Epic Games has announced that its store has now more than 100 million users. Furthermore, the team will extend its free games program to 2020. Not only that, but Epic Games will sign up more exclusive deals in 2020.
Going into more details, third-party games made $251 million on the Epic Games Store in 2019. According to Tim Sweeney, this figure is 60% higher than its initial forecast. In other words, and despite the harsh criticism, EGS was a big success for Epic Games.
In 2019, Epic Games game away 73 titles as part of its free game program. Sweeney stated that the pace of free game installs is several times higher than they originally expected. As such, Epic will extend this program in 2020 and will offer more free games to PC gamers.
As for new games appearing exclusively on the Epic Games Store, Sweeney had this to say.
“Exclusives have been critical in gaining momentum in the presence of a competitor that began 2019 with more than 90% market share. Securing exclusives for Epic means we can significantly assist developers with product funding and invest in marketing and awareness knowing that these efforts bring in new customers to our store, rather than just sending more business to the incumbent.”
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95% of that is from fortnite
Around 65% actually. $251 from third parties and $680 million in total. John didn’t include the total in the article.
Yep. I read the same thing in another (actually fleshed out) article.
Not sure why it wasn’t included here.
Not a lot really. Considering it’s the only place you can get some games (for now) you’d expect a lot more from 100 million users, which strengthens the argument that most are there for Fortnite and / or the free games.
Excellent information, Fernando Diaz.
What a c*ck sucka
Be respectful to you mother!
Good, always willing to take a free game. EGS give away have been top notch since they started. Hopefully this year sees store improvements, and some AAA free give aways, though I’ll gladly take the indie and AA games they’ve been giving us too.
100 mil users yes sure, but how many of them actually buy games rather then playing fortnite ?
Most of them it seems. They’re making bank. 250 million in sales from third parties.
Really? That means on average the 100 million users are spending $2.50 each …
And? Still adds up to big money.
100 million users includes 90% fortnight player base. They did not separate the two. last I heard Fortnight had 100 million players already, so that means Fortnite has dropped many players. This is not good for them at all. I say AWESOME!!!
Epic Games Store will only get $30.12 Million from that amount.
Great point, forgot about the 88/12 split. I bet he’s seething now.
Why? I don’t care how much money they make.
“Why? I don’t care how much money they make.” “They’re making bank. ” These two statements don’t add up
Are you suggesting one cannot make an observation and not care at the same time?
If you didn’t care, why make the observation?
And. Its your opinion. Not an observation. They aren’t making bank at all. Not in the least.
Minus whatever they spent on poaching games from Steam and GOG.
WAY more than they are making.
Steam had $4 billion in 3rd party sale and only “90 million” player base. You understand that their 100 million player base is 90% Fort night kids right? $250 million is jack Sh!t, in fact it is a probably a loss. They likely spent more than that to pay for exclusives and giving away free games. None of their numbers are good considering. They have only hidden how bad they have done by not separating Fortnite.
“They likely spent more than that to pay for exclusives and giving away free games. ” Easily, they paid 10 million for Control, 2 million for some sh*t indie game. God know what they paid for games like Bordleans 3. They are paying ten of millions for exclusives.
$2.5 from each user on average is a bank LMAO.
And lord gaben is busy counting money in his comfy castle. .
99m R*tard Fortnite players
999999 Subscribers for free games
Fernando Diaz the one and only actual Epic customer
Lies more lies
Great news for all PC gamers!
it would be if epic wasnt horrible and filled with china.
Except he isn’t paid, just a bendover for free.
Wow. Amazing. You got 100M people to make a free account, while giving out free games for a year. Truly a colossal achievement.
Party at Timmy Tencent house, see you there brother ???
Ah Epic…making piracy great again.
Just burn that thing. I only use this luncher for UE4 Editor and thats it.
“Epic Games Store has more than 100 million users,” almost the same as the number of Trump supporters. This is not a coincidence.
LOL Trump supporters despise hipster indie trash and SJW “AAA”
Torrenting will also continue in 2020.
Fun fact: I have 82 games on the Epic Games Store and I have spend a grand total of $0 on them.
