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Jesus, if this is true then that is a LOT of money. You know what they say, money talks and bullshit walks.
This type of spending for games like Control is not financially stable long term.
Understandable why so may devs are accepting these payments, thats crazy money especially for a game that wasn't expected to sell loads of copies.
I want to add further to this. This means Epic paid an equivalent of 250K copies if Control were sold on Steam. So if we put together that in order to make the same amount of money on the EGS, they would have to have sold 200K copies. That's only roughly 50K difference in copies being sold to make the same amount of money.
Honestly, the difference to be sold to make the same amount of money isn't that much different. What makes it enticing for big publishers to do this is the free fat paycheck they get upfront. The percentage difference isn't as much of a big deal to me in my opinion, least for bigger companies. Smaller indie developers I can understand however. I guarantee you if they did not get a paycheck from them up front they could care less about making the deal with Epic.