Recently been that MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries has become a temporary Epic Games Store exclusive. Fans, as expected, were outraged, but the president of Piranha Games Studio Russ Bullock (Russ Bullock) revealed on Reddit the reason for this decision.
The president of Piranha Games wants to dispel misconceptions that the agreement with Epic Games was made out of greed. According to Bullock, he feels that MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries has a better chance of gaining more fans outside of Steam. βI really believe in the increased level of openness that the game will get from moving to the Epic Games Store,β Bullock said.
Due to the number of games on Steam, it is quite difficult for developers to compete. "It's a great platform and we use it, but it's very, very difficult to find a game on it," Bullock said. MechWarrior Online drowned in a huge number of other games that have been released on Steam. According to the president of Piranha Games, not the most popular new items disappear from the main page within a few minutes, because small studios release hundreds of projects a week, and it is very difficult to win the attention of users.
The Epic Games Store is different. MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries will be on the main page for weeks and get noticed. This Steam issue is very well known among developers, and Valve solve it.
Another factor in moving to the Epic Games Store is the more developer-friendly fee for publishing a game on the platform. If MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is released on Steam, then 5% of sales will go to Epic Games for Unreal Engine, and then 30% to Valve. In the Epic Games Store, developers give only 12%. However, Piranha Games did not specify why, in this case, they did not release the game both there and there.
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries will release on PC on December 10, 2019.
Source: 3dnews.ru