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%.
Sepharo wrote on Aug 25, 2023, 17:13:thestryker wrote on Aug 25, 2023, 16:57:Verno wrote on Aug 25, 2023, 16:33:You gave nothing but bad faith reasoning so you shouldn't be surprised by my response.
I thought you were actually asking in good faith but pretty clear that’s not the case.
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.
That's basically what it comes down to. You don't care...other people do. A LOT of other people from the looks of things...and that's what matters.
Did the lot of you also NOT buy Diablo 4 because of the horrible reputation Blizzard has over the things it has done to employees for years. How many of you did not buy an EA game because of the wrongful things it has done to its employees. How about Ubisoft? No?
For some strange reason...Steam is the whipping post of the day because they are bigger than Epic and deserve to be taken down because how dare they stop making games you want and run a successful online store? The horror!!!
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