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Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 185 points 1 week ago

Steam really needs something like this. Even the first 100k would be a great start for boosting indie devs.

Instead they do the opposite and reward the big players.

Steam actually reduces their cut as you hit certain milestones. For your first $10M in sales, they take that standard 30%. Hit the $10M mark, and their cut drops to 25% for sales between $10M and $50M. Push past $50M, and Steam only takes 20%.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 33 points 1 week ago

Epic only does it because they know they're the underdog. If that were to one day become untrue they would never do anything like this again.

[-] Velypso@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago

And steam doesn't do it at all.

One approach is objectively better for the little guys than the other.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

Sure, I'm just saying Epic is not any better than Valve in that regard. They're just in a different position.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

One approach is objectively better for the little guys than the other.

I'm a littler guy than any game company, Epic treats me like shit. So I'm not going to use Epic.

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