Fortnite developer Epic Games just revealed its own digital storefront, favorably comparing its 12 percent cut to Steam’s 30 percent.
Epic Games, the company behind the wildly successful Fortnite, today revealed it’s opening its own digital game storefront. The new store will offer developers an 88 percent share of revenue, in contrast to Valve’s industry-standard 70 percent.
Calling it a “Steam rival” would be more than just a trite comparison, as Epic’s own announcement features a chart directly comparing the price cuts of its store vs Steam‘s. Epic is essentially pulling an “Anything you can do, I can do better” to the same store it scorned. Considering Fortnite is probably the most successful PC game to avoid Valve’s store, Epic would probably know better than anyone what kind of grievances would make developers turn away from it.
As Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney points out, the company isn’t exactly a novice when it comes to running a complex gaming economy:
Sweeney has gone on record to say the 30 percent cut was too much for both Valve and the Google Play Store, which is why he didn’t release his game on either storefront.
