No one is getting a big fat cut just like that, not by selling a product. People will be awarded based on some undisclosed engagement criteria Epic will be tweaking over the next 2 years or so. Try #5. Payout Calculations. for the details:
Epic evaluates the performance of your Content in Fortnite by measuring how engaging Users find that Content as a basis for an Engagement Payout Award which distributes a portion of spending from purchases of cosmetic and similar consumer items that are usable across all of Fortnite (the “Engagement Payout Pool”) to creators based on engagement. Your Engagement Payout Award reflects the engagement attributable to your Content as a portion of User engagement across all content in Fortnite, as solely determined by Epic.
https://www.fortnite.com/engagement-program-payout-terms
There’s lots in there - minimums, rollovers, eligibility, what constitutes the pool, T&Cs…
Here’s what I got:
- you make cool stuff and publish it
- people play your stuff
- at the end of the month Epic awards you with £££ generated by V-Bucks because you’ve attracted folks who could potentially generate even more V-Bucks (???)
- the self propelling machine ensures everybody wins
Someone corrects me if I am wrong, please.
Disclaimer: I definitely do understand the whole thing through and through. Merely reading the small print.