Too many Games with TBA

[Girardin71]

Why do you allow Playway and others to flood the store with games that never get released? there are too many games that are over 3 years old that still have no release dates. There should be a rule that games can not be sitting in the store for over 3 years with TBA and no release date.

[Drab]

Report the games via the flag icon on their store page.

[nullable]

I would wager, Playway and others have paid the money for the listing. And Valve doesn't have any particular need to police that.

[my new friend]

Playway has a ton of games both released and coming soon/TBA. You know that a big thing happened to the world the past couple years that is extending development time for games?

[JPMcMillen]

Better TBA than being eternally stuck in Early Access.

[primeinsurrection]

I dont understand why people buy games on Steam when you can buy them direct and you can actually own the game and not need third party permission to play it. At a higher price on that.

[my new friend]

Originally posted by primeinsurrection:

I dont understand why people buy games on Steam when you can buy them direct and you can actually own the game and not need third party permission to play it. At a higher price on that.

Not all games are DRM free or physically sold anymore.

[primeinsurrection]

Originally posted by my new friend:

Originally posted by primeinsurrection:

I dont understand why people buy games on Steam when you can buy them direct and you can actually own the game and not need third party permission to play it. At a higher price on that.

Not all games are DRM free or physically sold anymore.

Yea, indie games. Thats what Steam is supposed to be for. Not main stream games.
And since Steam tries to force them into exclusivity contracts at 30% instead of the standard 10%, alot of the best games arent sold on Steam.

[my new friend]

Originally posted by primeinsurrection:

Originally posted by my new friend:

Not all games are DRM free or physically sold anymore.

Yea, indie games. Thats what Steam is supposed to be for. Not main stream games.
And since Steam tries to force them into exclusivity contracts at 30% instead of the standard 10%, alot of the best games arent sold on Steam.

When has Valve forced exclusivity on any game title?

[primeinsurrection]

Originally posted by my new friend:

Originally posted by primeinsurrection:

Yea, indie games. Thats what Steam is supposed to be for. Not main stream games.
And since Steam tries to force them into exclusivity contracts at 30% instead of the standard 10%, alot of the best games arent sold on Steam.

When has Valve forced exclusivity on any game title?

I heard thats what they try to do unless its a game they really want. I heard that was a big reason EA doesnt like dealing with them among a few others. Thats just what I have read on websites.

[my new friend]

Originally posted by primeinsurrection:

Originally posted by my new friend:

When has Valve forced exclusivity on any game title?

I heard thats what they try to do unless its a game they really want. I heard that was a big reason EA doesnt like dealing with them among a few others. Thats just what I have read on websites.

EA didn't leave because exclusivity. And EA did come crawling back after 9 years.
And there is no other service that does a 10% cut and it is not the standard. 30% is the standard as seen here. But that was also changed in 2018 to the tier system which EA games tend to fall in the 25-20% categories since they tend to sell enough.

[Aachen]

What will we do when Valve runs out of TBA labels?!

[my new friend]

Originally posted by Aachen:

:homelol: What will we do when Valve runs out of TBA labels?!

Some of them are quite funny. The game developers are really having too much fun with those.

[primeinsurrection]

Originally posted by my new friend:

Originally posted by primeinsurrection:

I heard thats what they try to do unless its a game they really want. I heard that was a big reason EA doesnt like dealing with them among a few others. Thats just what I have read on websites.

EA didn't leave because exclusivity. And EA did come crawling back after 9 years.
And there is no other service that does a 10% cut and it is not the standard. 30% is the standard as seen here. But that was also changed in 2018 to the tier system which EA games tend to fall in the 25-20% categories since they tend to sell enough.

How can you say they didnt leave and then they came crawling back? Which is it?
I believe that was their statement as of one of the reasons they would not do business with them before.
I believe most hosts charge 10%. But I could be mistaken.

[my new friend]

Originally posted by primeinsurrection:

How can you say they didnt leave and then they came crawling back? Which is it?

Did you actually read how I stated it?

Originally posted by my new friend:

EA didn't leave because exclusivity.

Originally posted by my new friend:

And EA did come crawling back after 9 years.

Two separate statements about two separate things. They left because "other" reasons not related to exclusivity and they also came back.

Originally posted by primeinsurrection:

I believe that was their statement as of one of the reasons they would not do business with them before.

"EA cited Valve's "restrictive terms of service" that made it more difficult to distribute patches and DLC through the game client itself." - Not because of exclusivity.

Originally posted by primeinsurrection:

I believe most hosts charge 10%. But I could be mistaken.

You are mistaken.

Originally posted by my new friend:

30% is the standard as seen here.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by primeinsurrection:

Originally posted by my new friend:

Not all games are DRM free or physically sold anymore.

Yea, indie games. Thats what Steam is supposed to be for. Not main stream games.
And since Steam tries to force them into exclusivity contracts at 30% instead of the standard 10%, alot of the best games arent sold on Steam.

There's so much wrong in these statements I don't even know where to start.

Steam was originally made to digitally distribute Valve games like Counter Strike and Half-life. They were certainly mainstream games at the time among the hundreds of mainstream games that came after them once Valve opened the platform to other publishers.

There have not been exclusivity contracts that I'm aware of on Steam. Epic on the otherhand can't seem to get enough of them.

30% commission is standard amount across many industries. It's only recently that other platforms have been challenging that in the video game industry. Steam has responded by issuing a tiered system based on dollars sold.

Steam doesn't need to have all of the "best" games. And weren't you the one that just said Steam was meant for indie games and not mainstream? What direction are you trying to spin this narrative?