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PC - Huge Steam summer sale - View Post

tallgnome said:
aragod said:
zarx said:

hmm I wonder how much money valve has made from this sale, I mean with the amount of stuff being sold they must be making millions. I have heard of people spending $200 at the half way point and a lot of them don't even plan to download even half of the stuff because they got packs with like 10 games and only a few that they are interested in playing etc so a lot of it is basically pure profit.

Can't talk about those discounted sales in general, but Valve reported that the steam platform has 150% growth in the last year. I think that they are "pure profit" with minimal maintenance.

Well if microsoft(360) charges 30% royalties for their digital games. What if valve only does 10-20% royalties. Thus this convinces the developers to lower the prices since they get higher profit percentage wise for digital copies.

Yeah, Pachter was saying something similar in his last "Pach-attack".



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