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Unfortunately when selling games on Steam you pay taxes twice. First of all Steam pay VAT all around the world. It's not included in their 30% cut. And then you pay corporate tax from your net profit after Steam or publisher sent royalties your way.

Refunds on Steam can happen after a while so it's important to keep them in mind. If you sold 100 copies of your game 5-10% will be refunded.

> I linked the page where you can find the document where the publisher claims to take 50%.

I havent worked with Raw Fury and wouldn't be able to talk about it then anyway, but:

1 - If a publisher funded your game they will recuperate expenses by taking 70-100% of net profit. After that it can be 50%

2 - Some publishers also include localization, QA, LQA and even marketing budget into recoup amount.



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