While the audience argued whether the digital store could Epic Games Set with Steam, I joined the party Discord. The creators of the messenger of the same name announced that in 2019, all developers will be able to sell games on their trading platform, and the share of the service from revenue will be only 10 %.
According to Discord owners, they conducted a study and found out that in 2018 the games can be distributed cheaper than 30 % of their sales revenue. Therefore, the authors decided to provide developers with a platform where studios will be able to publish their creations and receive a 90 percent share. The store will be open for both indie commands and AAA companies.
Moreover, Discord consider the possibility of reducing your share. But before that, the authors will take up the optimization of the technological component of the store.
Recall that now Steam takes 30 % of the revenue from games (for successful projects, the share is reduced up to 20 %). Epic Games Store Separation more gentle: 88 % – developers, 12 – store. Thus, Discord offers games the largest share. If we take into account that the user base Discord has over 200 million people, the store looks more than competitive.
One of the advantages of Discord is a universal game library: through the messenger you can run entertainment from Steam and other services.
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Well, we need to give the discord the due, while everyone else first sculpts a store with foggy development prospects, these guys first made an intelligent Mesenger sharpened under the players, and scored in it an unknown base of active users “All” of which are one way or another the target audience for the future store. That is, on the part of these 200 Lamov users, the discord store will be clearly priority as it is “already installed” on the computer and made sense without any store. The main thing is that there is no intrusive advertising.
In order to compete with existing online stores, I propose to give 95% of profit to developers.
Honestly, I am already so tired over the past week from the word “competition” … Just try to answer yourself: what is going to compete, for example, Mazagin Epicians? Almost complete lack of functionality up to the "Search" button? Imposed by a monopoly fork "either now, but only with us, or wait at least a year"? At the moment, “competition” has been created only for developers, but the players roughly speaking neither hotly nor cold from how much it expenses to the store for the store. The player is interested in convenience. And neither Epica nor discord so far on the declared features to offer the same convenience and spectrum of Steam capabilities can. I repeat, there is no competition, and if the epics continue in the same spirit, then it will not be: the players are no longer very pleased with the policy of the company, whose representatives openly crap on Steam and Valve, but they themselves are not just the same errors, but simply release a store in which there is really nothing to buy.
I think to one of the discoverers it is already worth it to offer the most profitable offer-to pay to the developers for having come to it, and not to take any percentage at all. After all, everyone suddenly believed that for a scanty percentage of sales, you can provide a decent level of quality of the service, and the fact that users will have a corny for centuries to load for centuries, the launcher will constantly die from themera – this is all garbage. Who generally thinks about users, the main thing is that the incision can abandon bread in favor of the red game.
I open my store, pick up only 1% of sales, in the starting line there are games drawn in peehn in 10 minutes.
All the same, Steam is the most advanced service, many are already a huge library there and I personally will not leave Steam.
“It will open for all developers”-this means that the games will stop selecting and begin to let any shit as in Steam or what? This moment is not clear a little.
And the developers will support the work of servers? Ensure the storage and safety of preservations of thousands of games of millions of players? Guarantee that the user will automatically and in time receive patches and additional. Content. For some reason, everyone who wants the developer earned no longer really striving to ask these questions. And right, why? The main thing is that the conventional Team Meat receive $ 13 out of $ 15 instead of $ 11 for each copy ..
The utopian future, in which the indie developer does not pay anything to the store at all, for the fact that he provided him with a full range of opportunities to sell his goods at all. There are no free energy, there are no people who do not want to eat. If an indie-prostrab wants to receive conditional 100% of the cost of his product, then let him realize everything necessary so that the end consumer receives his product, moreover, let it guarantee the quality. Only here is a catch, if an indie defect begins to think about all this, then not only will lose 30%, but with almost a 100% guarantee, it will go bankrupt already on the first release. Not everyone makes conditional minecraft and earns fabulous amounts.
One of the advantages of Discord is a universal game library: through the messenger you can run entertainment from Steam and other stores.
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Robotcache will not only offer only 5% of margin to developers, but will also allow players to resell the bought digital copies. However, this seems not so much a competitor to Steam as the killer of "no-stroke-store". Although … what is dead cannot die.