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Re:Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018 by TAForObvReasons on Thursday December 27, 2018 @02:06PM (#18771655)
Also worth pointing out that PUBG uses unreal, so Epic Games makes money off the royalties AND gets visibility into the PUBG sales data. It's very likely that seeing those numbers made Epic Games shift focus.
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Re:Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018 by jsnell on Thursday December 27, 2018 @02:11PM (#18771705)
The PUBG sales numbers were visible to everyone in realtime: during the heyday of PUBG Steamspy was still accurate, and the game was only being sold on Steam. Any visibility Epic got from the licensing revenue would have been irrelevant.
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