Pemalite on 12 May 2017
| malistix1985 said: Also PC is lead in digital sales so more revenue back to the developer ánd blizzard has their own sales platform on PC and they don't need to give a revenue share to origin, steam, psn or xbox live, which is huge |
Exactly. Blizzard is their own Publisher/Developer. Whatever sales they make, they tend to keep the bulk of the money. They use their own store.
A developer like Crytek usually pays a publisher like Electronic Arts a good 30% or more of the revenue... Then they have to pay another 30% or more to Steam, Xbox, Playstation etc'.
So even if a Blizzard game is only mildly successfull like StarCraft 2 with 5 million~ copies, it's going to be extremely profitable for Blizzard. Probably more profitable than a game that sells 7.5 million on a console, distributed by a publisher.
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