Twin Mirror(this one hurts), Kena, Bugsnax and Last Campfire are all games I would've bought day 1 on Steam. Probably Werewolf as well.
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yup, same ... but it's ok, i can wait, i'm not in a hurry
This does put a smile on my faceI enjoy the simple things in life. Like trying to imagine Sweeney's face expressions during the PC Gaming Show. Epic: "Here are our exclusives!", audience: "Yeah sure, whatever". P4G on Steam, audience "OMG OMG OMG OMG".
Fortnite Maker Epic Games Nears Funding at $17 Billion Value
As people flock to video games and social networks to fight boredom during the pandemic, investors in the company that owns two of the biggest lockdown hits are betting that those habits will stick.
www.bloomberg.com
Epic is a startup? Wa..?Fortnite Maker Epic Games Nears Funding at $17 Billion Value
As people flock to video games and social networks to fight boredom during the pandemic, investors in the company that owns two of the biggest lockdown hits are betting that those habits will stick.
I don't even know what their thinking behind this is but I am very curious.Fortnite Maker Epic Games Nears Funding at $17 Billion Value
As people flock to video games and social networks to fight boredom during the pandemic, investors in the company that owns two of the biggest lockdown hits are betting that those habits will stick.
The Epic Games Store isn't clear enough about early access games
Finding up to date information on the Epic Store's early access games shouldn't be this hard.
www.pcgamer.com
It's been 18 months since EGS released and Epic is still way behind Steam in basically every aspect. The client is still extremely barebones. As mentioned in PCGamer's article above, Among Trees' store page is basic as fuck. The most notable thing missing are user reviews. It speaks volumes when games such as Satisfactory and Hades sell like hotcakes on Steam upon being free of Epic's exclusivity contract. People are willing to wait it out. Free games are basically the only thing EGS has going for it.
That scrappy 29 year old startup. Epic was started when HW Bush was president, Bloomberg fucked up.
And that pcgamer article feels like it slipped under the editorial staff's radar, and also highlights only one of many a glaring issue, but it's nice to read.
I'm sure Epic would rather influencers and discord be the ones to tell customers a game is early access, so they dont have to put any more work into modifying the store pages. Unreal Engine is hard you guys
And that pcgamer article feels like it slipped under the editorial staff's radar, and also highlights only one of many a glaring issue, but it's nice to read.
I'm sure Epic would rather influencers and discord be the ones to tell customers a game is early access, so they dont have to put any more work into modifying the store pages. Unreal Engine is hard you guys
Among Trees is exclusive to EGS for 15 months.
EDIT: Source Epic Exclusive: Early Access Summer 2020
ooft, 15?
Weird number.
Wonder if we'll be seeing longer exclusivity periods beyond 12 now? =/
Weird number.
Wonder if we'll be seeing longer exclusivity periods beyond 12 now? =/
I played a Captain Sparrow copy of Among Trees and except for the graphic style which is really beautiful imo, the game is severly undercooked. Very little to do, little to no explanation, terrible optimized, janky.
Simply put, they are really staying true to the "pre-alpha" wording. Meaning, the game is not even in alpha yet.
There are far better and more complete first person survival building games out there. The demo I played of Grounded on Steam was way way better than Among Trees.
Simply put, they are really staying true to the "pre-alpha" wording. Meaning, the game is not even in alpha yet.
There are far better and more complete first person survival building games out there. The demo I played of Grounded on Steam was way way better than Among Trees.
That's a new strategy. Get paid for the privilege of shipping half a game, then ship the real version on the platform you are trying to choke off once the deal wears off. It's like outsourcing Early Access and it makes me nauseous
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You can't launch games while in offline modesounds like they finally added real offilne mode ... cant wat to see all them bugs
Then what's the point? So you could just stare at your library of free games that you claimed with no intention of playing?
Good, I'm glad Mixer is failing. It's so gross how they tried to buy success through fake exclusivity. It's gratifying to see that approach fail. Facebook gaming, though? Lol, truly disgusting.
Free games help Epic Games Store hit 61m monthly active users
The Epic Games Store has over 61 million monthly active users on PC, Epic has revealed.
www.eurogamer.net
""active users" aka logs in each week to get free game or active users as actually playing games ?
Also is it across all platforms or just PC:?
Also is it across all platforms or just PC:?
Monthly users it says so I guess logs in once a month at least counts as active? Either way an easily manipulated and rather low bar to set.
Those numbers sound very lukewarm considering Fortnite is a thing
Logging into your account would be activity, so quite likely this. I wonder if it also takes into account people firing up the unreal engine to work with tat, since it too is tied to the launcher for installs and updates
I think the eggs strategy isn't to sell games to Joe bloggs like us. Its to sell user numbers to big firms to then........
I agree with you, but at some point they will need purchasing customers and so far their userbase has skewed hard in the opposite direction.
