So, yeah, we're working on them.

So why did you sign an exclusivity deal with Epic?

Was it for the money?

Understandable, especially if the amount was large enough or were there personal reasons?

No slander or hate, but I just wanted to hear the reasoning from them.

Thank you for not slandering or hating.

Yeah, so we answered this question way back when we became exclusive with Epic.

But that's been some time, so I'll just rehash it real quick.

Of course, there was the money aspect.

I'll talk about that last.

I want to say a few things first.

And that is that there were a lot of other things that we sort of supported with that move.

You know, from the support for content creators.

The revenue share, obviously, the standard at the moment is like 30%.

revenue share of your money just goes to the platform.

And it's fair that the platform takes money, you know, so Steam, Steam does 30% thing, but 30% is a lot of money.

And so Epic has been offering 12%.

And that is much, much better.

And so that we wanted to support that movement for potentially better revenue share within the industry as a whole.

As developers, we also think of the well being of developers.

And we think it's important that developers make

money like that they that they get a better share from from what they're doing so so we we think that's pretty good as well now you know we now i say that but now we're going to steam right so are we going back on it i don't know maybe right but but the the other reason really was you guys as well like like we heard you guys like so many people wanted steam and we wanted to do right by a lot of folks we we really did think of you guys and you know this is not me just like spouting some to make you feel important

Like, it really was.

I remember the conversations, you know?

I was there.

Like, I was part of it.

And you guys were important in that decision.

Very important in that decision.

So I just want to, you know, so thanks for that.

And we sort of also think about you guys as well for...

why we went to Steam.

Now, the last thing is obviously money.

Yeah, of course, there's that.

Now, the reason, and, you know, again, this is one of those things that people will say, he's the PR guy, don't believe him.

But,

The fact of the matter is, when it comes to the money, it's scary releasing this.

It was scary releasing this game.

We spent years working on this, and it's a factory game.

You don't know if your factory game is going to recoup three years of money, let alone make any kind of reasonable profit to keep us going for longer, right?

uh we don't we we have we had no guarantee we didn't know we you know we knew the game was good but you just don't know if that's gonna take off uh and we did so i guess in hindsight maybe we didn't need it uh but we don't regret it because we still don't mind being on the epic store it it really is about security and it's it's uh that's why there are a lot of devs who are going there i i think it's not just it's not just money in the pocket like i can assure you that it's not just we want to make more money i can assure you that it's

more likely security you know is our studio gonna be open can we keep paying rent you know that is a huge part of it um remember that we're all humans as well especially when it comes to management uh you know our managers and stuff like that they're really awesome and you got to remember that their priority um is is to ensure all the people in the company

have a job you know they gotta take care of us uh and and you know so they're they're doing that um i i can assure you it's not about it's not about just getting rich i can assure you

But people won't believe that.

I understand that.