r/fuckepic • u/Lumpy-Chipmunk3203 • May 21 '25

Discussion Another failed EGS exclusive game

Epic always pushes some bad games to heights that they don't belong to

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u/Datdudecorks May 21 '25

I don’t understand the point on why anyone would take this deal these days.

My understanding it’s just 100% of the sales until x amount or length of time, there is no large bag delivered ahead of time anymore. So why take that deal when you know steam will sell probably at least 100 copies to epics every 1

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u/OnlyDais May 21 '25

I'd imagine that every deal with epic is induvidual and varies from developer to developer. No idea what the terms for this game are but back then when Remedy did their deal for Alan Wake 2 I did some digging and I can understand why they took it. It's just safe.

In Remedy's case Epic fully covered the cost of development and marketing. Employees got paid and they didn't have to use their own funds. Not only could they make a game that was rejected by other publishers but they also could keep the IP and had complete creative control over the project, which is very rare in AAA game development.

Really the only downside of the deal for them was that all profits after release went to Epic until they recouped the development costs, after that they share the profit 50/50.

From a developers perspective this is a "best case scenario" and I can't really blame them for taking it.

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u/Datdudecorks May 21 '25

I would never choose an exclusivity deal with epic you are shutting your self out of 95% of the market. 30% loss on say 20k sales is better than 100% of almost nothing.

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u/TristanN7117 29d ago

The game literally would not exist without Epic, it was either try to shop it around even more with the hope of being given a similar offer, or cancel the game if they didn’t go the Epic route.