Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store

• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Correct, as an added bonus, they get to report X million monthly active users on top of that to their investors (that’s why they make you come back every week for a new game). Likely at relatively little cost to them since they don’t have to pay full price for those games.

  It’s probably still expensive as hell but when you have a competitor as big as Steam in the market, you gotta be able to afford some ammunition, and the Unreal Engine likely still brings in tons of cashflow.

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  • SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually it is (or at least was) surprisingly cheap for them. A while ago internal data leaked and they paid surprisingly little for the giveaways. Either the Devs are desperate or there was some kind of backdoor deal like no or very little fees (for engine and distribution) for the next game they develop or something like that. Look it up, the data is still out there; incredibly cheap.

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Right. They probably wouldn’t have been able to pull this off for as long as they have been if it was just hemorrhaging money.

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