Steam has no Battlefront game. It’s possible you meant another title or platform.
Steam has no Battlefront game. It’s possible you meant another title or platform.
Valve doesn't do their own QA for patches for games on their service. GoG does, but Steam / Valve doesn't. As far as I'm aware, there isn't a history of Steam receiving patches later than other services, and Steam typically receives patches quickly. Any QA done on EA games on Steam will be handled by EA, and not Valve. Valve's 30% cut from sales is less than the cost to sell a physical copy game in a store. Also, Microsoft and Sony both take a fee for every game sold on their systems. Then there's transportation costs, retail store costs... before Steam, it was normal for a PC game developer to keep, in very good scenarios, perhaps only 10% of the profits of their games sold. With Steam, they get to keep up to 70%, if they don't involve another publisher. Steam turned the health of the PC games industry around. Prices are not higher on Steam due to Steam's cut, which has set the standard for the digital PC games industry, and before EA started doing Origin exclusives, prices were not cheaper on Origin compared to Steam - at times they were actually higher.