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SnowBrigade
11-06-2009, 01:33 PM
Hello, needless to say this is a truly excellent move on Epic's part. These tools can revolutionize game design.

I just want to be clear on the royalty side: 25% is on Net earnings by the developer, correct? Not Gross sales on portals I hope...

Suppose we make a game using UDK and it takes 1m on game portals. We get say.. 600K net after sales tax and host portal royalties. This means we pay 25% of 600K to Epic = 150K USD.

I hope this is correct? The example license fee shipping with the SDK isn't too clear on this. There is a big difference between 25% of the money generated by sales (1m) and the revenue you actually get paid as a dev. (600K)

Many thanks for answering this!

TiGuy
12-02-2012, 07:07 PM
It's all wrote on the sticky thread about royalties
http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/764485-UDK-Royalty-Threshold-Raised-to-US-50-000

The 25% is on the income you receive, so in your case on the 600k



Edit: damn...just realized I was on the last page of the forums...sorry for digging a so old thread...