Compared to just the last month of the fully released version of DayZ on Steam, it has received 75% positive and only 25% negative reviews.Īll of these aspects play into why Escape from Tarkov is not on Steam. So much that over its time on Steam it has received 64% positive reviews with 36% negative. DayZ started out as an Alpha on Steam and it received many poor reviews right away. Therefore, when they are playing a beta with some bugs or certain aspects not fully functioning, they will voice their negative opinion. Many users expect titles on Steam to be finished and polished. This, along with the negative reviews that betas typically receive on Steam, could be detrimental to Escape from Tarkov. For an independent developer with no investment parties, that would be a significant hinderance for development. So, for a game that charges $44.99 for the EFT beta, that would be about $13.50 for each sale going to Steam. From there, developers with revenue between $10 million and $50 million the split adjusts to 75%/25% and developers with revenue over $50 million it adjusts again to 80%/20%. For developers with under $10 million in revenue there is a 70%/30% split between the developer and Steam respectively. At the end of 2018, Steam announced a new revenue split for game developers selling on their platform.
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Listen to the full presentation, “ Self-Publishing a Hardcore Title” on Youtube.īasically, as the development team was starting out, they could not afford to put Escape from Tarkov on Steam for both financial and reputation reasons. And, of course, we didn’t want to pay Steam lots of money… It’s just about the initial starting process of the game, we didn’t want these negative overviews to influence people’s opinion. So, for us, it was a good idea to start from our own platform. Many developers start working on a project and they wait for reasonable and well supported feedback, but it’s not this way.
At the White Nights conference in 2018, Nikita stated the following,
Nikita Buyanov, the COO of the game developer responsible for EFT, Battlestate Games, has spoken about this briefly in a presentation on releasing a hardcore title. Will Escape from Tarkov ever be released on Steam? Maybe. Will Escape from Tarkov be on Steam soon? No. With the huge peak of interest in Escape from Tarkov recently, many people are asking if we will see an Escape from Tarkov Steam release.