2 hours ago, Chuck_Jodry-VJPL said:

Building a product is the beginning , building trust is harder still , If the development community gets behind the project then there is a chance it will work , We devs have been stung before by retailers who do not send royalties or reports of sales , often and continually, by big names and small. He may well have a clean reputation but needs to overcome our trepidation over the myriad transgressions of contracts both past and current .

That is not going to be easy , second ,  established developers have their own websites that retail directly and avoid the distribution fees entirely when sales are through their own portal , I would expect them to maintain their current set of distributors making Simstall  yet one more portal.

Bottom line , he has quite a selling job to convince developers that this isn't just another portal.  

 

Best CJ

 

Matt has said in past streams that he will only take less than 10% as a publisher and developers will keep over 90%

That would help your trust issues, at least at first.

Whether you should trust Matt in the long term, or the money behind the scenes that reminds me of Bain Capital, is a difficult choice!

1 hour ago, Bobsk8 said:

 I never said I was concerned, where did you read that? I simply stated that it is well known that is what Steam charges, and I can't see many developers that market through their own websites, flocking to steam. Stay calm, nobody is attacking anyone, just stating a fact. 

There really aren't that many I can think of that don't actually use 3rd party websites to sell their products already(PMDG, FSLabs, ORBX mainly). But even with a 30% cut being taken off at the checkout it opens their items to the masses. For example you could try and sell it at full price on your own site and only sell 200 copies, or you could use a marketplace website and sell 3000. So it works both ways. The advantage the likes of ORBX and PMDG have is they are so well know they don't need the extra promotion, if people want their products they know where to go already. 

The problem the likes of Dovetail had on steam is, steam auto takes 30%, then dovetail wanted a 30% cut which is understandably a lot to stomach for anyone willing to sell there.

Edited May 18, 20188 yr by Litmoose