Epic Games has been seeing plenty of success in the world of video games with its massively popular battle royale title of Fortnite and is looking to expand its reach even more with its own online store where players can purchase games from. Looking to rival the likes of Steam, the Epic Store secured its first major win on Wednesday, January 9th when it announced that Ubisoft will be having the highly anticipated title of The Division 2 available on the new platform instead of Valve owned platform.
The Division 2 Epic Games Store
While The Division 2 will be available on Epic's platform instead Valve's Steam, players will have another option when it comes where they purchase The Division 2 on PC, as the PC version of The Division 2 will still still be available on the Ubisoft Store.
“As long-time fans and partners of Ubisoft, we’re thrilled to bring a range of awesome Ubisoft games to the Epic Games store,” said Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic, in a press release. “We aim to provide the most publisher-friendly store, providing direct access to customers and an 88% revenue split, enabling game creators to further reinvest in building great games.”
This news of The Division 2 being released on the new platform also helped to reveal that the popular Support-A-Creator program that the developer created for Fortnite will carry over to every game on the development studio's store.
Yes, every game on Epic Games store is a part of Support-A-Creator program.
— Sergey Galyonkin (@galyonkin) January 9, 2019
The Support-A-Creator program allows content creators for the likes of Fortnite receive a share of profit from V-Bucks that are used in the battle royale game's cosmetic store when their code is entered for a purchase. Now, content creators enrolled in the Support-A-Creator program will be able to have their code used for any game, including The Division 2.
BTW, if you are registered in Support-A-Creator program, you will be able to make money by streaming or making videos about The Division 2 in the same way as with Fortnite.
— Sergey Galyonkin (@galyonkin) January 9, 2019
With a high profile release of The Division 2 coming and the implementation of the Support-A-Creator code for all titles on its online store, Epic Games is looking to push its success much further than the confines of the already successful Fortnite Battle Royale in 2019.
(cover photo courtesy of Epic Games)
