No one should want to duplicate the advance model of the publishing industry.
The deal is great and rarely offered especially in past history. All of the studios have little to no risk, but keep the IP and potentially half the profits after Epic recoups their costs.
No money until the publisher makes profit is a bad deal in all cases, as it basically gives you 0 money on launch and forces you to wait a long time to get money while you are cash strapped. Basically forcing you to have a new publishing deal as soon as another one ends.
Yeah, getting to keep your IP and the "post profit" cut is quite good, my fear is that two of those studios are known to not /barely recoup the cost (Remedy and Ueda), which would make this kind of deal much worse to them and force them to look for new deals asap after finishing the game.
For the record I think it's an amazing deal, but like any deal there's some clauses to it. But I also understand why for example, everyone who might be offered the deal might not take it as well.
Nah, I just don't support companies that act like garbage.
Everyone who doesn't like EGS = Steam fanboy no exceptions
Why wouldn't a studio who needs tens of millions of dollars for their new IP not be interested in this great deal?
I certainly don't think everyone is who objects thinks that away. Just find it odd when some act like games on other stores not an option, and they'd rather NOT play a game they want to. I understand the 'stealing' of exclusives by EPIC previously may have pissed people off.
And to put things even more in perspective: Control was only partially funded by its publisher. Comparatively, this is still a really good deal for Remedy. Especially if publishers usually recoup their costs firsts.
You actually hit what I was getting at on the head. It's a great deal for a new IP, but also an incredibly risky one long-term which basically ask the developer to self-manage themselves as there's the very real possibility the game that gets produced may see zero profit to the developer past production if it doesn't do well enough, and I'm assuming from how EPIC has functioned in the past locks off some potential storefronts the game could've found success on (but of course, it's not a platform exclusive deal).
The better question is, how badly. It's the game with a fastest inclusion on PS Now since the service exists (estimates before that put it around 400k units); it's been discounted frequently and with the first expansion arriving this week, you can buy the base game for barely 20€.
Whoever said that must have been quite the ignorant; Gen Design had Kowloon Nights funding them since early 2019. Publishing was a different matter, but it's hard to see a good reason for any part to repeat the experience when you're not financially tied or, in the case of SIE, have little to earn from the operation.
Isn't that risk with any publishing deal long term if the game doesn't sell well? However you often don't keep the IP nor get as good of a profit split if the publisher paid for all the costs, right?
