It doesn’t matter where your game sells, it doesn’t matter what your game does, it doesn’t matter whether your game is “free” to download with in-game purchases, whether it has subscription fees, or whether you charge for a disc containing the game, it doesn’t matter whether your game is version 4 or version 5 of the engine, it doesn’t matter what your immigration status is or which country you live in.
If your game generates at least a milliion bucks of revenue, however it’s doing that, then you owe EPIC their licensing fees. They may or may not “find out” about it right away; it’s up to you to be honest and actually forward the money to them once you hit the limit. If you don’t, and they come after you in court, the court will likely find that you were willfully infringing their rights, which is much more expensive than paying EPIC their 5%.
And, yes, there are many ways they can use to find out – platform partners, social media, game store resports, engine telemetry, crash reporter analytics, …
Purely mechanically, when you send them the money, they may require an ITIN (I don’t actually know whether this is still the case for people outside the US,) but as you claim you have one alread, that won’t be a problem.
Also note: The “1 million in sales” counts before Apple takes their pound of flesh, and before the IRS withholding happens, and whatever other costs and discounts you end up having. 1 million gross receipts, attributable to your game in any way, is generally believed to be the limit (at least last I looked – may have changed.)
ITIN (Individual Taxpayer Identification Number - IRS) it is a Tax Paying Number here in the US to pay Taxes like everyone, it’s like a SSN but with “less” benefits.
Thank you so much! Really helped me to get a better idea of how all this works, I was thinking to buy an Unity Pro license instead of Unreal just because I contacted them and they said that they will not request any kind of documents but I think that at the end if you are honest and fair with what belongs to Epic everything is gonna be fine, at the end I’m just trying to make things right, want to make a good looking project and show the world something different.
yes and 5% are a gift honestly if we make a comparison between quality and price, you’d better declare every cent + 10,000$ just to be sure
we are in 2022 every penny have a numerical name surname and date of birth and presumed expiration date for reprinting
3 Yes .Yes.Yes. you’re on epic as an exclusive they give you a bigger slice of cake a bit like everyone else but wen you go above a 1M box epik gives you a bigger piece of cake
you should avoid talking about lack of documents in the first place you download the legislative documentation you read in agony or pay a pecialist lawyer
I don’t think the contract is very generic and doesn’t talk about specific types of games tipes the only thing that matters is that you pay and if you pay it’s OK
Poker Face bild a world…is pity for you that computers have a license plate number on a real-time map world map with your modern phone meta location technically you already got caught and you don’t know it yet
