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Chazore said:

Just noticed after reading EGS "100% rev" share deal, that they say this on releasing anywhere else at the same time as selling to them:

Can I still release a product on my first-party store or website?
Yes. Products in the Epic First Run program can also be released simultaneously on publishers’ and developers’ own stores or launchers with direct sales, sale of an Epic digital redemption code, or integration with our keyless redemption program. Please note, keyless distribution will require technical work to implement for developer or publisher’s launcher and/or store.

Developers and publishers can also use the Epic Games Store’s keyless redemption program to sell on other stores including Green Man Gaming, Humble Store and several others. After the six-month exclusivity period ends, developers are welcome to release their products on other third-party stores, while continuing to benefit from Epic’s 88%12% revenue share.

You're still basically selling an EGS key, which is still locking you down to Epic, only until the 6 months are up. So really they don't want you selling anywhere that doesn't have to give out an EGS key to give them a customer...

y'know what'd be better?, letting everyone sell anywhere at any time, and just being able to choose based on rev split, y'know, like open competition works?. Let devs make that 100% rev share on EGS, while at the same time, allow them to reach more customers on Steam at the same time. Yeah I know that would be a lose-lose for Epic, but who gives a shit, remember Epic is all about them devs earning their bread, right? (totally not about looking out for their own backs purely to become a permanent market leader or anything). 

The funny thing is 100% of a small userbase is worse than 70% of a large userbase. This is actually a pretty shit deal considering the flack people give you if you say you are EGS exclusive. The only developers that should make their games EGS exclusive should take a money deal and not this nonsense. Personally I'd rather have no one take any deals but if they want to, they better get one where EGS gives them money up front.

Conina said:

ComputerBase has compared the RX 7900 GRE and the RX 6950 XT, both modded o have almost similar settings to show the architecture gains of RDNA3:

https://www.computerbase.de/2023-08/amd-rdna-2-rdna-3-gaming-vergleich/

The raytracing gains are higher than the rasterizing gains: