Say what you want about Steam and how it operates, but the platform has built a robust following and a massive market share percentage. So, what does this mean? It means there is more to the value of a platform than just a revenue split agreement. Activision Blizzard had also been off of Steam for some time but recently came back to the platform. “We’re constantly evaluating how to bring our games to different audiences wherever they are, while providing a consistent player ecosystem through Ubisoft Connect,” a Ubisoft spokesperson said in a statement provided to the press. Ubisoft has also told Eurogamer that 2019’s Anno 1800 and Roller Champions will be coming to Steam, confirming earlier rumors to that effect. Well, it’s three years later, and if you want to take the temperature on how well Epic is doing in keeping publishers away from Steam, guess who just got back on Valve’s platform?Ī page for 2020’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was officially added to Steam Monday, listing a December 6 launch date on the platform. At the time, the company said Steam’s revenue split made remaining on the store unattractive. Ubisoft was one of the publishers that jumped into Epic’s arrangement back in 2019. In general, the public sentiment was essentially: yes, pay publishers more, but to hell with your exclusives.

This led to all kinds of public reactions, particularly as Epic began gobbling up game and publisher exclusives as part of that revenue split offering. The crux of the situation was that Epic began offering a far better revenue split for game publishers compared with Steam, with something like a 10-20% delta in how much of the revenue Epic takes versus Steam. It’s been a long while since we last discussed the platform war that started between Steam and Epic several years back. Thu, Dec 1st 2022 08:01pm - Timothy Geigner

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