The Epic First Run programme allows developers of any size to claim 100% of revenue if they agree to make their game exclusive on the Epic Games Store for six months.
After the six months are up, the game will revert to the standard Epic Games Store revenue split of 88% for the developer and 12% for Epic Games.
Eh if people want to use the epic launcher that’s their choice. I think it’s a worse user experience than steam so even with a bunch of free games idk if that many zoomers would use it exclusively. But maybe you’re right.
I’m much more worried about what happens when Gaben dies and who takes over after him. I can see a future where Epic drops ungodly amounts of money to aquire steam.
Games exclusive to launchers isn’t healthy for the industry, we don’t need more of that right now. I’m a zoomer, granted I am on the older side, and I’m mostly invested in steam since it’s what I ended up accumulating a lot of games on, it’s what was popular at the time I got into PC gaming. I could definitely see that same thing happening for younger people with Epic.
Unless Gabe trains a successor that doesn’t take the company public it’s almost certain gonna go public, get bought out and go through Enshitification.