Epic Games wants devs to bring their back catalogs to its store

Epic Games announced this week that it’s launching two programs for its PC gaming store. The first is its First Run program, its initiative where developers can boost their revenue on games while they’re exclusive to the Epic Games Store. The other is the Now on Epic program, which incentivizes devs bringing their previously published games to the EGS.

In both programs, Epic offers devs the option to get 100% of the revenue on qualifying products within the first six months of bringing them to the EGS. For First Run, the product is a game launched exclusively on the EGS, and for Now on Epic, it’s an older game released on the EGS for the first time but which is available on another platform. After the six months are up, the games fall under Epic’s typical 88/12 revenue split.