You are completely ignoring anything I say in my original comment....
I stated that before launch they where making claims that Epic would be good for gamers since the games would be cheaper since the Publishers would need to pay less to Epic then to Steam so the sale price for the games could be lowered on Epic VS Steam.
Epic themselves are a company so they should have seen coming that the publishers would be pocketing all the money they save on platform fees. Instead that the games would be cheaper then on Steam.
That's why I said, they should have put it in the agreement that a % of what they save VS Steam should be used to lower base price of the games.
Something like you save 15% in platform fees, so 5% of that should be used in lowering the price of the game, the remaining 10% they save they can keep for themselves.
And I understand that it would not translate 1:1 since if they put a lower price, the amount they would save also drops.
But if you say a game would cost on steam $60, 15% saved is $9.
If you would make a chance in price where the publisher would remain getting the 10% from the $60 at the cost of the consumer.
Then if they would sell the game at $57.9 at Epic vs $60 on steam. You would have a publisher : gamer saving split of 10% : 5%.
Both publisher and gamer have a win here. The publisher gets a bigger cut from the sales on Epic vs Steam and the gamers need to pay slightly less for the same game.
"....they where making claims that Epic would be good for gamers since the games would be cheaper..."
Would love to see a source for that, I don't think Epic ever made this statement.
Again, how is it Epic's fault that publisher's chose to price their games this way? If Epic would start regulating these publishers and devs would jump ship incredibly fast.
Have to look if I can find anything for that since it was years ago.
But like I said they could have easily put it in the agreement, you have to agree to an agreement of some kind no matter which platform you put your software on, be it the apple store, steam, Epic or anything else.
They could have easily put a clause in there stating something along the line, since we give you % of discount vs Steam X amount should be used to make the price lower here then on Steam.
And I highly doubt they would jump ship that easily since even with the split I just came up myself they would still be getting a bigger cut then on steam.
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Since the topic is closed I cant comment there: https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/t9pjW/i-would-be-embarrassed-if-i-was-the-epic-games#1uSCRiF
You are completely ignoring anything I say in my original comment....
I stated that before launch they where making claims that Epic would be good for gamers since the games would be cheaper since the Publishers would need to pay less to Epic then to Steam so the sale price for the games could be lowered on Epic VS Steam.
Epic themselves are a company so they should have seen coming that the publishers would be pocketing all the money they save on platform fees. Instead that the games would be cheaper then on Steam.
That's why I said, they should have put it in the agreement that a % of what they save VS Steam should be used to lower base price of the games.
Something like you save 15% in platform fees, so 5% of that should be used in lowering the price of the game, the remaining 10% they save they can keep for themselves.
And I understand that it would not translate 1:1 since if they put a lower price, the amount they would save also drops.
But if you say a game would cost on steam $60, 15% saved is $9.
If you would make a chance in price where the publisher would remain getting the 10% from the $60 at the cost of the consumer.
Then if they would sell the game at $57.9 at Epic vs $60 on steam. You would have a publisher : gamer saving split of 10% : 5%.
Both publisher and gamer have a win here. The publisher gets a bigger cut from the sales on Epic vs Steam and the gamers need to pay slightly less for the same game.
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"....they where making claims that Epic would be good for gamers since the games would be cheaper..."
Would love to see a source for that, I don't think Epic ever made this statement.
Again, how is it Epic's fault that publisher's chose to price their games this way? If Epic would start regulating these publishers and devs would jump ship incredibly fast.
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Have to look if I can find anything for that since it was years ago.
But like I said they could have easily put it in the agreement, you have to agree to an agreement of some kind no matter which platform you put your software on, be it the apple store, steam, Epic or anything else.
They could have easily put a clause in there stating something along the line, since we give you % of discount vs Steam X amount should be used to make the price lower here then on Steam.
And I highly doubt they would jump ship that easily since even with the split I just came up myself they would still be getting a bigger cut then on steam.
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