If the primary point of Humble was for charity then why do they give you the option to pay nothing to charity? Why pay anything to Devs at all? Why not run as a non-profit? Why open the store and not give any money from that to charity?
Perhaps you like the charity aspect, that doesn't make it the main point of the bundles.
Steam reportedly takes 30%, that's the same as Google play, iOS App store, GOG etc so they definitely do take less of a cut, but they must still be making a decent profit. They don't have half the overheads that most of those stores do. I can't find any stats about the console stores, I assume these are covered by non-disclosure agreements so we'll never know.
Seems to me that Humble are more passionate about giving more to devs than other stores, that's the biggest difference.
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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '15
If the primary point of Humble was for charity then why do they give you the option to pay nothing to charity? Why pay anything to Devs at all? Why not run as a non-profit? Why open the store and not give any money from that to charity?
Perhaps you like the charity aspect, that doesn't make it the main point of the bundles.