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Inspired by true events from this morning
I released a game like three years ago and it's earned $97 in that time.
I feel your pain
Buy it yourself, get over 100, cash out
Haha, I've considered it. I'd really like to at least be able to buy pizza for the gang who helped make the game.
Which game is it?
Whats the game? :)
My bank: "We have a new valuation on your home! Open your app to see it!"
...
"It's down 2%!"
hah same energy
For context: I make indie games and have released two so far and I'm currently working on the third one which is weird as fuck. So the way that Steam works is, they don't send you money anytime you make a sale, but they send all of it at the end of every month. Now September is almost over and I got an e-mail titled "Steam Payment Notification" and I get all hyped up. I open it and read it that the Payment Notification is actually that there is no Payment since I didn't make $100 in sales. Way to hype me up and bring me down, Steam.
Youtube and twitch work this same way. When I was starting there were months where I didnt make any money because I didn't meet the minimum. Hoping next month meets the requirement for you boss ๐
Does the balance at least accumulate until you do hit the threshold, or is the money just gone?
Whats the game? :)
I see you settled on a design for the toaster. Love the mustache.
Thank you : )
Does Steam take a cut for distribution?
If not, while this emotionally sucks, they've a solid operational policy.
Yes, their cut is 30% which is a lot, but they are pretty much the only big platform out there. Epic games has been trying to get in the game but so far they are not close. Their cut is 15%.
I want to note that you'd need about $143 in gross sales to meet the threshold of $100 in net profit.
On the surface that sounds like a lot. But, they're providing a service without any guarantee of any income. Epic can only compete because they've few users and are willing to operate at a near loss in attempt to garner market share.
This will be a difficult one for others to understand as a "good deal". Gamers are usually correct when they pull out their pitchforks. This should not be one of those times.
While I'm no fan of Epic Games for bribing companies to keep games off of Steam for a year or more, Valve's market dominance in PC game sales isn't a good thing for developers or consumers.
Competition in capitalism is always better than a lack thereof. But, we've not busted monopolies in a significant way since Ma Bell. And, even if we were, at 75% of the global market share they'd not warrant any action yet.
There's going to be a dominant organization because late stage capitalism sucks. And, I'd rather it be Valve than some alternative trying to fuck me over at every opportunity.
Steam only charges that for larger developers though iirc
I feel you, on Twitch is 50$.
How do people make money there?
I can't even begin to understand how hard it is to make it on Twitch. I assume probably the top 1000 streamers make the real money and the rest 99,5% probably make like $50 per month...
I streamed for like a year and a half+ and I only managed to reach the 50$ treshold to cash out 2 times, so yeah, it's very rough.
subscribers and something called bits of which i dont know the purpose.
Bits are basically donations.
They don't seem to have an issue sending $10 refunds to my bank account, I wonder how much it actually costs them
Complete guess here, but refunds are probably handled differently by the banks compared to new payments, i.e. undoing an error is probably free(ish), but paying people is how they get you
Especially when they're making bank charging 30%.
Policy schmolicy. Withholding even one cent you are owed is fucking shitty.
I've been waiting like 20 years for my money from NewGrounds. I was at $80 last time I checked a while ago.
Do they just keep your earning in your account until one month your total outstanding earnings breach the 100$ threshold and you'll receive all your earning in one transaction or does this money get swallowed by steam?
I think they keep your money until reach the threshold. Steam aren't scummy so I'm pretty sure there is no shady stuff going on with your money.
Yeah i was about to ask that. If they just took all amounts below 100 for themselves that would be super fucked up and probably illegal.
~~if this is true I'd recommend sending GamersNexus an email with the details as they might be able to help considering their past actions to hold companies accountable~~
Edit:
Steam policy rip, see comments down below
It's true, but it's Steam policy. If you haven't reached the threshold for the month, you are not getting a payment. I guess I just have to sell more games and do better next time. I mean with Steam Sale events I will probably get there eventually.
It's true, but it's Steam policy. If you haven't reached the threshold for the month, you are not getting a payment.
damn, guess that's just how it is if you want to sell games on Steam I guess then :/
It's the same on epic, $100 minimum payout.
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