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Aknot
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I said (in another post $50 for the game via STEAM) BUT I read this in another Games forum:
"Say a retail game goes for $50... half of that goes to the retailer, so the distributor gets $25. 10% of that goes to the distributor, so the publisher gets $22.50. Cost of the box, manual, and CD case is around $7.50, so that leaves $15 for the publisher and development studio to split, so if we retailed the game for $50, <insert game Co> would probably see about $7.50 of that, if we got a great deal from the publisher (more likely, it would be $2.50)."
So IF HL2 goes for $50 (via Steam) Valve gets (roughly) $47.50 more per game then the "store" bought copy.
Thats a huge chunk of change if you step back and think about it.
Has it been posted before that the STEAM version will be "less"? a Little less? Etc.....
"Say a retail game goes for $50... half of that goes to the retailer, so the distributor gets $25. 10% of that goes to the distributor, so the publisher gets $22.50. Cost of the box, manual, and CD case is around $7.50, so that leaves $15 for the publisher and development studio to split, so if we retailed the game for $50, <insert game Co> would probably see about $7.50 of that, if we got a great deal from the publisher (more likely, it would be $2.50)."
So IF HL2 goes for $50 (via Steam) Valve gets (roughly) $47.50 more per game then the "store" bought copy.
Thats a huge chunk of change if you step back and think about it.
Has it been posted before that the STEAM version will be "less"? a Little less? Etc.....