Epic Gamesdevelopers behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine 5recently announced its new revenue sharing system for title content creators as part of its game developer conference, revealing that Anyone interested can earn money with their creations virtual.
Depending on the popularity of your personalized content, this can be quite handsome earnings.
After the functions’Creators 2.0‘ from Fortnite shocked fans upon its reveal, it didn’t take long for it to become apparent that the powerful tools of Unreal Engine 5 will be made available to players to do whatever they want with them.
The enormous flexibility of this graphics engine means that creating custom content should be relatively easy, and combined with the popularity of the game, it can be a winning combination.
According to Epic Games’ announcement about their new revenue sharing model for Fortnite, creators can expect potentially high income for the most successfully created in-game content.
According to official blog post ‘Economy of Creators 2.0‘, the studio will now share 40% of the revenue from the game with those who design and publish content in itusing the improved ‘Island Builders 2.0’ feature.
Unsurprisingly, the size of the payout for a creator will depend entirely on the popularity of their creations and how many people use their content. Such a competitive system is bound to jump-start the game’s new economic systems, inviting many people to try their hand at building something new and interesting.
Of course, this isn’t the first time someone has tried to create an “Adult Roblox”, and it will be some time before it becomes clear how easy it will be to use’Economy of Creators 2.0‘, although at the moment, things are looking very good.
User-created content is very popular in Fortnite, and Epic has promised to share the money earned through V-Buck purchases, real money DLC (including mission packs and cosmetics), and Fortnite Club subscriptions, which means that sources of income are something to consider.
