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Originally Posted by DarkKiller
I hardly belive that. Lets take for example a game like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (I don't like the game but it's okay for my example). I guess the game is 7 gb large. Lets say in my whole life time I would download it 10 times which generates 70 gb of traffic. 30% of 49.99€ is 15€. So you say that steam pays 0.21€ per gb of traffic? Either the managment of Steam is very stupid or I am pretty bad informed about very high traffic prices in the US or you don't have any idea what you are talking about.
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Well, the 30% seems to be commonly spread around. Wether or not it's true is probably a different thing, but it's probably a good average.
You might download MW3 10 times, i highly doubt it's the average. I don't think i downloaded any game i have on steam more than 5 times, most games probably just once or twice. And very few were in the ~5 GB range.
And i don't think that Valve pays the same for a GB of traffic as the average user does.
But even if 30% would be too low for Steam to make profit, as you are suggesting, it shows relatively clearly that Desastersoft has a point in not supplying re-downloads for free. Which kind of proves, that he
does know what he's talking about.
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Yes indeed, I think they've lost more revenue in lost sales due to this little episode than they ever would from offering repeat downloads for legitimate customers.
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Actually, this topic made me visit Desastersofts website for the first time. And i'm a bit tempted to order now, to be honest (and make a backup
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If i wouldn't order anything from a developer that shows lacking customer support or has a bad reputation, i don't think i would've ordered anything at all in the past few years. Certainly not this flightsim.
