I doubt a corporation the size of EA doesn't have someone eyeing their game prices and is well aware of the situation on EGS
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I'm not so sure. It doesn't really seem like a big deal to go to EGS once you're also on Steam and it may have been a "why not?" kind of thing. We'll see if non-Star Wars EA games arrive on EGS.
It is a worthy experiment for EA all around.
"Do our customers just prefer Steam all around or was it something specifically with origin?"
Or they could just be gauging EGS on its own merits. Honestly, who knows?
I’m pretty sure almost every third party would prefer that Epic be the dominant player rather than Valve because of the revenue share, so why wouldn’t they put Fallen Order on the EGS.
The best of the best would be for Epic to stop buying exclusives and compete by doing something on their own, like the coupons.
I never argue with strangers on social networks, but ffs I'm resisting the urge to beg him to stop saying "tax" instead of "fee".
that's what he does .... he knows people generally perceive "tax" as a negative .... he does the same for steam
oh, and speaking of android apps and MAJOR security flaws:
Just as critics feared, Fortnite for Android came with an epic security risk
Epic Games has already patched the hole, but it's not a great look.
www.cnet.com
but i guess Tim forgot about that one ...
that's what he does .... he knows people generally perceive "tax" as a negative .... he does the same for steam
oh, and speaking of android apps and MAJOR security flaws:
Just as critics feared, Fortnite for Android came with an epic security risk
Epic Games has already patched the hole, but it's not a great look.
but i guess Tim forgot about that one ...
Yeah blaming the 30% commission for the security of the Play Store is like, wtf? How are they even related?
But anyway I really can't get over the fact that on Android he does have the option of avoiding the 30% (exactly like on PC, or any other open platforms), while he mostly silently suck it up on iOS and console.
Funnily enough, he always complain about the platforms where he has alternatives. Rarely about those where he risks burning bridges.
Don't forget that he wanted to get on the play store without paying the fee. Probably to use Fortnite as a trojan horse to get his "better" store to users there too.
Just because, indeed, these (PC/Android) are the platforms open enough to even allow him to have a store. But the other guys are good, closed like his stuff.
Just because, indeed, these (PC/Android) are the platforms open enough to even allow him to have a store. But the other guys are good, closed like his stuff.
Tim’s twitter asshattery singlehandledly makes me never want to even open the Epic Games website, let alone download the app or redeem games. Dude cannot exercise a modicum of self-restraint.
Even when I'm looking at pretty girls on Instagram epic has to remind me.
Tim likes to watch you fap
I don't have a photoshop handy, but just pretend I'm posting a Ceiling Tim meme here
Ceiling Tim watches your Steam Wishlist
sweet dreams, Council'ors
Dear god, what have you done?
Ceiling sweeney is watching you Wishlist.
edit: Dammit, i missed the wishlist bit in the original post, ooops.
edit: Dammit, i missed the wishlist bit in the original post, ooops.
There are some things we are not supposed to do, some lines we should not cross, gabbo.
Ceiling Tim will haunt our sleep until we are on our deathbed, and ever after
Ceiling Tim will haunt our sleep until we are on our deathbed, and ever after
Much like EGS itself, all bets are off
That's going to give me nightmares, Yikes.Ceiling Tim watches your Steam Wishlist
sweet dreams, Council'ors
Now remove the Fortnite numbers and let's see whats really going on.
aaand none of the articles actually did the math and just copypaste the PR
Looking at the math , dosnt really seem that great
Looking at the math , dosnt really seem that great
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what was the "death of freedom with cheers and clapping" quote again? The other forum thread is an embarrassment of people only caring about tHeiR FrEe GaMEs
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251m across 90 exclusives including Borderlands 3, The Division 2, Outer Worlds, Metro Exodus and RDR2 is abysmal. Especially with those 2 megasales.
Satisfactory and World War Z sold 1.2m on EGS alone and if you include all the AAA games that doesnt leave a lot for the other 80 exclusives they buried on their store.
Satisfactory and World War Z sold 1.2m on EGS alone and if you include all the AAA games that doesnt leave a lot for the other 80 exclusives they buried on their store.
I think free games aren't a bad thing, though I won't be cheering for them. If I see something I want for free, I will take it - I won't just add every game to my library because it costs nothing.
Frankly, if you look at it rationally, the figures aren't great. $2.32 per user that isn't spent on Fortnite is abysmal. And you know the vast majority of that $251m revenue will be from the big hitters like Borderlands 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2, and not from the vast majority of the moneyhatted exclusives.
If they had something real to gloat about they would talk about profits, give us a better breakdown of users and so on. These figures seem suitably fudged.
Frankly, if you look at it rationally, the figures aren't great. $2.32 per user that isn't spent on Fortnite is abysmal. And you know the vast majority of that $251m revenue will be from the big hitters like Borderlands 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2, and not from the vast majority of the moneyhatted exclusives.
If they had something real to gloat about they would talk about profits, give us a better breakdown of users and so on. These figures seem suitably fudged.
After reading the breakdown, EGS propably won't survive one more year, unless Sweeney is adamant in this persue of been the overlord of PC gaming, if you consider all the exclusives they grabbed last year, they definily spend over than U$250m on those, and much more on paying for the rights to giveawey Free Games, Fortnite is whats holding this ship togheter, when it sinks, it will drown everyone on board.
The megasales numbers look bad. 23 million $ in coupons/discounts means around 2.3 million transactions (assuming most people bought couponed games) in their 2 biggest huge ass sales.
Well, that’s revenue but what about profit. I bet they’re deep in red.
They don't care about profit etc at the moment. It's all about getting mindshare, pulling people away from Steam and trying to retain users when they age out of Fortnite.
I have a stupid strong belief that the BR craze will die this year and be replaced by something else. Unless epic copies it, which is highly probable looking at what they did with fortnite, egs will sink.
Well those numbers are not good for Epic.
251m with 90 exclusives including Borderlands 3, The Division 2, Metro, goose game and Control, it's honestly pretty bad.
Too bad the press (including general press like the WaPo) is parroting the 680m number.
Too bad the press (including general press like the WaPo) is parroting the 680m number.
Tizoc No idea. I'd say they are giving free games so people have a library to keep them within the Epic ecosystem until Epic can copy someone else's "Next Big Idea" and hope it catches on like Fortnite did.
So equivalent to about 4,2 million $60 games. Not exactly great but I don't know what their expectations were.
having a library only matters if you have a reason to constantly visit the store. I have probably a dozen libraries across GoG, publisher stores, PSN, and even the old and dead Impulse store.. I only use them if I want to play a game (and remember that I have it on it) on there.
Just a reminder to anyone doing the math, for games that give 5% to streamers, it will be deducted from Epic's cut for the first year. So Epic's cut varies from 7 to 12% instead of lump 12%.
The expectations (that were previously not known to the public) are ALWAYS better than the company thought, because it means they are successful!
They also made special deals with Borderlands and other games where they gave up to 20% cut to streamers...
