And the profit on V-bucks after paying store fees I estimate to be 90%. (Full disclosure I pulled that number out of the air but it’s probably close.)
The cost of producing a "V-buck." amortized over the cost of developing the game is very, very close to Zero.
A digital "V-buck" is an invented currency. It is a line of code? A few lines of code? Pure Profit! (Does anyone remember 150 texts per month for $15? Cost to phone company was essentially Zero.)
The Apple App Store provides actual services (come on Epic! payment processing, auto updating apps, etc etc etc).
Exactly. If I was Apple, I would not mind spending a few billion to make an example out of greedy Epic. I would just ask Epic in court. “ So you want to use our services for essentially free? Do you think we are in communist China?”
Interesting remark, considering that one of the biggest shareholders in Epic is a company going by the name 'Tencent'...
Tencent has very close ties to the Chinese government
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