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I know far enough about how these Epic Store deals articulate. As I said, they're paying copies in advance. What does it mean ? It's the same as if X number of people bought the game. Let's say they paid 100k copies, that'd amount for 5 million dollars. But here's the tricky part: They've bought copies in advance. Which means Deep Silver is getting the money from those sales and YsNet a part of that money. Another additionnal thing to consider: Deep Silver and YsNet aren't getting a single cent from sales Epic already bought. Which means, all copies sold is basically Epic recouping their investment.
But if you want to imagine that Epic injected 20 millions of dollars and gave that to YsNet just for a year of exclusivity, whatever floats your boat.
What about Phoenix Point, which was in a similar situation (except it was on Fig, so that actually even means they had to pass on some of that Epic money to the "investor" backers)? I don't expect the same percentage, because it was a much lower cost game, but they literally received 100% of their development cost back and then another 91% on top of that to have made a profit before ever releasing the game. Epic is clearly injecting huge sums of money to get these deals and basically crossing their fingers that it works long term to bring in people and get them using their store. I'm not saying it is smart, as it could very well backfire on them, but it isn't unprecedented based on these prior deals.
Clearly it worked out for Metro Exodus for Deep Silver to turn around and do it again.
EDIT: Just some interesting information calculated on Resetera by a user with the official data provided by the dev of Phoenix Point via emails to their Fig backers.
Phoenix Point received $500k from investors and $766k from the rest of the backers for a rough total of $1.2 million.
To have reached that 191%, that means that Epic paid roughly $2.5 million.
The link, if you are interested in understanding the math behind it:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ph...te-can-we-calculate-the-epic-moneyhat.112525/
It includes a post from a supposed insider that indicates that it may be even a higher amount: " You are severely underestimating how much they are paying for these deals"
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