Considering Epic is on the engine business as well, it does make me wonder if they are considering giving some additional perks on those companies developing with UE4, if they are willing to go exclusively for a while.

You mean in addition to waiving the 5% engine royalty? I thought that was their incentive.

Perhaps access to a set of premade assets for free, say one per game. So you'd get set 1 with your first game, 1+2 for your second game, 1+2+3 for your third, etc... Course rather than a preset block of assets, you'd probably get to choose yourself.

Could also be that 0.5% of the fee could go towards said assets so your upfront cost in making a game is lower...

Who knows though.

I decided to make an account too, right off the bat I can't even install their client, I just get an error message. As of now I could not find any solutions that fixed it. Don't know if it's my computer but this is just a game-downloading client we're talking about, every other one I've tried (Steam, Galaxy, Origin, what little I've used of UPlay, Desura [RIP], that one that Green Man Gaming has I don't use anymore) has worked for me with little-to-no issues. If I can't even install this one well...for my sake I hope the competition stays if I won't even be able to play any of their damn games.

I didn't make an account, but I contacted their support. I asked, whether they plan to mark the DRM-free games they sell as such and whether one can download them without the Launcher.
Positive: support answered very quickly (less than a day)
Negative: they replied to a totally different question, that I didn't even remotely ask.

Yes, really. They sent me some tech support for Fortnite. Telling me about some workaround for crashes and a patch that I might install. They even quoted my original mail in the reply. Yes, that mail where I asked about the Launcher and DRM-free games ... and nothing at all about Fortnite.

I replied to them, telling them that they got something mixed up and that I would appreciate a reply to my actual question and not to somebody else's question. Let's see what they reply this time. :-)

First problems with the Epic Store raise there head.

It seams Epic has a VERY vague user agreement where they basically give themselves the right to sell user information to "sister companies" cough'Tencent'cough without the possibility of the user to decline.

YongYea video on the mater:
https://youtu.be/6WZ1RW8Ongk

Wanna know how they can get away with only taking 12% per sale? That's how.