It was Fortnite which introduced
Epic Games to the general masses. It was speculated that Fortnite will launch
for android users but it would bypass Google Play Store and that is what
happened, Speculations became reality and fortnite for android which was
exclusively for Samsung users. They had a partnership with Samsung to offer
applications exclusively on Galaxy App Store. After the deal was over they made
users download fortnite from their website
Now Epic Games have intentions to
end the reign of google play by introducing their own store. But going head to
head with google is not an easy job so Epic Games have come up with one big
attraction i.e. developers will get 88% of the revenues which means epic games
will take only 12% of all profits. To differentiate it from google play store
developers only earn 70% and 30% is earned by google. And in case of Epic Games
adding cherry to the top if you are using unreal engine then the 5% royalty
will be taken out of Epic’s 12% profit not your 88%.
Epic Games store is being
targeted toward gamers. It will open up in early 2019 with a set of curated
games that run on PC and Mac. And it will be opening up for android and other
platforms later on in the year. There are certain principles the store will
operate upon and all of them are set on establishing a shared space for both
developers, content creators and gamers uniformly. For You Tubers and Twitch
streamers there would be a referral program in which they can refer players to
buy games on the store and earn money.
To jumpstart their model Epic
games will cover the first 5% of creator’s revenue sharing for first 24 months
of the service. The company has also said that they will reveal more details on
December 6th, at The Game Awards in Los Angeles.
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