Fortnite creator Epic gives Unreal asset creators a raise and backpay

The universe has a few constants. You’re going to die, you have to pay taxes, and if you sell something on someone else’s platform, you have to give them a 30 percent cut. Well, publisher Epic Games is disrupting that last fundamental truth with its Unreal Engine Marketplace, as it’s planning to only take a 12 percent cut of any assets sold through its platform. That leaves a massive 88 percent for developers.

You may wonder when this goes into effect, and the answer to that is simple: in about … four years ago. Epic plans to pay its Marketplace creators the 88 percent rate retroactively on all sales since the asset store opened in 2014.