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by colonial 337 days ago
It's extremely telling that nobody (developer or consumer) takes the Epic Games store seriously, in spite of their effort to undercut Steam on this front (0% on the first mil, and 12% after that - to say nothing of the free game promos.)
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jay_kyburz 337 days ago
As far as I'm aware, Epic is still invite only. I don't think just anybody can launch an indie game on Epic.

I could be wrong, I don't keep up with Epic because the store itself has such bad UI design.

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colonial 337 days ago
Epic has offered self-publishing tools for a while. They do involve a human review step, but one look at the piles of NFT shovelware available shows that the bar is in Hell.

(Granted, Steam isn't too picky either, but at least they draw the line at unregulated speculative assets.)

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