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.
Other posters seem to forget that competition is very important for this kind of thing.
Sure it’s annoying when Epic stops games releasing in other platforms, and especially how the epic launcher and it’s games do not support Linux.
But without competition, steam can continue with an insanely high cut of indie game sales, and that is NOT ok.
I just use Heroic and like 90% of my epic library just works. Admittedly, still won’t spend anything on epic, but then, I like Heroic more than Steam at the moment…
Until I see official Linux support, I’m not putting any eggs in the community Linux launchers. Rug could easily be pulled
Definitely. This is why i don’t spend money on that account. Well, that and not wanting to spend on that store.
Heroic Game Launcher ist awesome. Use it for both, my Epic and GOG libraries.
How is it competition when you only have one place to get it? Isn’t that just a monopoly? Sure it’s temporary, but there’s nothing competitive about “buy here or nowhere.”
I don’t think that’s the same thing as a monopoly. Or at the very least it’s not nearly as bad. The presence of Epic on the market has been great for developers, because they can get good deals at epic AND Valve has been forced to reevaluate their prices.
I can’t wait for lemmy to become a viable competitor to Reddit, I hate seeing those smug bastards at the top of my search results.
I think this is pretty viable, at least as a daily driver. Reddit has a lot more as far as help threads go, but the community here is fantastic.