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How is that at all comparable? First, pretty sure they waive the unreal engine license royalties for sales on the EGS. Second, the timed exclusive offers an e
by boristsr 3y ago
How is that at all comparable?
First, pretty sure they waive the unreal engine license royalties for sales on the EGS.
Second, the timed exclusive offers an even lower sales percentage to epic for being exclusive to EGS for that time period. The developer has a choice to get a larger cut in exchange for not listing elsewhere for a period. That's actually competition in action. Offering better deals to persuade developers and customers to your platform.
They are NOT saying if you don't list on the EGS you can't list on PC at all, which would be a more comparable stance to what Apple do.
- bspammer 3y agoThey bought the rights to a game that I previously purchased on Steam (Rocket League), then promptly dropped Linux and Mac support and moved everything to the Epic Games Store.
- archerx 3y agoI still play rocket league on steam...
- zo1 3y agoHave to confirm, but pretty sure I couldn't install it via steam on a fresh computer. Same account, play on original computer still, etc.
- SquareWheel 3y agoA fresh computer won't matter. You still have the license on Steam. It would only be a problem if trying to play on an unsupported platform, as is the case with Linux.