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Spotify is now available on the Epic Games Store, signaling developer Epic’s ambitions to turn what has so far been strictly a game store into a more general app distribution platform. The Spotify app is free to download from the Epic Games Store, the App Store, Google Play, or as a direct download for your PC or Mac.
The availability of Spotify on the Epic Games Store comes as Epic finds itself in protracted legal battles with Apple and Google over the business models of each company’s respective app store. Epic has sued both companies for removing the mobile version of Fortnite, alleging antitrust violations and arguing that developers can and should be able to process their own payments and avoid giving 30 percent of all revenue in the app to the store owner.
The Epic Games Store remains a relatively new digital distribution platform, launching in December 2018 as a rival to Valve’s Steam. But since the jump, Epic has offered more generous payments to developers, taking just 12 percent of a developer’s revenue for their cut instead of the 30 percent taken in many cases by Valve, as well as Apple and Google.
As of January, the Epic Games Store has over 100 million users, and presumably, that number has grown due in part to the abundant sales and giveaways from Epic. (A GTA V The giveaway in May was so popular that it resulted in a store outage of several hours.)
With the Epic Game Store growing user base, developer-friendly fee structure, and the fact that it now houses one of the world’s most popular apps, Epic seems to be arguing that non-game developers should consider their distribution platform as a viable alternative to other app stores.
