The fascinating paperwork given to us from the Epic vs Apple trial carry on coming, this time giving us data on simply how a lot Epic Games paid for his or her free video games up till September 2019.
The doc was noticed and tweeted by GameDiscoverCo founder Simon Carless, whos discover lists all of the free video games that got away on the Epic Games Store up till September 2019, and precisely how a lot was paid for them.
The listing exhibits a variety of funds from Epic Games that may little question make a few of these on the listing fairly miffed. Ubisoft, for example, solely acquired $63,000 for For Honor, whereas Funcom obtained $1,000,000 for Mutant Year Zero solely two weeks later.
Topping out as the costliest sport on the listing is Batman Arkham from Warner Bros. which obtained a staggering $1,500,000 to be given away at no cost. Meanwhile Koch Media’s Metro: 2033 Redux was given to Epic, then given away by Epic for completely nothing.
Want to understand how a lot $ the devs of these ‘free’ Epic Games Store video games acquired, & what number of copies had been grabbed? Here’s the primary 9 months to September 2019. ? pic.twitter.com/5hkLb1VEjj
— Simon Carless (@simoncarless) May 3, 2021
This listing doesn’t simply present how a lot Epic paid for every title, which might be fascinating sufficient by itself. But additionally what number of instances every title was redeemed, and in addition what number of new Epic accounts had been created for that free sport.
The most profitable title in that regard was the primary free sport, Subnautica, which drew in a staggering 804,052 new accounts to the platform, while being redeemed a complete of 4,634,826 instances.
This resulted in a price of $1.74 per new consumer, far increased than the most cost effective consumer attractor of World Of Goo, which introduced in 115,215 new customers at solely a price of $0.32 apiece.
