The company aimed to distinguish itself from industry giant Valve and its Steam platform with the promise of a better cut for developers: Where Steam gives developers 70 percent of net revenue, rising to 75 percent and 80 percent when games hit $10 million and $50 million revenue milestones, Epic's default cut sees developers receive 88 percent of the revenue raised - putting it firmly towards the top of the market, below only indie-focused Itch.io's 90 percent default cut.Ī games store with only a handful of games on it, though, isn't much use, and it's here that Epic's partnership with Ubisoft comes in: Tom Clancy's The Division 2, the follow-up to 2016's Tom Clancy's The Division, will be launching on Epic Games Store. So 70% fraud was an extraordinary situation.Epic Games' attempt to compete with Valve's Steam and carve out its own slice of the digital distribution market has scored a major win with the announcement that Ubisoft's upcoming multiplayer shooter The Division 2 is coming to the Epic Games Store.Įpic Games, best known for the Unreal Engine and chart-topping Fortnite Battle Royale, announced its plan to launch a digital distribution platform open to third-party developers back in December 2018. Fraud rates for other Epic Games store titles are under 2% and Fortnite is under 1%. "Sophisticated hackers were creating Epic accounts, buying Ubisoft games with stolen credit cards, and then selling the linked Uplay accounts faster than we were disabling linked Uplay purchases for fraud. "In the past 48 hours, the rate of fraudulent transactions on Division 2 surpassed 70%, and was approaching 90%," said Tim Sweeney in the recently leaked email thread. These fake accounts kept access to Uplay titles through the Epic Games Store despite being disabled on the platform due to the games remaining playable through the integrated Uplay platform. This Clawback loophole allowed the Epic Games Store hackers to sell disabled Epic accounts that continued to have access to purchased Ubisoft titles through Uplay integration.
This email thread showed that the hackers were utilizing what's being called a "Clawback" loophole to profit off of Uplay integration. RELATED: The Division 2 Players Reporting PS5 Crashing Issues
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