Epic keeps impressing me, they made Microsoft, the guys behind Games For Windows Live and the Windows Store
It has nothing to do with Epic. MS is going into netfix of gaming. They want to combine every platform there is and then use gamepass.
Their gamepass basically is every game they make released on day one for subscription fee monthly + other games they sign deals on.
For example you could pay 70$ for Forza Horizon or you could just buy gamepass for 10$ (or 1$ on pc) and play it there. This goes for every of their exclusive game from FH4.
500k sales on such a short notice for such a game would mean it is a mega one hit wonder and yet theres no real buzz for this game anywhere (no on reddit, no on any actual forum, not on twitch, not even on youtube).
That is normal. Steam people buy games but not play them. Epic store is probably 75% fortine kids who don't know what Steam even is so they probably don't know that you can buy game and don't play it.
Pretty weird watching Valve and Kickstarter let Epic ravage their customers' anuses like this
Well it is not like they are used to competition.
This is pretty illegal in most countries LoL,do hope they get their assess sued.
It would be illegal if Epic was in Steam place but they are not. It requires first huge share on market.
strange how "people" on twitter saying shit like "STEAM SHOULD LOWER THEIR PERCENTAGE" never mention Xbox or Sony, which has the same percentage.
Sony, Apple, MS, GOG and almost everyone who deals with digital entertainment set 30% cut precisely because they watched Steam.
Steam itself chose 30% not because of costs but because it was way better than usual 50% of physical good market.
If you would have any brain you would notice that if whole industry have exact same cut it means this is racket to fuck you out of money. I know no other industry that has same cut across whole market. Epic doing 12% actually forced Steam to change at least for AAA to 20% while they still charge indies 30%. Let me repeat. Epic forced steam to actually compete in market. Discrod now i think charges even 11% less than Epic.
Just want to pop in to this sidebar for a moment to say that Discord is garbage as a substantial communication tool.
"I just want to say that paper is mistake"
What a colossal load of shit.
No. And quit claiming this is for gamer benefit, the transparent cash grab is transparent.
Welcome to capitalism comrade. In capitalism companies want to fuck each other out competing and the winner is called consumer. Sometimes though they talk to each other or behave like they work together and agree that they should not compete with each other. How about we set up 30% cut for games across industry ? DA !
I still remember in my country when there were 3 telecoms offering mobiles and charged 0.20$ per SMS then suddenly Play joined market. Not only they signed deals for 3G phones they even gave them away for just signing deal with them. Suddenly market start to churn because due to Play giving away new awesome phones for nothing people started to use their services. That gave them enough push and suprise suprise after 4 years SMS went down to 0$ and plans went from minutes of free talk to hours in the end reaching free sms and free conversations all you want for standard price.