Revenue increasing by 1.6% is loosing to inflation…
Waiting for them to cut their losses within the next couple years. Sunset the money-losing platform and revoke all the free game licences
GoG is generally the better alternative to steam than epic.
Steam isn’t perfect but it works and has a decent consumer oriented service. GoG is doing great with conservation and drm free options but their launcher isn’t amazing. Pair either with Heroic games launcher or similar for a great experience on almost any OS
What’s Heroic Games Lawnchair?
Their entire plan is giving away AAA games for free to lure people in and then make all that money back later by raising prices or subscription models. Its been quite obvious but people just use their shitty store anyways.
Honestly it doesn’t sound like it. To get that many new users and that little revenue pretty much implies that most of their “new users” are people who come in to get the free game, and won’t put a dime into using it.
If I ran a bookstore and did a promo where I gave a book away to everyone once a month. I went from 1000 customers a month, to 2,700 customers a month. but only sold 10 more books each month. That would pretty strongly demonstrate that people don’t want to buy my books, and almost all of the increased traffic is people just taking free books and leaving.
And when you went to investors you would just tell them you’ve increased your customers by 170% and leave out the part that they aren’t buying anything. You might try to make more money from investors than you’re losing in free books.
I am curious how much of their growth is attributed to cheaters creating infinite accounts to claim free games so if they get banned on one account they just switch to another one.
Dead By Daylight has this problem where the game was free for like a week on Epic games, and if you play with a cheater in the game (pretty common because the anticheat is nonexistent), its almost always from an Epic account with some random character username.
Let’s get those numbers down. We all knew Tim Sweeney was a creep, but he also just announced that he’s a pedophile and a nazi.
I caved and bought Alan Wake 2 and Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memories because I lost hope of them ever coming to Steam. The few exclusives they have explains the minimal growth pretty succinctly. I hope nobody involved is surprised
And that’s why I would never purchase any games there lol
I wouldn’t give them a dime even if it meant playing my favorite series’ sequel. I don’t like the people behind it, I don’t like how they think, I don’t like what they envision for the industry, and I don’t want to contribute in any measure to any of that ever happening.
Borderlands 3 launching as an Epic exclusive saved me from making the mistake of purchasing it. By the time is was available elsewhere reviews were pretty universal on it not being worthwhile.
It’s the best game I’ve played in years, but I’d rather but physical or in any other manner than giving money to epic. Still waiting for any other chance.
Yar me hearty 🏴☠️
I have hundreds of games on epic. I get the free game every time it changes. Never paid for a single thing from them.
Users are the product
Don’t they have Fortnite?
I bought a couple things on epic early on because I thought competition would be good. But epic kind of sucks and has no Linux support, so I stopped.
Not number of users, mind you, that’s the increase in mass of the exact same users.
Besides Epic giving out free games, I also have Luna that has weekly free games to claim. They got plenty of good games to claim in Epic Store. Never claimed a single game. Don’t even have Epic Store account and have no will to do so. Fuck Epic. Their business model is shit. They do not want to compete with Valve, they just want to extort them with attraction of free games and release store exclusives.
Makes sense, I have an account because it’s fun to collect the free games even if I never play them, but I can’t see myself spending money there.
