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Epic Games Store is offering developers 100% of revenue for six months of exclusivity (www.videogameschronicle.com)

submitted 1 year ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.world

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The Epic First Run programme allows developers of any size to claim 100% of revenue if they agree to make their game exclusive on the Epic Games Store for six months.

After the six months are up, the game will revert to the standard Epic Games Store revenue split of 88% for the developer and 12% for Epic Games.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I also only use Linux; I don’t need to change my device at all to switch between Steam, Lutris, or Heoric

[–] b3nsn0w@pricefield.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i hope you realize the only reason you can actually game on linux is because valve decided microsoft has to not have a monopoly, because they got spooked by the windows store. i tried gaming on linux in the pre-proton days, it was a hot mess, the advent of proton and dxvk was a massive jump in terms of compatibility. and nowadays valve is ensuring that people do in fact give a shit about proton with the steamdeck, its 1.5-2 million users give a pretty strong reason for devs to keep their games compatible, and anything that runs on a steamdeck runs on linux in general as well.

it doesn't matter whether you run non-steam games through lutris or heroic, you're still running on the translation layers built by valve to keep linux gaming viable

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I am aware, I can still use other stores

I wouldn’t want Valve to have a monopoly on Linux anymore than on Windows

[–] Bulletdust@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Due to advancements pushed by Valve, these days I'm actually surprised when a game doesn't run under Linux.

Even when he worked for Microsoft, Gabe Newell was literally the person that made PC gaming viable.

[–] devbo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

i dont know what lutris or heoric are. i wish i had more time to figure that stuff out. maybe one day.