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Originally Posted by uruguru
Just looked it up. FastSpring has two options: 8.9% or 5.9% plus 95 cents.
At $32, it becomes better to use the latter option.
So, for a $50 game, Steam will take will $15 (30%), whereas FS will take $3.90 (7.8%).
That means Steam will be taking almost 4x as much in fees for OOTP25.
Well, sure. No one is suggesting they take it off Steam. But if the question is about which is better for the devs for your purchase, it's always going to be FS if you are fine with either option.
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Sure, they get less per game, but Steam is a volume business. Less per game, but more games sold. Steam is not hurting the developer.
Honestly what is best for the developer is whatever it takes to get a customer to buy the game. As a long time customer that was here way before Steam I'm all for Markus making as much money as he can (notice how I don't complain about PT even though I don't play it?
). Totally understand and have nothing but respect for anyone that buys direct so more ends up in their pocket from those sales. If I didn't like the conveniences that Steam offers I'd buy direct. But I do like what Steam gives me and it's much more than a shortcut on my desktop. It's enough to make me fore-go the three day early release, and that is saying something.
