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Re:Epic is asking a court to stop Google from yanking Bandca... by alasdair_ on Saturday April 30, 2022 @01:28PM (#31217586)
Exactly. Epic have their own store for games. Would they be fine with each AAA game releasing on the store for “free” but required a credit card to be entered once it was run, with 100% of the money going to the publisher?
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Re:Epic is asking a court to stop Google from yanking Bandca... by mdoms on Saturday April 30, 2022 @02:49PM (#31218227)
Yes, the Epic store enables this exact scenario. Lots of free games on Epic make all of their month through micro transactions billed entirely through their own systems. See Rocket League for one example, but there are many.
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Re:Epic is asking a court to stop Google from yanking Bandca... by SXX on Saturday April 30, 2022 @03:16PM (#31218432)
I really unsure about EGS monetization model, but Psyonix (developer of Rocket League) are subsidiary of Epic.

UPD: At least while ago in 2019 Epic claimed to give a choice of payment processor to use for games on their store: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-12-06-epic-games...

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Re:Epic is asking a court to stop Google from yanking Bandca... by mdoms on Saturday April 30, 2022 @03:37PM (#31218608)
As I said there are lots of free games on Epic which use their own store fronts for transactions.
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