How much does it cost to add cloud support to a game?

[hinti21]

How much would the devs have to pay to add steam cloud support to their game?
Can the community get a game cloud supported too?

[Satoru]

Steamworks itself is free. But its up to the developer to add such functionality by using the Steamworks API into their game

[Black Blade]

It cost them nothing more then the work to implant it into the game

[hinti21]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Steamworks itself is free. But its up to the developer to add such functionality by using the Steamworks API into their game

So you say cloud support is free? Steam offers free server space for any dev? I can hardly believe that :/

[Black Blade]

The Dev put there games on Steam... and the cloud is not given to the Dev but for the users that play the game and that buy it

[Fork_Q2]

Originally posted by hinti21:

How much would the devs have to pay to add steam cloud support to their game?
Can the community get a game cloud supported too?

Also mind you, there appears to be a cloud save size limit for different games. A single save for the original Deus Ex when you are roughly half-way through the game is close to 200MBs, many games that use this appear to use around or more 100 MBs.

[hinti21]

Originally posted by Black Blade (Study again \(-.-)/:

The Dev put there games on Steam... and the cloud is not given to the Dev but for the users that play the game and that buy it

So it really is free meaning it costs the devs nothing. Wow.

[Fork_Q2]

Originally posted by hinti21:

Originally posted by Black Blade (Study again \(-.-)/:

The Dev put there games on Steam... and the cloud is not given to the Dev but for the users that play the game and that buy it

So it really is free meaning it costs the devs nothing. Wow.

Implementing Steamworks and all the benefits is certainly free:

http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/

Steam might charge extra for certain additions, Cloud Save is free, but I am sure up to a point and within reason.

[Black Blade]

well not really all that true... while your game is not Free To Play Valve dose take some % of your profit... so you that is a way to pay for it...
And they give more then just Cloud space.. they also give you a forum a place to show art-work of the game a way to connect the user
A store page

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Fork_Q:

Originally posted by hinti21:

So it really is free meaning it costs the devs nothing. Wow.

Implementing Steamworks and all the benefits is certainly free:

http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/

Steam might charge extra for certain additions, Cloud Save is free, but I am sure up to a point and within reason.

SteamCloud limitations are

1GB per-user per-game
100MB per-file limit

[hinti21]

Originally posted by Black Blade (Study again \(-.-)/:

well not really all that true... while your game is not Free To Play Valve dose take some % of your profit... so you that is a way to pay for it...

Which is fair, I guess. Sice they "ship and deliver" your games to a huge community and thus open a big market for you as a dev.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by hinti21:

Originally posted by Black Blade (Study again \(-.-)/:

well not really all that true... while your game is not Free To Play Valve dose take some % of your profit... so you that is a way to pay for it...

Which is fair, I guess. Sice they "ship and deliver" your games to a huge community and thus open a big market for you as a dev.

True but it's not really different than shipping on any other digital store. The standard for digital stores is 30% (Humble store is the only exception taking sub-10% from their widget). So if you sell a game on Amazon, or GMG, or Steam, each platform takes 30%. So the fact that Stea mtakes 30% is somewhat moot since 'someone' is taking that somewhere.

"In theory" if you sold 0 copies on steam directly, but used Steamworks, steam would not actually re-coup any costs associated with your usage of the infrastructure.

[Black Blade]

Originally posted by Satoru:

True but it's not really different than shipping on any other digital store. The standard for digital stores is 30% (Humble store is the only exception taking sub-10% from their widget). So if you sell a game on Amazon, or GMG, or Steam, each platform takes 30%. So the fact that Stea mtakes 30% is somewhat moot since 'someone' is taking that somewhere.

"In theory" if you sold 0 copies on steam directly, but used Steamworks, steam would not actually re-coup any costs associated with your usage of the infrastructure.

or if you just sale the game on your own site giving out keys like that...

[Fork_Q2]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by Fork_Q:

Implementing Steamworks and all the benefits is certainly free:

http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/

Steam might charge extra for certain additions, Cloud Save is free, but I am sure up to a point and within reason.

SteamCloud limitations are

1GB per-user per-game
100MB per-file limit

Do you have a source for the per file size limit?

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Fork_Q:

Originally posted by Satoru:

SteamCloud limitations are

1GB per-user per-game
100MB per-file limit

Do you have a source for the per file size limit?

Its on the steamworks API page though you have to log in to see tha info (I'm not supposed to tell you this stuff sshhhhhhhh) :P

[Fork_Q2]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by Fork_Q:

Do you have a source for the per file size limit?

Its on the steamworks API page though you have to log in to see tha info (I'm not supposed to tell you this stuff sshhhhhhhh) :P

Fair enough.