Epic Games Store has more than 100M users
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bemaniac
I've picked up most of the free games and to be honest spent a good £150 so far on games. Waiting for Metro to come to another platform wasn't something I was prepared to do with a 2080ti. Not playing heavy rain and beyond on pc isn't something I'm prepared to miss though. Control is wanted but it's too weird to justify more than £15 for me.
fantaskarsef
schmidtbag
Kinda funny. I must be one of the few people on these forums who doesn't have much of a gripe with Epic, yet, I've never use EGS.
It's worth pointing out that a large amount of accounts are secondary, tertiary, or higher, for the sake of evading bans on games like Fortnite for hacking/cheating.
I'm sure if you were to only look at primary accounts, the statistics would appear very different.
MonstroMart
WalterDasTrevas
I didn't buy anything, but I have 70 good free games! Thank you, EPIC!!! 😀
H83
Backstabak
D3M1G0D
Toadstool
I said this would happen. Despite all the initial resistance, free games and exclusives lured people in. Epic is still working primarily to pull users into their ecosystem. The holdouts seem few, or at least less vocal than they initially were. I don't have anything from EGS yet and had initial concerns, but at this point I don't have any substantial beef with Epic other than not being a fan of exclusives (at the same time I don't know how a new platform could possibly compete without something to stand out, whether that's exclusives or going after old, unavailable games like GoG did).
jbscotchman
But PC gaming is dead.
TheDeeGee
Can't complain about the free games.
Atleast they're doing something with their money that doesn't involve swimming in it... right?... Gabe?
Venix
The exclusives are annoying but i have no beef with epic if they are the cheapest of the 3 gog/steam/epic i will buy from em..... except if the game has good modding community ....then steam workshop alone making it number 1 with out a contest!
slyphnier
EG do much better than EA Origin or ubisoft Uplay
if comparing to steam, over 1billion user (15 million concurrent users https://store.steampowered.com/stats/), then its still far, but for 1year-old-store its doing great enough
user spent, imo for a game-store, its quite low
if we look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_mobile_games
a single mobile-games like PUBG Mobile $1.5 billion March 19, 2018... so is like generating over 500mil per-year
for steam game sales back 2017 is 4billion iirc... today probably around/over 5bil ?
XP-200
Stormyandcold
This is how out of touch we are though. There's a market here that Epic has been able to tap into more effectively than most of the other launchers and that's the younger audience.
For them, Steam means nothing and Origin is just Fifa. Epic has a much stronger grip on a generation who will be growing up with them within the next decade and beyond. Don't under-estimate Epic's foundation work here. They're building a huge loyal following, one that thinks we're old farts.
Locoyote
Six game launchers installed and counting: So far I've got Steam, Uplay, Origin, Epic, Oculus and Rockstar. I've got 97 games on Steam, all purchased gradually over the last few years. I've about got 70 free games on EGS so far from 2019, so they're catching up fast. To be fair, half the free games I'm not interested in playing, but I like collecting them even if I don't install them. 🙂
D3M1G0D
MonstroMart
D3M1G0D
Stormyandcold