Thanks to research gathered on resetera, we can see that three games hit their minimum guarantee targets, despite the blacked out names. Redditors think they have fought out two games, though: Dauntless and Satisfactory. EDIT: Sorry that Gumbo is Fortnite’s most New Character. The minimum guarantee is a claim made by Epic to devs who agreed to sign a six month exclusive agreement with the Epic Games Store. It guarantees a large amount of money to a single-seller. Once Epic achieved certain sales, he would begin to share the profits. This was an attractive offer for many small indie devs who couldn’t guarantee sales, and who didn’t have to pay back the advance if they didn’t meet the target. Most famously, the Ooblets developers had targeted harassment for their EGS exclusivity and had to explain the deal to angry fans why the deal helped them so much. Epic most likely knew that many of these games would not be able to recoup the costs that they spent on them for exclusivity. When an adversary enters an Airbnb marketplace – an example of what it could not change, Uber defraud with Taxis, Deliveroo providing cheap delivery – it’s not enough to take a majority of the competition, as it can build a loyal user base. Nowadays, the common way to do that is to use money from investors and offer a cheap service that subcuts everyone else, but starts to build a huge market dominance. So prices start to rumble again. Since the EGS competition was against Steam, it might’ve been possible to let Steam users away with free games so that they can’t draw up customers. According to the research complied with on resetera, Epic is now looking to shift from a more traditional publisher business model to a more traditional publisher model, where it will help developers with marketing and other challenges that hinder the creation of video games.
