Epic Games Store to Launch Soon, Developers to Receive 88% of Revenue

[dj-electric]

All of your points are useless because I don't give a crap.

If you don't give a crap than please don't comment on a matter you have 0 knowledge about. Its better to stay silent and do a quick google search than post an incredibly uninformed comment such is yours at the start of this thread. "uhhh duhhh i don't want another store, who are those Epic people hurrr durrrr", "I don't care about anything so your arguments are invalid durrrr".

A quick "Oh, thanks. Didn't know that" Would solve all those issues.

 

[Octopuss]

If you don't give a crap than please don't comment on a matter you have 0 knowledge about. Its better to stay silent and do a quick google search than post an incredibly uninformed comment such is yours at the start of this thread. "uhhh duhhh i don't want another store, who are those Epic people hurrr durrrr".

Being of an opinion of not wanting yet another gaming store/platform has absolutely nothing to do with being informed or not about game engines or the company who is behind it for f's sake. That's absolutely failed logic.
Besides, I am allowed to have an opinion just like you.


That's the last comment I am going to add here before my brain starts to melt from all the nonsense arguments certain people keep throwing around.

 

[MatGrow]

Finally.
I am waited for too long.

 

[Ubersonic]

/Sigh, another crappy Steam alternative, like Origin/Uplay existing wasn't bad enough >.>

These companies need to understand they're 20 years too late, they had a chance and they blew it, just get behind the product people use instead of trying to create your own ecosystem because all you're doing is hurting your products/customers by making it harder to get your stuff >.>

 

[dj-electric]

/Sigh, another crappy Steam alternative, like Origin/Uplay existing wasn't bad enough >.>

Already judging it might be a mistake. Origin is EA's store. Uplay is Ubisoft's.
What Epic are offering is much like what Valve does, an open platform to all with very attractive rates.
Steam's pseudo monopoly has to be broken, and Epic seem to challenge them. I see exactly 0 problems with this.

 

[Frick]

So is it just a store or is it a platform and client I have to have? If the former, yes, if the latter, no.

 

[kurosagi01]

If they are holding true to what they are saying about their revenue split then i'm all up for it. Developers and others that worked on the games deserve equal credit and respect as the company name and any of the voice actors/motion captures.

 

[StrayKAT]

Already judging it might be a mistake. Origin is EA's store. Uplay is Ubisoft's.
What Epic are offering is much like what Valve does, an open platform to all with very attractive rates.
Steam's pseudo monopoly has to be broken, and Epic seem to challenge them. I see exactly 0 problems with this.

I definitely welcome that.. but to be fair, EA envisioned much the same for Origin. They still sell third party stuff (not that anyone is buying probably).

 

[rtwjunkie]

I definitely welcome that.. but to be fair, EA envisioned much the same for Origin. They still sell third party stuff (not that anyone is buying probably).

I actually got my Vampyr earlier this year on Origin. I just feel Valve should not get my money unless it is the only place to buy a particular game. It was actually trouble free downloading and playing. So, there is at least ONE person that bought a non-EA game from them

 

[holyprof]

As long as they don't make the d*ick move to pull their games from Steam, i'm ok with new stores.

 

[TheOne]

I actually got my username from Unreal Tournament, 15 years ago now.

 

[Totally]

I wonder how long this 88% to Devs is going to last, it's pretty obvious once they're established they're going to start hiking up their rates.

 

[rtwjunkie]

I wonder how long this 88% to Devs is going to last, it's pretty obvious once they're established they're going to start hiking up their rates.

Is it? You’ve got an insider link to their boardroom?

 

[OCQuadNick]

Honestly, i think this is a good thing. At 88% maybe other developers that aren't on steam will possibly migrate to Epic's launcher (IE : Battlenet, MS Games, Orgin, Uplay Ect..)
i would love to only have two programs to run my games!

 

[Ubersonic]

As long as they don't make the d*ick move to pull their games from Steam, i'm ok with new stores.

If they don't pull existing games, or refuse to add new ones that would be cool. But unless they do that most people won't will use this over Steam anyway...

*EDIT*

Just found out UT4 has been cancelled So there won't be any upcoming Epic games to put o Steam or this anyway

 

[StrayKAT]

Epic really has all the clout, tech, and talent to beat Valve. Better chance than others at least. Plus, they still actually make games themselves.. that's always nice.

 

[Totally]

Is it? You’ve got an insider link to their boardroom?

Nope but there's a long list of precedents, this is the textbook 'grand opening sale', latest example off the top of my head being Amazon, ever notice how their prices used to undercut just about everyone and today their prices match and/or sometimes are even more. If I were to bet money UE5 is in the wings and when that is released licensing costs for that are not going to be on the house if their store is doing really well when it comes out.

 

[R-T-B]

Plus, they still actually make games themselves.. that's always nice.

After this takes off, they won't.

I defer to Brad Wardell and his explanation as to why they sold Impulse. In short it was because he liked making games, and Impulse made enough money there really was no way he could find time to do so and justify it.

Just found out UT4 has been cancelled So there won't be any upcoming Epic games to put o Steam or this anyway

Calling it now.

 

[rtwjunkie]

After this takes off, they won't.

I defer to Brad Wardell and his explanation as to why they sold Impulse. In short it was because he liked making games, and Impulse made enough money there really was no way he could find time to do so and justify it.



Calling it now.

I think you're right. It's too easy to make money like this without having to develop games. I actually foresee CDPR heading down that road after Cyberpunk 2077 gets released. I totally can see them content to just sit behind GOG.

 

[StrayKAT]

After this takes off, they won't.

I defer to Brad Wardell and his explanation as to why they sold Impulse. In short it was because he liked making games, and Impulse made enough money there really was no way he could find time to do so and justify it.



Calling it now.

They'd still make UE (and maybe a big title every once in awhile to demo the tech). Even with licensing being cheaper/free to use, it's a cashcow for the royalty fees on big games. I imagine Valve would have done this themselves, if more people cared.

 

[dj-electric]

Calling it now.

Calling it while news that its actually pulling its games from steam are coming out. 9000iq

 

[StrayKAT]

There's already an app out. It's pretty sparse though.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I'm still concerned that Epic Games could get in trouble for waiving the UE4 license fee at Epic Games Store but no where else. That's potentially illegal per se under anti-trust law.

Epic really has all the clout, tech, and talent to beat Valve. Better chance than others at least. Plus, they still actually make games themselves.. that's always nice.

Very, very sparse. Almost all of their games are tech demos for the engine.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I had to reinstall Windows and Epic Games Store didn't auto-detect games already installed. I had to rename the existing folder, make Epic Games Store start the download, quit Epic Games Store, delete the folder it created, rename the game folder back to what it was, start Epic Games Store, and then tell Epic Games Store to resume installing the game. This caused it to verify which made it playable without further downloading. I had three games installed and it required repeating the process three times. It does not work to do them all at once.

Hope they improve this because it's ridiculous.