Then again, Valve gets 30% to 20% of the benefits from all sales from their platform. It's easier to be generous when everyone has to pay you to make cash.
3This.
Valve doesn't release games, it releases ads for Steam.
Which is fine. It's great. Makes for great, cheap products and long-term strategies that aren't trying to shake all the money off of you.
But that's the end goal, still.
As a friendly reminder, Valve also universalized DRM, invented multiple new types of microtransactions and actually kinda invented NFTs for a little bit.
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Dead space remake was great, wasnt it?
1Tony Hawk, anyone? Remaster old game, then make it require a server ping to guarantee it won't work in the future when they decide to stop supporting it.
1Just few weeks ago everyone complaining about CS2
1I mean sure, but this is a great showcase of Source Engine 2 which is a product they will be selling
1And yet there are companies like Bethesda that have re-released games dozens of times for full price.
1I mean don't get me wrong, I am all for Valve's overall values compared to EA, Sony, Microsoft, Bethesda, etc. glad they're staying private.
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If only Valve could learn to count to three they'd be the perfect game studio.
0they already did! the steamdeck was released with steam os 3.0 (in the meantime they reached 3.5)
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Adding a couple of maps to a 25 year old game isn't a remaster. Anyone here play Black Mesa? Now THAT's how you do a remaster.
0That's a remake, not a remaster.
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Well, not every company is shitting money like Valve.
They can afford to do this because of their technical monopoly.
0Blizzard, Bethesda, Epic, EA and many others have more money than Valve. So what's their excuse for not giving free games? Hell EA earned on micro-transactions for FIFA more than GDP of some countries.
2Activision Blizzard annual net income for 2022 was $1.513B
In fiscal year 2022, EA posted GAAP net revenue of approximately $7 billion
Epic Games revenue is $5.76 billion according to figures reported in 2021
Valve generated around USD13 billion in total revenue in 2022
Also,
So what’s their excuse for not giving free games?
Did you really ask this after including Epic?
But these comparisons are ridiculous anyway. Neither of these companies are your friends, and trying to understand their behavior in terms of anything other than profit-seeking is only going to lead to you feeling betrayed. Gamers' obsession with defending Steam is so ridiculous that no one ever disputes the idea that Apple and Google are being abusive with their store policies, but calling out Steam for doing the exact same always brings dozens of people out of the woods who think it's a controversial claim.
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They can do that because you pay them when you buy other game remasters.
0yes but so do other huge game companies on cosmetics, in game items, other spin offs. I agree it's not as easy but right now even doing this is unusual for most companies.
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