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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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[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're running a platform based on selling games, you need games to sell. So of course developers are the target, that's been true since the first consoles were released. It's why Nintendo lost ground with the N64, why the PSP failed, why the Dreamcast failed.

[–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not what Tim Sweeney was saying, he was saying they didn't need to improve EGS to woo customers because developers would leave Steam for Epic to get the smaller cut anyway. No gaming platform thinks catering publishers and developers should actually outweigh the needs of their customers, or if they did they certainly would never say it out loud lol.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

The history of the Sega Saturn says overwise.