![]() “This is something that many sellers lose sight of, regardless of engine or platform, when working with marketplaces day to day.” "Epic has proven time and time again that they do what they can to do right by the sellers on the platform,” said Michael Allar, director of Gamemakin LLC. ![]() Epic Games is a company that every year surprises and creates an environment for people where it is pleasant to create and work.” And this moment is comparable and somewhat surpasses it. “It was a great event for the whole community of game developers and all the people who love games. “I remember the moment when Unreal Engine became free,” he said. ![]() Now all involved artists, modelers, animators, programmers and other Unreal developers will be a bit happier, find it easier to live and invest more in their own dream projects and make more high-quality assets and plugins for others,” said Dmitry Smirnov, VEA Games.Ĭaption: See VEA Games Ultimate River Tool in action It's a really wonderful day for all people using the Unreal Engine Marketplace. We reached out to a few Marketplace sellers to brief them on today’s news in advance and to get their feedback. There have been more than 1 million downloads of the free Paragon assets to date, representing $300 billion in total value to the development community.There have been nearly 8 million downloads from the Marketplace since the store’s launch in 2014.There are now over 1,500 creators offering more than 5,000 curated products on the Marketplace. In the first half of 2018, the Unreal Engine Marketplace experienced 30% growth in active sellers.As of July 2018, more than 6.3 million users have chosen Unreal Engine 4, an increase of more than 1 million users since March.The Unreal Engine ecosystem is growing faster than ever, with Epic confirming: “The resulting economies of scale enable us to pass the savings along to the Unreal Engine Marketplace community, while also making a healthy profit for Epic.” “Thanks to both the Marketplace’s growth and the success of Fortnite, Epic now conducts a huge volume of digital commerce,” said Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic. In addition to implementing the policy for future sales, Epic is paying out all Marketplace sellers retroactively, applying the more creator-friendly 88% rate to previous transactions dating back to the store’s 2014 launch. This new 88% (developer) / 12% (store) revenue split applies to all Unreal Engine Marketplace transactions past, present and future. Many successful UE4-powered games, such as ARK: Survival Evolved and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds made use of Marketplace content in their development. The Unreal Engine Marketplace is a store targeting the Unreal Engine community, and enabling game developers to purchase digital content sold by 3D modelers, digital artists, sound designers, programmers and animators, and use those assets in their own projects. Past performance is not indicative of future results.By Dana Cowley Epic Games has announced a sweeping change to the Unreal Engine Marketplace, whereby creators on the store will now receive 88% of their product sales, an increase from the common 70% / 30% split of other digital stores. Nothing contained in this article may be relied upon as a guarantee or assurance as to the future success of any particular company. ![]() ![]() Due to various risks and uncertainties, actual events, results or the actual experience may differ materially from those reflected or contemplated in these statements. No assumptions should be made that investments listed above were or will be profitable. Companies mentioned in this article may be a representative sample of portfolio companies in which Contrary has invested in which the author believes such companies fit the objective criteria stated in commentary, which do not reflect all investments made by Contrary. Information provided reflects Contrary’s views as of a time, whereby such views are subject to change at any point and Contrary shall not be obligated to provide notice of any change. Disclaimer: Nothing presented within this article is intended to constitute investment advice, and under no circumstances should any information provided herein be used or considered as an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy an interest in any investment fund managed by Contrary LLC (“Contrary”). ![]()
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