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Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I think Steam's cut should probably be something like 0.05 * (log(x) + 1) where x is number of copies sold.

[–] Cabunach@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You mean that games need to have 100 000 copies sold to get to the 30% cut?

[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago

Yes. It would mean that small indie games with low sales wouldn't be hit as hard by Steam taking a cut, and huge hits that sell millions of copies would help subsidize this.