Damn.. I missed a lot of games. I have 58.
Same here. Made my account years ago when they were giving Shadow Complex away for free. I’ve been grabbing the free games because why the hell not. I got The Outer Worlds for free with my Ryzen CPU, but I still wouldn’t count that as buying a game from them.
“why the hell not” is not so innocent, you are playing actually his game by being one of his… “users”, so that he can peacock about the million users his… “Store” has in order to attract more and more investors and please the chinese mama on the one hand, and persuade developers on the other hand that the user base is huge so it’s worth it being exclusive there.
The games you all got there aren’t actually free, you all produce money for them even by registering, and by being one of the 100 million users you are actually passively endorsing exclusivity.
I have 600 steam games. I have spent 3000$ over about 8 years. That is an average of $5.95 per game. That includes every single full price brand new games day of release stuff and dlc and year passes and and plenty of purchases like 80$ for Division 2, etc.
82? I only have 73. I must have missed some…
2019 was simply excellent first year for EGS, but if the information that I’m hearing from my sources turns out to be correct I can assure that 2020 is going to be even better.
Nice b8 m8
Voices in your head are not sources m8
2019 was a simply pitiful first year for Fernando Diaz’s relentless shilling, but if the information I’m hearing from my sources turns out to be correct then I can assure you that 2020 is going to be even more pitiful.
Lets do some simple math:
Player spending on third-party games on the Epic Games Store = $251,000,000
Epic Games Store share = 12% of $251,000,000 = $30,120,000 (LOL)
And when you factor that’s from 100 million people, either they’re spending $2.50 each on average or, most of them are spending ZERO money, so the number means nothing and shouldn’t be touted as something great by Epic.
100mil accounts from 12 year olds with no money
Fine for Pewdiepie but not so for Timmy Tencent! ?
Say what you want but Steam never gives us free games not all the games they gave away are complete crap either.
Yes they have I’ve gotten many over the years but then I’m probably a lot older than you.
I’m 27 on here daily and i never seen one game directly from valve that was free
Darn i would have LOVED to get the first sniper elite game for free
Indeed. Then also remember that figure is for revenue, not profit. Deduct taxes and then also factor in the tens of millions of dollars they’ve paid to secure exclusive and timed exclusive deals and then the final figure becomes way, way, lower.
These companies always spin it like it is good by hiding and obfuscating the real numbers by mixing product lines etc.. That is how you know it was NOT good!
Exactly. The PR from Epic Games Store is rivalling that of Ubisoft and Microsoft when it comes to BS.
680 million
429 million go to Fortnite
251 million and 108 million players so every player spend 2,5 $ LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Cool story Timmy.
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Indeed like Epic said this is actually major success with 60% better first year than they were initially expecting in terms of 3rd party revenue. And in 2020 we can expect significant increase in Epic’s 3rd party revenue due to user base that has been rapidly increasing.
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“Major success” ahahahahaha XD you crack me up Botnando
Epic already provides a lot services to developers – an engine, a store, and online services. For them a store is another way to help developers connect with gamers and move the industry forward.
“For them a store is another way to help developers connect with gamers and move the industry forward.”
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The chineee approves.
Fernando Diaz and Bob are crying!
Epic already provides a lot services
what about a forum ???? huh ???
or they dont have the money for it ???
Made myself an account when it launched and now I have 58 games in it, ALL FREE and never played any of them. Two days ago I finally caved and installed Mutant Year Zero….. didn’t like it that much.
I got some “free” games too but I think I’ll get them form uTorrent store when I wanna play.
Great thx epic
Great to see how much interest EGS has garnered in the community.
i bought games on EGS on winter sales instead of steam. i found that the price actually much cheaper than steam.
Well hopefully this means they’ll add some more basic freaking features soon
So basically another repeat of 2019, where I completely give the biggest middle finger to devs, pubs and blacklist them?, fine with me, more money saved and other devs to support. All in all, this just makes me validated in giving the finger to devs who don’t care about their games or me as a customer.
Well hopefully this means they’ll add some more basic freaking features soon