Seem like pretty good numbers for only having been in the game for such a short amount of time. How those MAUs translate to purchases is of course a different question entirely, as others have said. I'm sure we'll get a fancy infographic soon enough.
They've developed a base of un-purchasing customers which is pretty unique and impressive.
I am also only now noticing the twist of fate Sweeney finds himself in. He bemoaned the PC as a land of pirates if I recall correctly, yet this is exactly the kind of user base he ended up fostering a decade later.
There's a SW3 meme in there somewhere.
If this is the actual trend, they'll change the wording to "user base" or "player base", so as to not imply any purchases will ever be made as a cover-their-ass guarantee.
Customer base implicitly implies purchases.
They consider grabbing a free game a transaction, they gonna loophole as much as they can.
Pro Skater and Mortal Shell were a huge blow to me. But other than those, they've been slowing down lately indeed.
Their biggest catch was RDR2 which was only for a mere month of exclusivity alongside R* launcher.
The problem with anyone talking about active users is if you cast the net wide enough, that figure can be as high as you need it to release some positive figures.
People engaging with a platform at least once a month is not really a good indicator of success, right? Surely a more interesting figure would be to see who is logging in and playing games every week, or even daily? Even I open the EGS client at least once a month to claim a free game that has caught my eye that I may one day play.
People engaging with a platform at least once a month is not really a good indicator of success, right? Surely a more interesting figure would be to see who is logging in and playing games every week, or even daily? Even I open the EGS client at least once a month to claim a free game that has caught my eye that I may one day play.
heh ,
funny how all them articles are now talking about the awesomesauce "The Vault" marketing scheme that boosted it all ... and yet up until now even though its fully leaked (i guess they got press release from timmy) , nobody really called it that , mostly just something like "sumemr sale secret title" giveaway :-D
funny how all them articles are now talking about the awesomesauce "The Vault" marketing scheme that boosted it all ... and yet up until now even though its fully leaked (i guess they got press release from timmy) , nobody really called it that , mostly just something like "sumemr sale secret title" giveaway :-D
I believe we'll soon have an answer to the "how big is their paying customer base" question as we approach the release of some big games that'll have release parity in all stores.
CP2077 might be the biggest one but I don't think will be representative as I imagine it'll have a similar split between GOG and Steam as The Witcher 3 had (excluding some coupons and discount nonsense, I don't think it'll move a significant amount of copies in egg).
There will be Mafia Remaster which might have an interesting split between Steam and egg.
Bloodline 2 might also be representative.
<Insert other games here since I don't remember any more...>
CP2077 might be the biggest one but I don't think will be representative as I imagine it'll have a similar split between GOG and Steam as The Witcher 3 had (excluding some coupons and discount nonsense, I don't think it'll move a significant amount of copies in egg).
There will be Mafia Remaster which might have an interesting split between Steam and egg.
Bloodline 2 might also be representative.
<Insert other games here since I don't remember any more...>
Killing Floor 2 - Epic Online Services Beta
Hello Killing Floor Community, It’s been our goal from the outset that Killing Floor 2 can be played and shared with as many players across the globe. To that end, we’re happy to announce that Killing Floor 2 will be coming soon to the Epic Games Store. To ensure that we don’t divide the PC...
So if I'm reading this right EGS players only have access to non-modded official servers because Epic doesn't support modding yet?Killing Floor 2 - Epic Online Services Beta
Hello Killing Floor Community, It’s been our goal from the outset that Killing Floor 2 can be played and shared with as many players across the globe. To that end, we’re happy to announce that Killing Floor 2 will be coming soon to the Epic Games Store. To ensure that we don’t divide the PC...forums.tripwireinteractive.com
"The only changes are utilizing Vivox for VOIP and EOS to give you access to the pool of EGS players. "
They are already wording it as if they are doing a favor to the Steam players by integrating them to the non-existant community of EGS players.
They are already wording it as if they are doing a favor to the Steam players by integrating them to the non-existant community of EGS players.
The game will clearly be free on Epic in the coming weeks. Probably also means their next game will be Epic only and this is a way to migrate them.
Not probably, Tripwire's next and last release are both EGS exclusive lol (Chivalry 2 and Maneater)
If Red Orchestra 3 is a thing and it's not on Steam at launch, I will be... unsatisfied. Those games barely garner attention as it is.
Though I wouldn't be surprised if RO3 never materializes. Understandably, Tripwire is pursuing money makers and making savvy business deals. And Red Orchestra is probably among the least savvy things you could invest money into, it being so niche and all that.
Though I wouldn't be surprised if RO3 never materializes. Understandably, Tripwire is pursuing money makers and making savvy business deals. And Red Orchestra is probably among the least savvy things you could invest money into, it being so niche and all that.
I mean more the direct followup to KF2, be it KF3 or something similar.
I am 100% positive Nolan has no idea what fortnite is or would approve. The guy would handcrank the projector at the theatre if he could he's that old school!
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