This is a topic that regularly tears PC gamers apart. In recent years, Epic Games has offered some significant exclusives on its online store. And thanks to the ongoing lawsuit between the developers of Fortnite and Apple, we have a clearer vision of the sums paid to obtain these exclusive titles.
In addition, the document also returns to the staggering sums spent by Epic in order to offer free games to its community every week.
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A very instructive trial
It was expected and it was this Monday, May 3 that the trial between Apple and Epic Games began. If the two companies are playing big on this procedure, they are also obliged to provide documents which have until now been confidential. Thus, very interesting information is now circulating on the Internet. This is, for example, the case of a table that looks back on the sums committed in different areas by the firm headed by Tim Sweeney.
Thus, Simon Carless of the GameDiscoverCo site published the document in question and we will dwell on the important points. First, we learn, for example, that Epic Games paid $1,5 million to Warner Bros. to offer Batman Arkham Collection on its online store. About 6,5 million users took up the game in this context and the promotion resulted in 613 new accounts created. Subnautica, which was the first title offered on the Epic Games Store, cost $912 million for 1,4 accounts created.
During the first nine months of the free games program (i.e. until September 2019), more than 4,9 million users registered on the Epic Games Store and the company spent approximately $11,6 million for offer the 38 games listed.
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An exclusivity that is expensive but that pays off
Let's move on to the rank of games that were only available on the Epic Games Store when they launched on PC. In this category, we find a certain Borderlands 3. To obtain it exclusively, the American firm paid 146 million dollars. In just two weeks, Gearbox's game earned Epic $80 million while attracting 1,56 million players (including around 800 new registrants).
Finally, the site The Verge tells us in passing that Fortnite generated $ 9 billion in revenue over the period 2018-2019. The boss of Epic Games for his part announced that the battle royale had generated $ 5,1 billion in gross revenue in 2020. Finally, since the trial has only just begun, other information of this kind could be published in the coming days.
