Seeing their P&L though never ceases to amaze me, like having $1B+ on cumulative losses with a 12% on third party revenue will never not seem risky. Excluding continuing costs, they would need over $8.3B+ in third party sales to recover their losses. By Tim's admission their profits target 5-7%, so assuming a 6%, doubles that third party sales threshold to $16.6B+ to recoup their cumulative losses.
Of course, the main way they forecast their store becoming profitable is converting games into Epic published titles, hence the shift in the mix between Store and Publisher Revenue in their gross revenue. What is even more funny is their actual costs out pace their store revenue alone, or in other words, they anticipate their costs to be more than what they make from third parties on the store, in their own dang forecast! Look at 2027 for the most extreme example in how third party store revenue shrivels and they can have higher margins since they have a lower revenue share as a publisher. Even if their agreements are generous as a publisher, I cannot help but think it is funny how they are planning on chasing after a lower revenue share model in order to become profitable and how they will likely never be called out because they have seemingly managed to PR the hell out of all of this and folks will silo the publisher and storefront efforts instead of consider them as a whole business model.
I could keep harping on this and point out a lot more on just that one page, but dang.
This seems like a scam:
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Exotic Cars VI Coming Soon - Epic Games Store
Exotic Cars VI is coming soon to the Epic Games Store. Please check for availability and add to your Wishlistwww.epicgames.com
It's coming soon on both Steam and EGS.
This seems like a scam:
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Exotic Cars VI Coming Soon - Epic Games Store
Exotic Cars VI is coming soon to the Epic Games Store. Please check for availability and add to your Wishlistwww.epicgames.com
It's coming soon on both Steam and EGS.
Official confirmation that Epic's moneyhatting failed horribly. The hyper-toxic pro-consumer PC community claims another innocent corporate victim, so sad.
For some reason, this game is a 3 day exclusive to EGS:
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He Will Shoot | Download and Buy Today - Epic Games Store
Download and play He Will Shoot at the Epic Games Store. Check for platform availability and price!www.epicgames.com
They already begun, I blocked the Epic services on my Hosts file, no game I played had any problem yet, but any game in the future who does will be an instant refund.I'm afraid this colossal failure from epic, will push Epic to use EOS like a trojan horse for steam user base.
We users have only to lost from this Epic evil plan to hostile takeover the pc gaming
That was always a smokescreen until they could get self publishing tools online. Expect the store to be inundated with the same low quality trash at Steam whenever they open the floodgates.So what was that about curating the store and not accepting "Crappy games" ?
The Epic Store won't accept 'crappy games,' says Tim SweeneySo what was that about curating the store and not accepting "Crappy games" ?
Well I guess porn games will be next.We'll have a quality standard that doesn't accept crappy games. We'll accept reasonably good quality games, of any scale, whether small indie games to huge triple-A games, and we'll take everything up to, like, an R-rated movie or an M-rated game. A GTA game would be fine to us, but Epic's not going to distribute porn games or bloatware or asset flips, or any sort of thing that's meant to shock players
Official confirmation that Epic's moneyhatting failed horribly. The hyper-toxic pro-consumer PC community claims another innocent corporate victim, so sad.
I'm afraid this colossal failure from epic, will push Epic to use EOS like a trojan horse for steam user base.
80€ port ladies and gentlemen.FF7R PC settings. Seems kinda spartan.
80€ port ladies and gentlemen.
This is laughable.
FF7 Remake just went live. It's still $70 and there's no launch discount.
Edit: Apparently it doesn't have Denuvo, but I haven't found anything to 100% confirm that.
Sadly I think FF7R will still sell well because of the brand name and coupon. I naively hope it and Forspoken do poorly on PC so companies don't try to push $70 on the platform as hard.$10 coupons tho
will make it just regular price tho.......
$10 coupons tho
will make it just regular price tho.......
I honestly wouldn't be so sure about that.Sadly I think FF7R will still sell well because of the brand name and coupon. I naively hope it and Forspoken do poorly on PC so companies don't try to push $70 on the platform as hard.
I hope you're right, but I'm still pessimistic. The top sellers will update in about 12 hours so we'll kind of have a gauge for the first day sales. I still think it'll top the chart, but might fall off after a few days.I honestly wouldn't be so sure about that.
The Final Fantasy brand doesn't have as much pull on PC as on Playstation (because SE is doing their best to keep it that way).
It's an almost shadow drop on EGS, a lot of people won't even know it releases.
Maybe hardcore fans from the US will get it, but everywhere else in the world the price is dogshit even with the coupon.
Naraka: Bladepoint no longer has a release date on EGS:
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NARAKA: BLADEPOINT | Download and Buy Today - Epic Games Store
Download and play NARAKA: BLADEPOINT at the Epic Games Store. Check for platform availability and price!www.epicgames.com
Probably not even coming anytime soon.
EDIT: It looks like Epic hid the release dates for anything that is coming soon and is not pre-purchasable.
Yeah, I suspect that too. Epic probably spent enough money on FF7R to the point where Square Enix wouldn't care about people pirating. And considering the low sales on EGS, why waste money paying for Denuvo?FF7R already "cracked", curious to know if SE even care if people pirates the game since they already got paid.
Sadly I think FF7R will still sell well because of the brand name and coupon. I naively hope it and Forspoken do poorly on PC so companies don't try to push $70 on the platform as hard.
Why go through so much effort if you can simply download it from torrents?I think that some people are buying FF7R, downloading it, getting a refund, and then just keeping the files and playing it offline because there is no DRM lol
Went to check, it's already out there.Why go through so much effort if you can simply download it from torrents?
This seems like a scam:
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Exotic Cars VI Coming Soon - Epic Games Store
Exotic Cars VI is coming soon to the Epic Games Store. Please check for availability and add to your Wishlistwww.epicgames.com
It's coming soon on both Steam and EGS.
Those people are always a vocal minority. Just ignore them - no point in getting upset about it.Epic hands out another bunch of coupons, and the "EGS > Steam" shills are already over the internet. Incredible how some people's opinion can be bought for a lousy ten dollars![]()
acti probably just forgot .... tbh my mine problem with it is that the PC version is online only and crashes when internet derps because of that .... so noway in hell for me even for 14 bucksSo the PC version of Tony Hawk Remastered is lifetime EGS exclusive I guess? I can find it nowhere else, not even damn torrents.
It is 14 bucks now, so I am tempted..
Sir, you know it's always the same, nothing to worry about and as always just happens when there's a coupon involved which is summer and winter.Epic hands out another bunch of coupons, and the "EGS > Steam" shills are already over the internet. Incredible how some people's opinion can be bought for a lousy ten dollars![]()
This. Stop giving it any credit. It's the same as in store best sellers lists for books (i.e. it's basically just curated rather than reflective of anything real)You guys really need to stop caring about the top seller list. It's a bunch of manipulative lies. Epic will put FF7R on top regardless of how it will be doing,
I doubt they can just do that. To release Shenmue III for free, they’d need to negotiate with the publisher again.So I wonder how this Shenmue deal worked for them?
Tim paid for exclusivity way back, and I seriously doubt he made his money back in sales. So did he have to pay the developer again to give the game away, or was he able to just do it, if the sales threshold was never met?