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Compared to the hundreds of millions the Epic Game Store spent to get exclusives, tens of millions is still very small.
by tmpz22 5y ago
Compared to the hundreds of millions the Epic Game Store spent to get exclusives, tens of millions is still very small.
- jsnell 5y agoThis is tens of millions *per game*. Not in total. Epic did notn pay hundreds of millions for any exclusive. But in addition to that, these are totally different cases and deal structures. Epic was giving minimum revenue guarantees, which they needed to do to offset the lost revenue from other platforms. Stadia was paying for ports, not for exclusivity. The publishers did not lose the opportunity to sell the games on Steam. (And they were paying it outright, not as an advance.) Seriously people. These are eye-popping amounts to pay for a port. Whatever the many product and business failures of Stadia were, an unwillingness to pay developers was not among those failures.