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zarx on 09 November 2010
mrstickball said:

Not surprising.

Their competitors, sans GoG aren't doing a whole lot to court users to their services. Smart business model, and making a killing from what they do. With some titles doing the whole Steamworks thing, you wonder how Steam is splitting the profits. If its a 70-30 split on a $49.99 or $59.99 game....They are doing very, VERY well for themselves.

By the end of the year, Valve will of had 4 major releases on their system that should of yielded huge profits - Battlefield Bad Company 2, Civilization V, Fallout: New Vegas, and Call of Duty: Black Ops. Given how the first 3 have sold, and how Modern Warfare 2 sold on Steam.....Gabe has to be a happy and rich man.

unfortunately this means they can take as long as they want to release the next Half-Life chapter as they won;t be short of money for a long time, it is probably in a Duke Nukem Forever situation right now where they have no financial reason to release so they just keep adding more content and new features... 



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Hephaestos on 09 November 2010

got my account with HL2, didn't use it for 5 years, then I heard of the steam sales....

let's just say that now i believe that PC games have reached an offer/demand sweet spot =)



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Mummelmann on 09 November 2010

Steam is brilliant, I've bought almost all my PC games there the last three years or so.



Hephaestos on 09 November 2010
zarx said:
mrstickball said:

Not surprising.

Their competitors, sans GoG aren't doing a whole lot to court users to their services. Smart business model, and making a killing from what they do. With some titles doing the whole Steamworks thing, you wonder how Steam is splitting the profits. If its a 70-30 split on a $49.99 or $59.99 game....They are doing very, VERY well for themselves.

By the end of the year, Valve will of had 4 major releases on their system that should of yielded huge profits - Battlefield Bad Company 2, Civilization V, Fallout: New Vegas, and Call of Duty: Black Ops. Given how the first 3 have sold, and how Modern Warfare 2 sold on Steam.....Gabe has to be a happy and rich man.

unfortunately this means they can take as long as they want to release the next Half-Life chapter as they won;t be short of money for a long time, it is probably in a Duke Nukem Forever situation right now where they have no financial reason to release so they just keep adding more content and new features... 

except DNF wasn't really adding features :p



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zarx on 09 November 2010
Hephaestos said:
zarx said:
mrstickball said:

Not surprising.

Their competitors, sans GoG aren't doing a whole lot to court users to their services. Smart business model, and making a killing from what they do. With some titles doing the whole Steamworks thing, you wonder how Steam is splitting the profits. If its a 70-30 split on a $49.99 or $59.99 game....They are doing very, VERY well for themselves.

By the end of the year, Valve will of had 4 major releases on their system that should of yielded huge profits - Battlefield Bad Company 2, Civilization V, Fallout: New Vegas, and Call of Duty: Black Ops. Given how the first 3 have sold, and how Modern Warfare 2 sold on Steam.....Gabe has to be a happy and rich man.

unfortunately this means they can take as long as they want to release the next Half-Life chapter as they won;t be short of money for a long time, it is probably in a Duke Nukem Forever situation right now where they have no financial reason to release so they just keep adding more content and new features... 

except DNF wasn't really adding features :p


oh they were up to the point where they would see a new engine and scrap all the work they had done and start over...



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Reasonable on 09 November 2010

I do really, really like Valve, Steam, Half Life, etc. but they really, really need to get HL2 - Episode 3 out the door.  Sorry, but currently whenever I see anything posted that remotely has to do with Valve I just automatically think "when the hell is Episode 3 coming?"



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shio on 09 November 2010
mrstickball said:

Not surprising.

Their competitors, sans GoG aren't doing a whole lot to court users to their services. Smart business model, and making a killing from what they do. With some titles doing the whole Steamworks thing, you wonder how Steam is splitting the profits. If its a 70-30 split on a $49.99 or $59.99 game....They are doing very, VERY well for themselves.

By the end of the year, Valve will of had 4 major releases on their system that should of yielded huge profits - Battlefield Bad Company 2, Civilization V, Fallout: New Vegas, and Call of Duty: Black Ops. Given how the first 3 have sold, and how Modern Warfare 2 sold on Steam.....Gabe has to be a happy and rich man.

I think it's a 60-40 split, at least according to rumours (with Valve getting the 40%).

For Garry's Mod it's a 50-50 split, mostly because it was just a mod, and Valve had the idea to put it on Steam and helped it happen. The guy that made GM can't complain though, because it sold over 770k on Steam (and still selling), and he's now a multi-millionaire.



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