Steam has had a ‘rough’ year, but Valve plans to work on game discoverability algorithms, expansion into China, and expanding tools to tackle toxicity.
The Division 2 will be offered exclusively on Epic’s storefront, leaving Steam users to make the move to uPlay or Epic Games Store.
Steam competitor, Epic Games Store, is already disrupting the industry less than a week after launch, with several indie games jumping from Valve’s storefront in favor of Epic’s 88/12 revenue split.
SuperGiant Games’ new title, Hades, and A44’s Ashen are the first heavy-hitting exclusives on Epic Games Store’s marketplace.
The developer behind Steam Spy has been a controversial figure in the past.
A year of successful disruption has positioned Epic to turn the screws on Valve on behalf of developers.
The Fortnite publisher is banking on its foundational success to undercut the reigning king of digital game sales, and game developers are at least somewhat split on how it will pan out.
Steam unveiled a multi-tiered Distribution Agreement that provides publishers a bigger share of revenue at $10m and $50m in sales, drawing ire from the indie game dev community.
Developers who didn’t confirm their Australian pricing are scrambling to fix the problem.
More tech companies are employing a bug bounty program.
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