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Epic Games Store is offering developers 100% of revenue for six months of exclusivity (www.videogameschronicle.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Epic First Run programme allows developers of any size to claim 100% of revenue if they agree to make their game exclusive on the Epic Games Store for six months.

After the six months are up, the game will revert to the standard Epic Games Store revenue split of 88% for the developer and 12% for Epic Games.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Competition for dev's is fine, its the exclusivity deals that show them to be evil.

Offer devs a better cut of the profits, devs can sell the game for less on Epic and make the same money as steam... a real price war to reduce fees. The devs and customers would naturally follow.

But Epic has demonstrated they want to take advantage of their "customers"... so many reasonable people are like... Steam is the devil we know, a chill devil we can get a beer with, and eat some hot dogs on the weeknds with, The Lowbowski of devils.... were good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not inplying compition between devs is bad, its just if you go for devs and little for the consumer, it would make sense at a consumer standpoint, that's not competition.

The mistake a lot of Pro Epic defenders make is equivalating that all forms of competition is equally great for everyone, when it isn't.