Support-a-Creator Program

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After Epic Games’s complaints about the Apple App Store fees, they’ve announced they’ll be charging 95%:

> An Epic Games Store example: if your supporters purchase $100 of games, you’ll earn $5 (at the base Epic-funded rate).

This is woefully incorrect.

Epic Games charges 12% instead of the 30% Apple, Google, and Steam charge. If when buying a game, you decide to support a creator (basically by entering a referral code), Epic Games then gives 5% to the creator of your choice. And I believe that comes out of their cut, which means Epic is charging 7% in that case, the developer is getting 88%, and the buyer's favorite Twitch streamer is getting 5%.

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