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Epic is shifting the Unreal asset store from 70/30 revenue split to 88/12
- Thread starter lashman
- Start date
12% is pretty good. Retail used to take 20% so it's absolutely nutty to see Valve, Sony and MS taking 30%. Sure the cost of a digital marketplace is much cheaper than running brick and mortar stores all across the u.s. Cant believe devs and publishers have allowed digital platform holders to get away with this.
wow, great for everyone really. This on top of UE4 just being great in general will move more people to the platform giving epic more sources to get money from had they kept the old model.
Yeah they are definitely trying to lure some Unity asset creators over with this but the backpay is unusually generous (and awesome).
Well hold on, I'm assuming things in the Unreal Store use Unreal Engine and Epic presumably already takes a cut for games that use that, right? So it's possible the lowered store cut + normal UE licensing fees still end up ~30%. Of course I don't know what that engine usage agreement is
Edit: Seems like it's just an asset store? This is pretty good then
Edit: Seems like it's just an asset store? This is pretty good then
Yeah that was my first thought as well. Still, we all win with a move like this.
If Epic ever allows third party games in their platform, it will still be 30%. This is about the asset store and literally nothing else.
he still would. This isnt about a game store.
This seems like an aggressive play to try and get every new developer building their games in UE. Really cool of them to do.
Saw the title and thought this was going to go the other way, so I will now say good job Epic, gotta look after the developers. :)
Yep, this isn't really altruism as a savvy business move to undercut their primary competitor.
That is really interesting, even if its ultimately a competitive move against Unity, giving backpay and the refunds they gave to Paragon players (i just had to look up the name Paragon, i played it at launch too) are pretty unprecedented moves in this industry.
Yeah probably. This is more of a shot at unity and any other engine out there than something that would affect steam/sony/ms/nintendo.
For real. I have no interest in their titles but I've gained so much respect for them recently and I'm very happy to see people enjoy their work so much.
Do you think they're gonna swerve into distributing random UE4-developed games?
Really cool for asset developers, regardless.
edit: wow, retroactive payment to 2014.
Really cool for asset developers, regardless.
edit: wow, retroactive payment to 2014.
Money to blow baby. Good on them, they deserve a runaway success like Fortnite considering how altruistic they are.
I love the whole idea and execution behind these asset stores. I loved them when I first saw them and I still love them today. Its unfortunate there's such a negative view of them as a "asset flip" because they are entirely a good thing.
I really hope this increases asset store input by the community!
I really hope this increases asset store input by the community!
Fortnite money at work. Ditched paragon and UE4 Unreal tournament so let's just give it all away
That is pretty huge but I am sure it is a marketing strategy. Obviously it is still early but I am not hearing as much about Unreal Engine 4 as we did with Unreal Engine 3. For a while there it seemed like an Unreal 3 engine game was releasing every week towards the end of the last gen.