thestryker wrote on Aug 24, 2023, 18:14:

Verno wrote on Aug 24, 2023, 14:13:
Anyways to address your other point, it's not the job of consumers to directly reward creators, this isn't Patreon. I'm not directly paying someones salary, I don't have that agency in decisions when I decide to purchase a game. It's a product that I buy, that's the beginning and end of that relationship.

Out of curiosity why don't you care about the creators getting maximum revenue from the sales of their product? I started buying games published by indie developers on EGS (I totally get not caring about giving big publishers extra money, devs will never see a dime) simply so they get more of what I spend because it costs me nothing. I'm not demanding anyone do the same as it's a personal choice, but I'm curious what reason someone wouldn't.

I'm an end consumer purchasing a product, I'm not an investor and this isn't children in sweatshops assembling phones or something. If I wanted to determine who gets paid what then I would purchase shares in the company. Let me ask you a question - do you take that even further and make sure that the revenue split actually goes to the people who make the product instead of dividends to executives, publishers or a shareholder who controls the whole company? I bet you don't. I wouldn't expect you to either, it's not reasonable to ask or expect consumers to weigh these things when they're just buying a simple product. I buy a game wherever I want based on a variety of factors - price, features, availability, marketing and so on. I don't sit there going "well golly if I bought Civ VI on Fanatical, the dev gets 17% instead of 15% on Steam". I don't have that information at hand readily and there are way too many platforms and storefronts for something that is not a purchasing factor for most consumers. Revenue splits are a business concern between respective parties.

I only purchase games on the Epic Games Store when they beat the price on Steam because in most other respects it lacks feature parity. As a result, I don't buy many games on there because more often than not, they aren't cheaper.