The makers of Fortnite are offering up the first free incentive to join their new rival to Steam.
For over a decade now Steam has dominated PC download services, but it has a serious new rival in the form of Epic Games Store.
Epic has been using some of that sweet Fortnite money to set up their own service. And to encourage people to give it a try theyre promising to offer two free games a month from now until the end of next year.
The first one is excellent underwater survival game Subnautica (also recently released on consoles) and while it usually costs £19.49 all you need to do is click here and sign up for a store account to get it for nothing.
Subnautica will only be free until December 27 though, after which Super Meat Boy will take over as the freebie until January 10, and so on.
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Epic also need to attract developers and their key way of doing this is by offering a larger percentage of game sales to the people that make them.
If youre a developer and you sell your game on Epic Game Store youll get 88% of the revenues, compared to just 70% on Steam.
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Surprisingly this has led to something of a price war amongst PC online stores, with Discord now promising to give 90% of revenues to developers via their new store.
Whether thats sustainable or not remains to be seen but Discords store launched in October, but didnt really make the news until they started competing with both Valve and Epic on courting developers.
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