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Epic Games Store is offering developers 100% of revenue for six months of exclusivity (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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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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[+] -21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I never truly understood the hate for epic. They've made some of the best games of all time, give away 1-2 games for free every single week, and they ensure that most annoying kids are in fortnite and not games that adults want to play. Oh noooo. You have to open a separate launcher to play your video game! The horror!

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    No review system for games, no return policy, no community tabs or markets, no appear offline mode, they allow shitcoins and nfts on their platform, forcing their launcher onto games they own (Rocket League that launches through Epic but I bought it on Steam), collecting a metric fuckton of user data and input, and finally very close connections with Tencent. Sure i'm missing a bunch more.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    One more thing - really annoying how if you click a game in the sidebar it launches it instead of going to the game in your library. It'd be fine to have a smaller launch button in the same space, but having the whole thing do it is not very intuitive.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, if that launcher is not so suck ass at what it does that I have to resort to Heroic Launcher. Not to mention some of the games on Epic just... weird, like Epic Skyrim doesn't work with SKSE

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