Pierrot Jacquet, Head of Production at UAS mentioned in the press release, “Blender was, for us, an obvious choice considering our big move: it is supported by a strong and engaged community, and is paired up with the vision carried by the Blender Foundation, making it one of the most rapidly evolving DCCs on the market.” The Gold corporate members donate a minimum of EUR 30,000 as long as they remain a member. The Gold corporate members also have a strong voice in approving projects for Blender. Gold corporate members of the Blender development fund can have their prominent logo on dev fund page and have credit as Corporate Gold Member in and in official Blender foundation communication. The exact funding amount has not been disclosed. It has also been announced that Ubisoft will be adopting the open-source animation software Blender as their main digital content creation (DCC) tool. Ubisoft signed a multi-game agreement with Epic, so Steam lovers will have to be willing to branch out if they want to play some of Ubisoft’s upcoming titles.Yesterday, Ubisoft Animation Studio (UAS) announced that they will fund the development of Blender as a corporate Gold member through the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund. The Division 2 won’t be the only Ubisoft game to only sell out of the Epic Games Store. There’s no word on sales for The Division 2 on the Epic Games Store, but Guillemot seems happy to have more copies of a Ubisoft game be sold through the Ubisoft store, which means more money goes directly to Ubisoft instead of the owners of a third party store. According to him, pre-orders for The Division 2 are up from the original The Division and are six times higher on Uplay, Ubisoft’s own online store. So far, his assumption seem to be correct.
While they won’t be getting space and advertising from Steam, the long-time go-to platform for PC gaming, Guillemot feels the pros outweighs the cons. Ubisoft saw an opportunity to promote their own store while supporting a partner that provides better terms.
As it turns out, it’s not entirely about the smaller cut Epic takes (12% as opposed to Steam’s 30%) or any other incentives Epic is offering to claim big-name titles for their new store. What might be more interesting to the average customer is what Guillemot had to say about their decision to have The Division 2 skip Steam for Uplay and the Epic Games Store. Ubisoft reported that their net bookings for the first nine months of the fiscal year are up 13.5%, reaching a total of 1.351 billion euros ($1,494,236,950.) The company credits their success despite fierce 2018/19 competition to strong sales of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Far Cry 5. The two games also contributed to a 58.1% increase Ubisoft’s PC business last year.
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