source?no, If you get a key and activate it on steam, steam doesn't cut money, steam isn't epic guys
source?no, If you get a key and activate it on steam, steam doesn't cut money, steam isn't epic guys

"As a Steamworks developer I can say that Steam doesn’t get a cut of third party sales on platforms like Humble Bundle and Green Man Gaming. We request a batch of keys from Valve and they approve or deny them for us to release. After that the transaction of the keys is between the developers and the third party sales site." (link)source?
my tought. The Workshop alone makes Steam very worthy for the PC COmmunity. Let alone the Rating system etc.

Nexus mods is annoying to use and Skyrim was not ruined by Steam, Skyrim was ruined by having to have atleast 5 mods to be even playable and 6-7 to even be fun and thats at the very least, i had a friend suggest me mods for Skyrim, they came with a list of 58 must have mods.They provide no service that is required by anyone but an indie company to help generate sales and fund their games.Have you not noticed how this game has had no issues at all without the Workshop? Use NexusMods.
And Steam is a bane to any game that uses mods since it just loves to force you to update your game no matter what you do which is a constant mod breaker. Games like Skyrim got an automatic download of a cracked game exe to bypass Steam so my mods would not break and I do believe that cracked file had been downloaded some 15+ million times across the most popular sites showing just how many people hate Steam, and that was just one of the many games that Steam just plain ruins.
Now go compare some games that force games to only use mods on the Workshop...The latest releases of games like Total War have less than 20% of the mods that Total Wars games had 4+ years ago. This is across all the games that have pre Steam releases and Workshop only releases. To create a major annoyance when its not needed is just...lol...why?
And Steam is a bane to any game that uses mods since it just loves to force you to update your game no matter what you do which is a constant mod breaker. Games like Skyrim got an automatic download of a cracked game exe to bypass Steam so my mods would not break and I do believe that cracked file had been downloaded some 15+ million times across the most popular sites showing just how many people hate Steam, and that was just one of the many games that Steam just plain ruins.
Now go compare some games that force games to only use mods on the Workshop...The latest releases of games like Total War have less than 20% of the mods that Total Wars games had 4+ years ago. This is across all the games that have pre Steam releases and Workshop only releases. To create a major annoyance when its not needed is just...lol...why?

What? it wont be expensive, its its 10 euros less than a AAA titel. Why would comments in this thread make you confused as to you will buy or not? its about weather to buy on steam or taleworlds to reward taleworlds for being a great company. What are you talking about not playing a test version? do you mean the beta? i have been waiting for Bannerlord since 2012, i only got my beta key yesterday, im more motivated than ever to play it when it comes out in one week. Do you mean a demo? EA releases rarely have demos. EA in it self is kind of a test version, you will be able to play that.I am very confused guys after your comments if to buy bannerlord or not- I have been waiting many years and hard times (with depression) for the Bannerlord release...but now it seems that Bannerlord will be expensive and I will be not even able to play a test version as a reward for waiting 4 years- i lost my motivation for Bannerlord.....
I am very confused guys after your comments if to buy bannerlord or not- I have been waiting many years and hard times (with depression) for the Bannerlord release...but now it seems that Bannerlord will be expensive and I will be not even able to play a test version as a reward for waiting 4 years- i lost my motivation for Bannerlord.....
And might I stress again it's literally a week away? If you've kept up with bannerlord over the years it shouldn't come as a surprise that the price tag is what it is. Give it a month or something till you can afford it easier. By then people on the forums will be able to tell you if it's worth it to buy at the time, where you can best purchase it, etc.What? it wont be expensive, its its 10 euros less than a AAA titel. Why would comments in this thread make you confused as to you will buy or not? its about weather to buy on steam or taleworlds to reward taleworlds for being a great company. What are you talking about not playing a test version? do you mean the beta? i have been waiting for Bannerlord since 2012, i only got my beta key yesterday, im more motivated than ever to play it when it comes out in one week. Do you mean a demo? EA releases rarely have demos. EA in it self is kind of a test version, you will be able to play that.
First of, most of the "15 Million" People woudnt even know about Mods if it werent for Steam.
Steam has brought PC gaming to a new Level. Simple as that.
Without Steam, the battle against Consoles woud be long lost.
Not like this hellhole Epic Store.
Nexus mods is annoying to use and Skyrim was not ruined by Steam, Skyrim was ruined by having to have atleast 5 mods to be even playable and 6-7 to even be fun and thats at the very least, i had a friend suggest me mods for Skyrim, they came with a list of 58 must have mods.

People use nexus mods for Skyrim because it needs so many different mods to even work, because its an unfinished game. Nexus mods is better than steam workshop when your game needs multiple complete overhaul mods to make the game playable.Your personal opinion of the game is not a defense of Steam. I ask you to point to a single mod on the Workshop that is within 300,000 downloads of any of the top 100 downloaded mods on NexusMods for Skyrim.
Go on...all Skyrim players had to have Steam so there is ZERO reason for NexusMods to have remotely close to the amount of downloads from the Workshop since ALL players must use the Steam client...if you cannot find 1 its proof that the overwhelming majority of the millions of Skyrim players have chosen an outside site, with an outside mod-controller over the one the company tried to force everyone to use.
Now answer why...Steam Workshop blows.
"As a Steamworks developer I can say that Steam doesn’t get a cut of third party sales on platforms like Humble Bundle and Green Man Gaming. We request a batch of keys from Valve and they approve or deny them for us to release. After that the transaction of the keys is between the developers and the third party sales site." (link)
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that "yet we are bearing the costs" part
and here
certain answer to your question
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys
the first sentence here
People use nexus mods for Skyrim because it needs so many different mods to even work, because its an unfinished game. Nexus mods is better than steam workshop when your game needs multiple complete overhaul mods to make the game playable.
Thank you, will buy on this website then"As a Steamworks developer I can say that Steam doesn’t get a cut of third party sales on platforms like Humble Bundle and Green Man Gaming. We request a batch of keys from Valve and they approve or deny them for us to release. After that the transaction of the keys is between the developers and the third party sales site." (link)