Epic Games Store - 88% split goes to devs

[tbaldree]

@Granath

I do not think you can make that assumption. If the model turns out to be both sustainable and profitable Epic will continue it. This is not engineering, this is business. There is not enough data yet to make that the model is not sustainable. I make no claim that it is or is not sustainable but should it be it will be the customers who ultimately bear those costs. That is the one thing that we can be sure of.

OK, you’re making an assumption about a possible future, but telling me I can’t make assumptions about same.

Feel free to disagree with me, whatever, but please don’t chide me for making informed assumptions when this thread is at least 70% people’s speculations, including your own.
As far as the data available, I think I fairly clearly have more of the available data than probably anyone in this thread, given my years in the business, and I actually have an agreement with the store in question in this circumstance.

In Epic’s case, it is a business run by engineers. And they act like it.

I’m not sure what you mean by ‘the customers who will ultimately bear the costs’. And why you’re sure of it. Games are cheaper per unit of fun than they have ever been in history. More plentiful, of higher quality, and of higher availability. Costs for developers have skyrocketed while games prices have stayed flat or dropped. How are the customers bearing the costs?