But then why?

Yeah, so we have a bunch of reasons why we went with the Epic Games Store.

And one of the first reasons is because we have a long working relationship with Epic.

Since the very beginning of Coffee Stain, we've only been using Unreal Engine apart from like a couple mobile games.

So we have a really good relationship there with Epic.

Another thing is we like that it is an option, like another option, which then only focuses on giving sort of quality curated titles.

So that's kind of cool.

Another thing is the revenue share.

Obviously it is better than other places.

And what we would like to be a part of is trying to set that as a new standard for the industry, which would be super cool.

Having said all that, who knows?

Maybe it's no good.

Maybe this just doesn't work out.

It crashes and burns.

We have no idea.

We can't predict the future.

So we're going to be evaluating this as we go.

Hopefully things work out.

So that's all the reasons why...

I'm kidding.

Yeah, we got cash money.

We got payment for the exclusivity deal.

Now, how that's good for us and maybe even good for you is that one, it gives us stability as a studio.

It guarantees that we can keep going.

It guarantees that we will be fine after creating Satisfactory.

It means we may be able to support it for longer.

If we ever move on from Satisfactory, then we can have a better budget to create better games.

Now, one thing about getting a bunch of money is that it's quite easy to promise, yeah, we're going to put it into great creative games in the future and then just like not do that.

The way that we chose to make Satisfactory was not like this corporate boardroom, which is like, hey, I think this is a great niche market to get into.

We should do that.

No, it was literally the developers, the programmers and the designers and one that voted

to make it.

We had a prototyping process where a bunch of games were thought up and us, the developers, chose to make Satisfactory.

I don't know, I think we have a nice history there of putting our resources into cool projects.

So I hope that

You know, us being financially stable with Satisfactory means we really will keep doing that in the future.