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 Exclusivity Deal
Aug 25, 2023, 17:13

Sepharo

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Re: Epic Exclusivity Deal Aug 25, 2023, 17:13

Aug 25, 2023, 17:13

Sepharo

thestryker wrote on Aug 25, 2023, 16:57:
Verno wrote on Aug 25, 2023, 16:33:
I thought you were actually asking in good faith but pretty clear that’s not the case.
You gave nothing but bad faith reasoning so you shouldn't be surprised by my response.

I assumed that he detected that you were one of these people who will pretend to be oblivious to Steam's myriad features.
Or if you're willing to acknowledge their existence, will just claim they're useless.

If you only see these as game launchers or as an obstacle between you and the game... then you won't possibly be able to understand why someone would prefer the feature-rich Steam over another launcher.