01-24-2013, 01:10 AM
I remembered a funny story just now.
In an interview EA attacked Steam saying that because of their sales, game devs are getting less and less money and that Valve promotes pirating games through their sale.
After that article went public, Gaben, or a different Steam rep came out and explained that Steam Sales provide a better way for game devs to grow and distribute their product, since the sales make it more accessible for more people to buy these games and netting the developer and publisher more money when they release a new game, since more people will be open to that developer's games.
This is heavily paraphrased, I don't have a link to the source, sadly.
In an interview EA attacked Steam saying that because of their sales, game devs are getting less and less money and that Valve promotes pirating games through their sale.
After that article went public, Gaben, or a different Steam rep came out and explained that Steam Sales provide a better way for game devs to grow and distribute their product, since the sales make it more accessible for more people to buy these games and netting the developer and publisher more money when they release a new game, since more people will be open to that developer's games.
This is heavily paraphrased, I don't have a link to the source, sadly.