Steam has always been the go-to client for gamers in the market for PC games and also a home for developers to host their indie games, hoping to make some profit on the titles that they’ve worked so hard on. But now, Steam might have some competition as Epic Games, the developer behind Fortnite: Battle Royale, has announced they will soon be launching their own digital distrubution platform called Epic Games Store.
The Epic Games Store will be rolling out sometime in 2019 and will apparently offer a more enticing deal for all developers and content creators alike, with the biggest highlight of the announcement stating that developers will receive 88% of revenue compared to Steam’s 70%.
Why and how Epic Games is able to do this is because of the major success that Fortnite has been seeing. Epic Games has quite a bit of a fortune on their hands to give and boy, do they plan on doing just that.
Surely, game developers should be more than happy to see Epic Games support the industry like this, so we went to Twitter to grab some of the best, heartfelt reactions that we could find. We gathered tweets from not only developers but from fans and just people who are excited for what this new store could mean for the future of indie games.
https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1069986817338834945
https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1069975572984385537
Epic is opening up a Steam competitor and giving a bigger cut to developers who release games there over Steam. If anything this could work to make Steam give more to smaller developers. https://t.co/j3r3RAZ8x0
— Spawn Wave (@SpawnWaveMedia) December 4, 2018
Amazing what creating a game that turns into a cultural phenomenon can do for your business.
Jokes aside, Epic opening a storefront in 2019, making moves friendly to devs & encouraging competition in digital distribution is a big plus for the industry.https://t.co/bjdmOruNZF pic.twitter.com/DslHYwXK9a
— Dom (@DomsPlaying) December 4, 2018
Incredible that valve announces beneficial revenue share only for the most successful games the same week that Epic announces an even BETTER revenue share for literally everyone. It's making Epic look like a saint.
— Davey Wreden (@HelloCakebread) December 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/Futterish/status/1069979750599401472
"In our analysis, stores are marking up their costs 300 percent to 400 percent. We simply aim to give developers a better deal."
Damn, Tim.https://t.co/HJoq9iRENt
— Philip Tibitoski (@PTibz) December 4, 2018
Grateful to be part of a team that passionately supports developers and great games 💜https://t.co/F2CPZrRDTt
— Dana Cowley (@danacowley) December 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/DRad49/status/1070040438499880961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Eprofile%3ADRad49%7Ctwcon%5Etimelinechrome&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwinfinite-net.go-vip.net%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D401979%26action%3Dedit
Speak of the devil: Epic opening games store for all games, no matter what they're created in. 88/12 cut towards *all* developers (no matter their sales), Unreal devs don't pay engine royalties on sales via the Epic Store. https://t.co/sK0ETfTY3o
— Rami Ismail (رامي) (@tha_rami) December 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/TheStarturbo/status/1070040507437469696
Holy Shit!
Pls @EpicGames,@TimSweeneyEpic just give us features what we need… just basic things like patching, statistics, achievements (maybe multiplayer api)… just what we need.. we dont need lot of bullshit what khm khm steam gives. all hail to Timhttps://t.co/V9AQ29tRGA— Amph (@AmphDev) December 4, 2018
I think @EpicGames is doing a fantastic thing with their store! I will 100% be installing it and looking there FIRST before @steam_games for games I want to buy. Good job guys!
— Erika C. (@Chatia12) December 4, 2018
