Pigswill wrote: ↑Sun Mar 06, 2022 9:51 pm
NoiseWiki wrote: ↑Fri Mar 04, 2022 8:37 am
Bandcamp is an out of the box creator economy. The real issue here is will they pay better than spotify and will those profits scale with the popularity of successful games. IE for stock music music you might pay a standard fee that is the same regardless of how much money the game makes. It'd be great if Epic could scale the royalties based on how popular a game is that your music is used in.
That's a good point about Bandcamp already being a creator economy, though it works independently of something like the Epic Games Store. I'm assuming that there's going to be some kind of integration where someone would need an Epic Games account to access music and features. Apparently the game store does offer some DRM-free games, so maybe that won't be the case overall.
It'sa no doubt a complicated issue .. some games have setting sin them to turn off licensed music so that your streamed audio won't get muted. In a similar vein I was posting these AI animated faces that sing along to snippets of popular music. Well I can only assume that they licensed it with permission for people to post the fuckign shit otherwise what's the point? Which I did and facebook would mute the audio then later some were unmuted.
My hope would be that bandcamp would reamin essentially the same except there'd be the option to license your music for games and then the music would appear in the Unreal store. Now with Bandcamp as is if you decide to remove your content then it's removed but I wonder if a game has licensed your music if for whatever reason youw anted if you'd beable to do that or not... probably not