#game-monetization

#game-monetization

Valve benefits from any panicked trading in the short term, with every Steam Marketplace sale carrying a 5 percent "Steam Transaction Fee" on top of a 10 percent " Counter-Strike 2 fee... that is determined and collected by the game publisher" (read: Valve). In the long term, though, making some of the rarest items in the game easier to obtain will likely depress overall spending among the whales that dominate the market.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been through a hell of a journey to reach us. At last night's Opening Night Live from Gamescom, Paradox revealed the long-delayed game finally has a release date, October 21. What the publisher didn't boast about was is that it is locking two out of the six playable clans behind paid day-one DLC, and it'll cost you an extra $30 to unlock them. A third of the ways to play the game.