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Re:Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M by typenil on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:38PM (#20443214)
I'm legitimately surprised to see so much good will towards Epic and Tim Sweeney here.

I'm happy about their revenue share and was excited when they got started - until it became obvious that their tactics didn't align with their PR.

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Re:Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M by dx87 on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:01PM (#20443430)
Yeah, their revenue share isn't about helping developers, it's about hurting Valve. When Epic pays a publisher for exclusivity, a lot of the time it's actually "sell it anywhere except Steam". Their deals still allow the developers to sell the game on stores that take the same 30% cut that Steam does. Plus there's the issue of a game being developed with Linux support, then Epic pays the publisher for exclusivity and the Linux version goes away because the EGS is Windows only.
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Re:Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M by rexf on Monday July 15, 2019 @08:44PM (#20446605)
EGS supports Windows & Mac. This link is directly from their home page https://launcher-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com/laun...
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