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posted by chromas on Sunday December 16 2018, @02:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the Microsoft's-store-cries-quietly-in-the-corner dept.

Following an announcement by Fortnite developer Epic Games that it would create its own PC games store, giving 88% of revenue to developers, Discord has announced that it will give 90% of revenue to developers who sell games on its own store:

Discord is looking to make its fledgling game store the most developer-friendly option around. Today, the company announced that it will offer developers a 90 percent share of revenue when its PC game store opens up to all creators starting next year. The store first launched in October with a heavily curated selection of indie games, including Into the Breach and Dead Cells as well as a handful of timed exclusives. Currently, it operates under a fairly standard 70 / 30 revenue split.

"Turns out, it does not cost 30 percent to distribute games in 2018," Discord CEO Jason Citron explained in a blog post. "After doing some research, we discovered that we can build amazing developer tools, run them, and give developers the majority of the revenue share."

Last week, Fortnite developer Epic launched its own PC games store, which similarly offered a more developer-friendly revenue split, taking just a 12 percent cut of all game sales. Both Epic and Discord are looking to make their digital shops more appealing to developers by offering better terms than the current dominant platform Steam.

Also at TechCrunch, Polygon, and Wccftech.


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday December 17 2018, @02:14AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday December 17 2018, @02:14AM (#775262) Journal

    Epic's main product, the global sensation known as Fortnite, is not officially supported on Linux (it is on Android).

    That alone should tell you how much they care about Linux.

    All of Valve's major games as well as an upcoming one, In the Valley of Gods, support Linux. And they've contributed to Linux gaming in other ways.

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