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Along with the announcement of Unreal Engine 5, Epic Games presented two important news related to the company’s products: firstly, Unreal Engine has become more accessible for all developers, and secondly, now developers can use Epic’s free multi-platform services. They also announced epic games achievements. Previously, developers who build their games on the Unreal Engine had to pay 5% in favor of Epic, when the profit from their creation exceeded $ 50,000. Now the condition has become softer: Epic will begin to demand 5% only when playing on Unreal will bring $ 1,000,000 or more. If the game is completely free (that is, it does not contain microtransactions or other ways to earn money), then you do not need to pay for Unreal Engine. This is useful for large companies – for example, when creating prototypes for internal use. Besides,
Epic is open to contracts under special conditions – they need to be discussed with the owners of Unreal Engine individually. Epic also launched the public version of Epic Online Services – a set of services for games on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PC or Mac (support for iOS and Android will appear a bit later). Epic Online Services are divided into two main families: Game services – lobby, matchmaking, peer-to-peer connections, player data storage, achievements and statistics, leaderboards, game data analytics. In the future, other features will appear, including voice chat. These services can be used to create an account system based on your decisions, platform decisions or Epic solutions. Epic account services – cross-platform accounts, logins, friends and presence, compatibility with console accounts. According to Epic, its system provides access to 350 million players who have built 2.2 billion friendships on 500 million devices across seven platforms. Epic Online services are free and free – they can be used with any engines, stores and account systems. According to Tim Sweeney, Epic’s goal is to create a unified ecosystem where companies will not fight for players, but will gain access to the entire audience. Like, now the audience is divided into different platforms – gamers on the PlayStation Network are protected from gamers on Xbox Live, Nintendo Switch Online, and so on.