

Now with steam updates, this feature will be released but on Valve’s time.Using Epic Games Launcher to remove the Fortnite cannot completely delete all its related files. From a 2016 Steam Dev Days video, this hosting was mentioned. Regardless of the Epic Store competition Valve has announced this news from a long time. Which makes sense of the extra fee charged by Valve and is a great step to support developers. Exactly how this will work in practice remains to be seen, but the feature is currently in beta among some some number of developers. Most notably, it looks like Valve is working toward letting developers host their games through the company’s own dedicated servers. Valve on the other hand also responded to this and they are also working to support developers and not losing their player base and clients.Ī newly-discovered bit of developer documentation suggests Valve has big plans in mind for third-party developers of multiplayer games. Thinking rationally developers should release their game through Epic Games Store since the profit made from the games is higher than on Steam.

And if you’re using Unreal Engine, Epic will cover the 5% engine royalty for sales on the Epic Games store, out of Epic’s 12%.” “Developers receive 88% of revenue,” the company wrote.

Here’s a summary of revenue breakdown for Epic Store and Steam Should Valve worry about Epic Games Store?Īs of now, I don’t think Valve should have any problem regarding Epic store but it might be a problem in the future. You can now be offline forever but some games (Fortnite for instance) or some DRM solutions might require you to log in (Denuvo). Well, now you can set your status to offline and can enjoy the games without anyone knowing. The devs are also working on in-launcher communication for offline mode to make it more clear.

In order to use/enable the Epic Games Launcher just click “Skip sign-in” if the launcher asks you to log in while you’re offline. How to Use/Enable Epic Games Launcher Offline Mode We're working on improving in-launcher communication for the offline mode to make it more clear. Just click "Skip sign-in" if the launcher asks you to log in while you're offline.
