Just like the title says, why wouldn’t valve give game developers, who refuse to bring their games to the deck, an incentive to come over. Companies love money. I think if valve told the game developers “hey, if you bring your game to the steam deck, we will lower our 30% fee to 25%” or some shit like that. Do you all think this would work?
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They don’t need anti- competitive practices to stay relevant like some other companies seem to.
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The Deck is intended to allow games not even made for Linux to run on it. Having games not actually designed for the system working well on the system is more of a flex than purposely getting devs to optimize for it.
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I don’t know what you mean by ‘bring your game to the deck’. How is it any different from listing it on Steam? Anyway to answer the question I think it’s because they actually have a decent platform that’s worth the cost for most developers. If you start conditionally lowering prices you also create an extra incentive for people to hold off putting their games on steam in the hope of getting a special deal.
Simply put, they don’t need to. Linux might be a tiny percentage of the market but thanks largely to steam deck it is growing, which means it’s starting to become more worth it for companies to make sure their game works on it.
Secondly, thanks to proton, some games don’t even need to be modified to support Linux or the steam deck. I play plenty of games that are listed as unplayable or unverified on my steam deck, and sometimes it is listed that way because of one or two minor things that haven’t broken the game for me.
And lastly, as every major company has found out one by one, it’s worth it for them to pay the 30% to get access to steam users.
I think every single one here missed my point. Oh well
Even with your clarification, I think I touched on that. Steam isn’t trying to push companies to develop for Linux, instead they are trying to make Linux more compatible with games. That’s why they’ve talked wine and turned it into a very game specific thing called proton.
If they wanted to push people to develop for Linux, they wouldn’t put so much time and effort into developing something that removes that need
Lenovo is dropping their steamdeck clone thing too…companies are chasing money now
Because they’re not some parasitic company that needs to buy up and incentivise games to come to your platform.
Releasing on steam deck will bring more sales. I don’t even own a steam deck and will only buy steam deck titles myself.
