Title says it all. It appears the Good guy Steam is wearing thin. I don't really have anything to say about it because it doesn't effect me as much. I think it has both pro's and cons though. The pro's being well made mods get rewarded with some form of compensation and it encourages people to take it up a lot more. Con's being the amount Valve take from one sale. It's rumoured at 75% but that can't be right.
Valve are getting ever closer to joining the cash cow of milking gamers as much as they can. They got years of praise for being the company that didn't, Counter Strike Global Offensive and It's ludicrous amount of Micro transactions say otherwise.
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That's the one doing the rounds to suggest they take 75% but it has to be fake. A more plausible outcome is 25% steam, 25% game developers and 50% creator. That would really open up a huge modding market and encourage game developers to leave their game more open to the third party.
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Credit to /u/Haker10201 for finding out exactly how payment is going to go.
I did some digging, and I found out a concrete answer:
You can link a bank account to your steam account, and the money that you make will be transferred to your bank. They pay out money on the 30th of every month, for the previous month's sales. However, they ONLY pay if you've sold at least $400 in mods (they say "earned money is at least $100", and since your earned money is 25% of the actual money, you need to sell $400). Also, if the payment from Valve has some sort of error, and doesn't go through, they send the money on the billing cycle, as they don't pay off cycle. So, if they have some sort of error, you're -------- for a month, regardless how much you're supposed to make.
And, if you don't sell at least $400 in mods, you don't get a single penny until you DO sell that much. So what happens if you never hit that $400 mark? Lol valve gets to keep 100% of your profits. They also state that if you don't have a valid bank account, but charge for your mod, valve keeps 100% of profits, because they don't hold money for users.
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Appears to be the actual process. Removed swears from the quote.