What’s going on with Epic Games and Outer Worlds?

But 12% of zero is still zero.

I am amused you don't think that Epic has specific numbers on active users, sales data, projections, retention, etc. This is all data they would share with publishers and developers that are considering coming to their store. No company in their right mind is going to just blindly come over because they got a signing bonus. They still need to know that even with that--and the larger share of the sales--that their game is still going to do fairly well.

I am sure you are not dumb enough to think there will be zero sales on EGS, but hopefully you can grasp that there are variables to consider that you do not have access to. Companies like Steam, Epic, and EA do not make their numbers public--but it does not mean that they cannot share them with other organizations. If you really think someone is going to take a $4 million bonus and an extra 12% of the cut to sell 10% of the units they would have sold on Steam, you're out of your mind.

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