{"id":623,"date":"2019-12-07T01:42:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T01:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/2019\/12\/07\/epic-games-store-policy-change-expands-in-game-payment-options-for-devs\/"},"modified":"2019-12-07T01:42:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T01:42:50","slug":"epic-games-store-policy-change-expands-in-game-payment-options-for-devs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/2019\/12\/07\/epic-games-store-policy-change-expands-in-game-payment-options-for-devs\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games Store policy change expands in-game payment options for devs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/db_area\/images\/news\/2019\/Dec\/355283\/eps.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Epic has tweaked its Epic Games Store policy to let developers and publishers choose their own purchase and payment services for in-game purchases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Until now, it was only possible to use an Epic-provided payment service, but the company said it wanted to give developers more freedom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We support developers\u2019 right to choose among the best stores, in-app payment processors, online services, and engines, and to mix and match these components as they wish,&#8221; commented Epic Games co-founder and CEO, Tim Sweeney.<\/p>\n<p>Epic also noted that developers who take\u00a0their business elsewhere won\u2019t have to share any revenue on those transactions, allowing them to keep more of what they earn &#8220;so\u00a0they can continue to invest in making bigger, better games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/355283\/Epic_Games_Store_policy_change_expands_ingame_payment_options_for_devs.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Epic has tweaked its Epic Games Store policy to let developers and publishers choose their own purchase and payment services for in-game purchases.\u00a0 Until now, it was only possible to use an Epic-provided payment service, but the company said it wanted to give developers more freedom.\u00a0 &#8220;We support developers\u2019 right to choose among the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/e928cfdc7rs.exactdn.com\/info\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Epic-Games-Store-policy-change-expands-in-game-payment-options-for.jpg?strip=all","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2TFCd-a3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielparente.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}