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. 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.