The Epic Games Store still isn’t profitable, according to Epic Games.
Epic Games Storegeneral manager Steve Allison said so on the stand on Monday, during the opening day of theFortnitemaker’santitrust court battle with Google.
He said the goal for the Epic Games Store is still growth,The Vergereports.
Epiclaunched itsPC gamesmarketplace in December 2018 as a rival toValve’s dominantSteamplatform.
In a bid to take market share, Epic offered game makers a more generous revenue split than Steam, with 88% of sales going to the developer and 12% to Epic.
In comparison, Valve has traditionally taken a 30% share of game sales on Steam, although in 2018 it introduced a revenue share tier system which offers more to developers if their games meet certain sales thresholds.
Epic has also spent heavily to secure major third-party timed exclusive releases, andhas invested millionson its weeklyfree game giveaways.
In August itannounced a new Epic Games Store exclusivity scheme.
The Epic First Run programme allows developers of any size to claim 100% of revenue if they agree to make their game exclusive on the Epic Games Store for six months.
Another Epic Games Store scheme which will see developers getting a 100% revenue share for the first six months by bringing their older titles to the marketplace wasrevealed in October.
The previous month, Epic announced plans tolay off around 830 employees, or 16% of its total workforce.
Itincreased the price of Fortnite V-Bucksand some real money content packs last month, and willstart charging for the use of Unreal Engineoutside of video game development next year.
