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Get ready for a flood of self-published games on the Epic Games Store

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 9 March, 2023 - 16:54

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Epic has just made it much easier for small and individual developers to get their titles on the Epic Games Store. The company's self-publishing tools, which came out of closed beta Thursday , allow any developer to submit their game to Epic's platform for a $100-per-game fee.

Since its late-2018 launch with a small, curated selection of games , the Epic Games Store has slowly expanded to include nearly 2,000 titles . But those games have been selected by Epic for inclusion based on a "high quality standard," as Epic's Tim Sweeney put it to Ars in 2019 , leading to the publication of a number of "how to get published on the Epic Games Store" tutorials.

"We're not going to be that sort of venue [that accepts everything] because we don't think we can help those games to reach users," Sweeney told Ars in 2019. "So it's going to be driven by quality."

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Steam’s “price parity rule” isn’t wreaking havoc on game prices

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 13 May, 2021 - 10:45

Monopoly control is a hot topic in the games industry these days. Lawsuits against Apple , Valve , and Sony all take slightly different tacks in arguing that these companies exercise unfair monopoly control over their platforms' market for downloadable games.

Each suit also argues that this monopoly control leads to higher game prices for consumers. Platform holders charge higher commission fees than they would in a truly competitive environment, the arguments go, and those higher-than-normal publishing costs are passed on to consumers via higher-priced games.

There's something intuitively appealing to the idea of game publishers trying to attract more market share by "passing on the savings" of lower storefront commissions by lowering the asking price for their games. In practice, though, prices for the same title tend to remain consistent across platforms, regardless of the competing platform holders' specific revenue cuts.

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Ce 17 décembre, Cities Skylines est offert gratuitement sur l’Epic Games Store

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 17 December, 2020 - 16:30

Cities Skylines

À partir du 17 décembre et pour quinze jours, l'Epic Games Store offre un nouveau jeu vidéo chaque jour. Les joueurs et les joueuses n'ont alors que quelques heures pour s'en emparer, avant que l'offre n'expire. [Lire la suite]

Voitures, vélos, scooters... : la mobilité de demain se lit sur Vroom ! https://www.numerama.com/vroom/vroom//

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