Epic Games takes aim at Apple and Steam with zero-commission policy for developers

Epic games just announced some changes to the store that makes budded developers happy. The company will not charge any commission for the first $ 1,000,000 from an application. This limit of a piece of program will start receiving 12 percent of the epic standard. Politics comes into force in June.

It sounds like a true boon for smaller devs, especially when you think of it Steam draws 30 percent Sales as a commission. Apple is not a direct opponent here, application store It takes 15 percent in the first million in income. Metric once welcomed once this is up to 30 percent.

Epic also announced something called Something called Something Something Sounded as the developers’ Apple App Store fees. These shops are equipped with an epic game store and offers customers offering offensive purchases of “in-app purchases as a more efficient alternative”. “These stores are now on any platform that allows” to do “this,”, although now contains iOS devices in the EU and the United States.

The company will begin to offer a five percent bonus in epic rewards to attract customers to these websites. This will be applied to all purchases, although the company said there was a limited time proposal.

The epic can make this all the Webshop a job because it just won a case Enemies for a long time. The California Court just ordered Apple Stop the collection fee For purchases made outside the App Store.

The judge also means that Fortnite Returns to Apple devices in the United States next week. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said the company will return the game App Store WorldwideYes, Apple rules the court between all countries. The company will also throw all lawsuits to the topic. He calls this “peace plan”, but Apple has not yet responded.