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Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store
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Well, hey, I'm going to assume the army of rabid fanboys doing free PR for Steam helps somewhat.
But it's good to know you support Epic investing more of its money on funding third party games. We may agree after all. I'm not as much of a fan of the implication that it's Fedi's own fault that they're less popular than Reddit and Twitter. I mean, screw network effects, right? Shoulda given users some incentive instead.
Again, Steam doesn't promo its first party exclusives because making first party exclusives costs money and Steam doesn't spend money. They don't have to make exclusives because they have network effects that make every other game be in their store and give them 30% of everything they make. It's free money.
Especially if you all flip the lid every time Epic pays someone to put their game on their store first or exclusively then there is not much to be done to leverage anything. Epic could co-market until they are blue in the face, but if nobody is buying any third party games there then a huge banner in an empty store is nowhere near as value than the SEO madness that is vying for placement on Steam.
You're just making excuses for your monpoly because you've decided it's YOUR monopoly even though some billionaire who isn't you owns it. That's not an emotional outburst, it's an accurate observation. Me being frustrated at how insanely dumb that extremely widespread approach to life has become is emotional, I suppose, but I'd say entirely justified.