Epic Offers New Games Commission-Free Exclusivity

Epic Offers New Games Commission-Free Exclusivity
[Aug 23, 2023, 7:47 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

The Epic First Run Program is a new initiative from Epic Games to encourage developers and publishers to release games exclusively on the Epic Games Store. For eligible products that launch after October 16th as six-month exclusives, Epic will forego its normal 12% commission and allow the creators to collect 100% of the proceeds of all sales. New releases without preexisting exclusivity deals with the Epic Games Store are eligible. Games can even still be sold on other stores as long as they use Epic's Access Keys System. Word is: "We are currently integrated with Green Man Gaming, Fanatical, Genba Digital, Humble Bundle and more." So, to summarize:

Epic First Run is an opt-in exclusivity program that offers third-party developers 100% net revenue of user spending on eligible products in their first six months of exclusivity on the Epic Games Store. When the exclusivity period ends, the revenue share captured from user spending will revert to 88%/12%.

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Re: Epic Offers New Games Commission-Free Exclusivity
Aug 24, 2023, 22:42

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Re: Epic Offers New Games Commission-Free Exclusivity Aug 24, 2023, 22:42

Aug 24, 2023, 22:42

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MeanJim wrote on Aug 24, 2023, 20:48:
Nucas wrote on Aug 24, 2023, 00:24:
you guys are missing that this extends to key sites as well. so you can get your title in front of people on humble, GMG, fanatical, and sell discounted keys to gamers, but they activate on epic game store and you get to keep everything.
So, just like how Steam keys work. Valve doesn't take a cut from the sales of Steam keys. Valve only gets a cut if the sale is directly from the Steam store. People keep forgetting this.

In most cases, the publisher doesn't get a cut from key sales, making them a lose-lose for Valve and platform but a win-win for gamers and key sellers.

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