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[Ryuu96]

the-pi-guy said:

Ryuu96 said:

This is how GeForce Now and all other Cloud providers already work, no?

GeForce isn't selling the consumer content, none of these Cloud Gaming Providers are. The transactions are made via the relevant stores (E.g. Microsoft Store/Steam) and they are the ones who get the 30% cut. If you want to play a game via GeForce Now then you have to buy it on a storefront (I.E. Steam) who take a 30% cut, the publisher gets the rest and Nvidia gets nothing.

So I don't think this would or even could apply to PS Plus? Because you'd still be playing the PlayStation version of the game and any transactions made would be via the PlayStation store where Microsoft has no way of taking 100%. Nvidia, Boosteroid, Ubitus, etc, are simply using your Steam library and all content purchased there so they aren't entitled to a cut.

Their business model is Subscriptions to their Cloud service, not transactions via a store, because they have no store.

Good point.

Seems like a strange point for CMA to bring up in that case. 

Hmhm.

This makes it doubly strange of a complaint.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says it is consulting on commitments offered by Google which would give app developers the freedom to break away from Google Play’s billing system and use alternatives to process in-app payments.

Following the CMA’s market study into ‘mobile ecosystems’ and concerns raised that Google’s control over payment processing in Google Play is potentially leading to higher prices and reduced choice for Android users, a new investigation was launched into these in-app payment rules.

CMA and other regulators are going after Google and Apple right now for taking 30% cuts and not offering alternative ways for developers to avoid those 30% cuts on in-game transactions and are pushing Google & Apple to allow that, so that developers can take 100% of certain transactions, such as in-game transactions.

Bit odd? To bash Microsoft for taking 100% cut of CoD from someone (GeForce) who doesn't even have a store to take a cut of the sales from but at the same time encourage developers to take 100% cuts from iOS/Android who do provide the store...Microsoft is a developer of CoD...Like Epic is the developer of Fortnite...

Microsoft has to share the transactional revenue with a Cloud service who doesn't even provide a store but Epic doesn't have to with iOS/Android?

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 28 April 2023