The subject is pretty much self-explanatory. I've searched all around and can't find anyone that has answered this question. I'm planning a KS, so I'd like to know what the cost of requesting a Steam key is to add it to my budget. I'd guess it's basically the 30% steam cut per key, but I want to know for sure from someone that has already tried it.
Thanks!
I don't know for sure but making some educated guesses based off of things like Humble Bundle and purchasing from GameStop
- you can buy a game at GameStop (of which Steam got no cut of)and then activate the Key on steam and never pop the physical disk in your computer
- you can buy a game on Humble Bundle for $1 (or often even 3 games) and the slider there does not say *any* of that money goes to Steam
So my guess is:
The
biggest hurdle is getting your game on steam at all. Once steam agrees to host your game, my guess is they want your customers (and indeed ALL customers) to think of steam as the place to store all their games. So they allow those external purchases to activate in steam for free (to you the developer and the customer)
because they care more about gaining a new customer than they do the 30% fee for that one game.
I could be wrong though