Court Doc Reveals How Much Epic Games Paid Devs for Free Games

Vits39m ago(Edited 35m ago)

Nothing revealed so far is good for Epic.

As you mentioned. Developers now have a basis to analyse how much money they can take from Epic;
However we also learned that Fortnite is basically keeping them afloat. But at the same time it is expected to have gonne down in revenue to almost 50% of it’s original value and Fortnite eSports don’t make any money and actually cost more to run than it is worth. That Unreal Engine to surprise of everbody don’t actually bring much cash back to Epic representing less than 5% of their gross revenue, putting it below EGS. And that Epic in it’s current form is almost a “hostage” of the console makers, in particular Sony where Fortnite make close to 50% of it’s revenue.

It’s really bizarre how much we were wrong about Epic and how right we were at the same time.Before when someone told me that Epic was desperate to make EGS an actual source of money I would just shrug off. As I believed that Unreal Engine was their real cash cow. But now with Fortnite revenue going down and the true of their finances revealed. I can see how desperate they have being with this endeavor.

source: gamezpot.com