Unreal Engine windfall: Asset devs plan to pay off student loans and more

Epic shook up the payment model for its Unreal Engine (UE) Marketplace yesterday when it revealed it will now pay out 88 percent of every sale to creators. This reduced Epic’s cut from 30 percent to 12 percent, and the company noted that it would still earn a profit from that — oh, and Fortnite is doing OK as well. But Epic didn’t stop with that increase for creators who make art assets and plugins for its game-creation toolkit. It is also planning to go back and pay that 88 percent cut retroactively for all sales over the last four years.

That means that any asset developer who has spent any time on the UE Marketplace should expect a healthy windfall from their next direct deposit from Epic.