Bringing Back the Classics: Epic Games Store Offers Incentives to Developers

2023-10-16 19:53:27
Epic offers incentives to developers to bring their old games to its store. Epic Games announced a new program on Monday to try to motivate developers to bring their old games to the Epic Games Store. Under the new “Now On Epic” program, Epic will give developers 100 percent of “net revenue from user spending” for six months on products offered through the program, according to a blog post. Typically, Epic gives 88 percent of revenue while keeping 12 percent for itself, and the revenue split will return to that level after the six months are up. To be part of the program, developers must commit to releasing at least three games that were released before October 31, 2023, and are “available.” Currently on another third-party PC storefront (or included in a third-party subscription service). Alternatively, if a developer does not have three products that meet these criteria, Epic says they must “bring all live products.” If you want to wait a bit to decide whether to bring your games into the program, that’s okay; Epic says developers can “enroll in the program until December 31, 2024, and all eligible products must be released on the Epic Game Store by June 30, 2025.” The new program could help Epic better compete with Valve’s popular Steam store, which already offers catalogs Huge amount of games. But players looking for those old games have probably already built up large collections on Steam, so they may not have much reason to switch to the Epic store even if an old game appears there because of Now On Epic. Now On Epic adds to a few other programs To try to convince developers to bring their games to its storefront, including a First Run program that also lets developers keep 100 percent of revenue in exchange for exclusivity and its self-publishing tools. Epic has also spent years spending huge sums of money releasing free-to-play games to entice players to use their store more often as well. But Steam, given its age, has player loyalty largely geared towards it. Especially with most PC players owning huge offices on it now, after all these years.
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