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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by ohgodplsno on Thursday September 10, 2020 @03:55AM (#24429940)
That was a while ago, then, or your games sold horribly for an AAA game. Steam's cut goes down to 20%.

The Microsoft store takes a mere 5%.

The Epic Games Store is at... 12% I believe. There's also no exclusivity from either Steam or EGS. The only condition is not using Steam to promote a game that will release first on EGS.

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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by dijit on Thursday September 10, 2020 @04:18AM (#24430064)
Well, that's interesting. for context I worked for Ubisoft and I left approx. 1month ago (August 12th) to work for Tencent.

Although, while we had good relationships with Microsoft at Ubisoft on a technical basis- I'm not sure about the business arrangement. If Valve is any indication then it was likely incredibly hostile.

Epic does only take 12%, it's an outlier, and is gaining traction because of it.

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