aren't going to lower the price, no matter what percentage they get.
It's only $50 in the USA and, even then, you were able to buy a steam copy from a third party store for cheaper before the exclusive deal was announced. So even that price was a price increase.
its like 12 steps behind almost everyone else
The ideal solution is to not take such a small cut. That cut exists for a reason. It's not like they're already eating the cost of releasing these games on EGS by throwing potentially more money at publishers than they're making back.
It was always pushed as a pro-dev thing though, never a pro-consumer thing. It's still true, it's just we as the consumer are punished for it.
The industry does nothing but look out for itself and its bottom dollar lately. From AI-guided MTX to GaaS, lootboxes, and the shift to streaming, "the industry" is positioning itself to become an endless siphon of money from every customer it can reach.
