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Epic Games Store is offering developers 100% of revenue for six months of exclusivity (www.videogameschronicle.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Not really. Steam is not forcing exclusives on their platform. Them providing a better service doesn’t mean the users are anti-competitive.

EGS explicitly pays developers to not release on other platforms. That’s anti-competitive

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  • [+] -32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Exclusive is the medium not the store

    A pc game on epic is still a pc game. I haven’t heard of epic preventing devs from releasing on Xbox

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    EGS is a platform, Steam is a platform. They are both stores and their own ecosystems.

    They are paying for forced exclusives to their platform. I’m not going to use a different platform even on my same device because it’s anti-competitive for pc gaming.

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  • [+] -17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You aren’t going to promote competition because it’s anti competitive

    If a game was offered on both platforms do you think people are more likely to get it on Epic than Steam? If not then they have to be exclusive to their store

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That’s not my problem. That’s still being anti-competitive. If one platform is significantly better (eg steam) then the competition needs to offer a reason to buy from them. The problem is that EGS has decided that the only way to give users a reason to use their store has been to make sure the game isn’t available anywhere else.

    The users are able to make the choice to not support poor business tactics and they have. People do not buy from EGS, due to a plethora of reasons, one of which is likely that they are extremely anti-competitive and buy out games.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    You aren’t going to promote competition because it’s anti competitive

    A store doesn't have the right to my business just because it exists. If I started a PC game store and charged twice as much as Steam or Epic would you purchase from me just to support competition?

    A business needs to give me a reason to purchase from them. If the best reason to purchase from Epic is to give them a participation award then no thank you.

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