• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    8 hours ago

    any time someone thinks “well I don’t wanna pay that 30% cut, I’ll just do it myself” they fail.

    I have seen so many extremely successful games that aren’t on steam though. Starsector immediately springs to mind. Minecraft was never on steam too.

    I think genuinely good games do well without steam. I would not attribute success of a game to steam.

    • booty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      5 hours ago

      Okay, if that’s true then just don’t put the game on steam and don’t pay a 30% cut. Hell, put the game on steam and then also sell it for less money on your own website to try to funnel sales there. There’s literally nothing stopping any of that.

      Devs use Steam because it kicks ass and it’s well worth the cut.