Discord joins the war against Steam and will offer 90% of the revenue to developers
After many years of hegemony, it seems that Steam will start receiving serious competition. Not for the part of the user, where he has always had it, but for the part of the developers. If a few days ago it was Epic Games that launched the Epic Games Store, with few games but with the condition that the developers would remain 88% of the revenue, Discord that up the ante. As of 2019 they will expand access to the Discord store just announced and to their "extremely efficient game patching" by launching a self-publishing platform. In it you can sell from a developer who has written his first game at home to large studios that launch triple-A games. Compared to the 12% of the creators of Fortnite, or the 30% that remains Steam of the price of each game sold, Discord will be left with only 10%, so the developers will take 90%. Until now, there has not been much opposition, and in the largest software store in the world, Apple's App Store on iOS, is also practiced 30%. In...