Jim's video is bang-on about most things, as lashman has pointed out.
The only things he keeps getting wrong are:
-he says Valve takes a 33% cut, when its really 20-30% depending on revenue. And he doesnt mention Valve's cut is reduced further by all the fees that they eat instead of the dev/pub + free keys for devs to sell outside of steam (EGS takes 12% for keys too, iirc). Steam Cash Cards cost Valve quite a bit of money but make up a large portion of transactions, especially in Asia (Tom Giordano did a presentation @GDC about this)
-he also says Steam is overloaded by asset flips etc, and he keeps saying that. I really like what Jim does, and have watched his stuff for years now, but the Steam store page just adjusts itself to what you buy, prefer, play, etc... and he focused so much on these shit games in the past, and kinda still does, that of course he will see these more often. I never see games like that, because I never buy or play them. On my store page, there arent any asset flips.
Whats true is, is that Steam is FULL of games. But as has been said a ton of times: what does he suggest? arbitrary curation a la GOG/EGS? I prefer Steam's free for all to that.
-and of course he calls some Steam communities toxic, and the overuse of the word "toxic" everywhere aside, online communities just are like that when they get to a certain size, its a sad reality these days. That doesnt mean we should just accept it, of course, but a platform of Steams size can only do so much to battle that.
The only things he keeps getting wrong are:
-he says Valve takes a 33% cut, when its really 20-30% depending on revenue. And he doesnt mention Valve's cut is reduced further by all the fees that they eat instead of the dev/pub + free keys for devs to sell outside of steam (EGS takes 12% for keys too, iirc). Steam Cash Cards cost Valve quite a bit of money but make up a large portion of transactions, especially in Asia (Tom Giordano did a presentation @GDC about this)
-he also says Steam is overloaded by asset flips etc, and he keeps saying that. I really like what Jim does, and have watched his stuff for years now, but the Steam store page just adjusts itself to what you buy, prefer, play, etc... and he focused so much on these shit games in the past, and kinda still does, that of course he will see these more often. I never see games like that, because I never buy or play them. On my store page, there arent any asset flips.
Whats true is, is that Steam is FULL of games. But as has been said a ton of times: what does he suggest? arbitrary curation a la GOG/EGS? I prefer Steam's free for all to that.
-and of course he calls some Steam communities toxic, and the overuse of the word "toxic" everywhere aside, online communities just are like that when they get to a certain size, its a sad reality these days. That doesnt mean we should just accept it, of course, but a platform of Steams size can only do so much to battle that.
