▲ 815 ▼ Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable (kotaku.com) submitted 2 years ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/games@lemmy.world 329 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Rose@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Can you provide any evidence for this? The documents from the Apple trial showed fixed and round figures for every single giveaway. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Maestro@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yes, but those buyout prices aren't negotiated in a vacuum. When the number of entitlements goes up, studios will demand higher buyout prices. There's a reason free game quality has been lackluster lately. Studios demand a higher buyouts and Epic doesn't want to spend too much money, so they go with smaller titles. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Rose@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I'm pretty sure the prices are based on the projected sales using industry knowledge and tools like SteamSpy, created by Epic's head of the publishing strategy at the time. It's not common that a publisher participating in a giveaway would get to use their own figures from a prior giveaway to change the price offered by Epic, while the others' figures are available only for the games in those leaks. In other words, claiming many copies in the present is extremely unlikely to have any effect on the future buyout prices. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Maestro@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yes, but those buyout prices aren't negotiated in a vacuum. When the number of entitlements goes up, studios will demand higher buyout prices. There's a reason free game quality has been lackluster lately. Studios demand a higher buyouts and Epic doesn't want to spend too much money, so they go with smaller titles. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Rose@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I'm pretty sure the prices are based on the projected sales using industry knowledge and tools like SteamSpy, created by Epic's head of the publishing strategy at the time. It's not common that a publisher participating in a giveaway would get to use their own figures from a prior giveaway to change the price offered by Epic, while the others' figures are available only for the games in those leaks. In other words, claiming many copies in the present is extremely unlikely to have any effect on the future buyout prices. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Rose@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I'm pretty sure the prices are based on the projected sales using industry knowledge and tools like SteamSpy, created by Epic's head of the publishing strategy at the time. It's not common that a publisher participating in a giveaway would get to use their own figures from a prior giveaway to change the price offered by Epic, while the others' figures are available only for the games in those leaks. In other words, claiming many copies in the present is extremely unlikely to have any effect on the future buyout prices. permalink fedilink source parent
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