A few hours ago, we informed you about Dead Island 2 and Saints Row 5 coming exclusively on Epic Games Store. And apparently, some new details about Epic’s store have emerged due to the ongoing legal battle between Epic and Apple.
According to some leaked court documents, 7% of users who claimed a free game on Epic Games Store purchased something after that. This shows that a large number of EGS owners are simply using the store for its free games and nothing more.
Additionally, a document shows the Buyout Prices for the developers who participated in the Free EGS games program for the first 9 months. While this document does not include Grand Theft Auto 5, it can give you an idea of what is going on with Epic’s free games program.
From what we can see, Epic spent $11.5 million and gained 5 million accounts.
The game which was claimed by most players in these first 9 months was Batman Arkham. LEGO Batman is second, followed by Subnautica and Metro 2033 Redux.
Epic Games paid $1.5 million for Batman Arkham, $1.4 million for Subnautica, and $1 million for Mutant: Year Zero.
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I think most players just want their games in one place. I have in steam filtered out my games to three major folders uncompleted / Completed / sucks and gives me great overlook what I still have to do. I try to keep uncompleted games under 20. But summer sales is awfully close :O
While i love steam and it’s store – The 30% cut today (or even 15 for the huge publishers) is on the salty. It was kind of fair at the beginning as bandwidth/storage etc costs was huge back then.
With over 600 games on stream (was there from the start and enjoy gaming) and i dislike a fragmented library – I’m still happy to see they get competition as it will end up netting more to the dev’s and thus their room to deliver a good product.
Yeah, they should bring back slavery. No way should I have to pay for the burger flipper when picking up lunch.
Plus there is the wonderful anit-consumer attitude provided by Epic, why wouldn’t you use Epic?
Epic, make piracy great again.
EGS: Helps devs with money and lower cuts,gives free games every 2 weeks or so.
Steam r-tards like Wrinkly: eGS iS aNtI-cOnSuMer StOrE, make piracy great blah blah blah.
I don’t know any developers who are short of money. I say that as a developer, but if they are I would suggest they get a job flipping burgers.
Now if it’s free games you are after, that’s not helping anyone. Get a job, flip burgers if that’s your thing, we are tired of parasites such as yourself.
Nice job moving the goal posts. Where’s the dumb “anti-consumer” talking points?
“I don’t know any developers who are short of money. I say that as a developer”
Why sell games and use stores then?
“Now if it’s free games you are after, that’s not helping anyone. Get a job, flip burgers if that’s your thing, we are tired of parasites such as yourself.”
Such a weird thing to say for a piracy advocate, except you are just a Steam shill…
I think I’m replying to the dumb anti-consumer talking point…
Have you ever known anyone to grow tired of making money?
I don’t see myself as a Steam shill as I simply don’t promote Steam, though my Steam library currently sits at 2,657 games.
I happily torrent epic exclusives, but I don’t have the time to play them, indeed I’ve played less than a 3rd of my Steam library. I’m simply counted as 1 more accessing an Epic exclusive torrent.
>”I think I’m replying to the dumb anti-consumer talking point…”
Oh, the one that exposed your dumb talking point for the trash it is and is still waiting for a proper counterargument?
>”I don’t see myself as a Steam shill as I simply don’t promote Steam”
>”though my Steam library currently sits at 2,657 games.”
Lmao, the joke write itself. Yeah, many people shill Steam by attacking EGS, that’s not mutually exclusive you know?
>”I happily torrent epic exclusives, but I don’t have the time to play them, indeed I’ve played less than a 3rd of my Steam library. I’m simply counted as 1 more accessing an Epic exclusive torrent.”
You don’t need to point out that you are a Steam shill posing as a pirate, everyone knows and you just make pirates look bad. Real pirates like myself don’t give a crap wether the game is on this or that store, if they want to play it, they pirate it. Now go play the rest of your Steam library instead of talking dumb crap on the comments.
Forced exclusivity, refusal to allow customer critique and parasitc reliance on other store fronts for product support. Of course it’s me that’s making dumb points yet having to educate you.
Am I also shilling for Heinz Beanz by pointing out why EGS is bad for consumers? ‘Lmao’
Steam shill? That was something the voices in your head were telling you, something you made up as you have no arguement. As far as piracy goes, that is why I described your behaviour has parasitic.
>Steam shill? That was something the voices in your head were telling you, something you made up as you have no arguement.
Guy with over 2k games on Steam nervously denies being a shill. Maybe spending more time playing the games you already bought instead of crapping yourself on the internet would be better time spent.
>As far as piracy goes, that is why I described your behaviour has parasitic.
I’m the real deal as far as piracy goes, you are just a dumb poser.
I’m not here promoting Steam. Do you understand what a shill is, or are you simply trying to use a word that you have seen the grown ups use? The rest of what you wrote seems to qualify my original impression.
Wouldn’t that mean you should be of pirating, “instead of
crapping yourself on the internet” ?
I think you should give gog galaxy a try then. It integrates with all major stores and shows you all your games in one place.
I’m a gog’r all the way but that “integration with major stores” are 100% garbage. Now you have 1 more layer of launcher to go through. Just do what I did, STOP buying games all over the place. If it ain’t on GoG i ain’t buying it. I hated the fact that GOG brought this Gimmick to it’s launcher, it just show me how much more inefficiency people are willing to put up with & they don’t even know it.
That feature is useful to me since I can see all my digital store games and what stores they’re in.
I used to like GOG but their releases are very slow as are the game updates.
Buy your games on gog and use PlayNite as a launcher.
Hmmm, I gotta look into this PlayNite. Thanks homie.
100%
It’s been a while since I used GOG due to them selling Epic store titles.
Use Playnite.
People aren’t buying because EGS is really slow to implement features to their store. Like this year they just announced that they’re implementing a shopping cart function to the store. They’re putting in money to buy out games but their store might as well be a fancy BBS for how they develop it.
EGS has existed for over 8 years and instead of changing the damn platform to be a “STORE” they just went and spend money on rubbish. Let’s face I, if it wasn’t for Fortnite, they’d be at the bottom complaining like they were before. Someone over there made a deal with the devil to hypnotize people in liking crappy battle royales and the rest is history.
“EGS has existed for over 8 years”
No, it exist for 3 years, founded in December 2018.
No. Sr_Chalice is correct.
EGS existed before, just didn’t sell third party games, which began in Dec 2018
Who cares mr. akshully?
Mehh the store is garbage anyway, all my friends took free games played maybe 1-2 and deleted the whole launcher as did I lol, at this point I dont even care about those so called free games. Goodluck epic games giving free stuff without actually having anything else LOL
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Please do, I put it together over 2 years now and forgot all about it. Then I say this article and all I could say was, “no sh*t, you’ve gots to be kidding me”. This EGS is the worse business model I’ve ever seen. It should be illegal to waste money like this.
I’m also redistributing it when the need arises! 😛
You seem to be really concerned about EGS business decisions, are you a shareholder of them?
Lmao jews steal even crappy memes.
“7% of users who claimed a free game on Epic Games Store purchased something after that.”
Sounds like a ROCK SOLID business plan, lol.
Haha, well said. But, they have no business plan. Buying up properties and giving them away for free IS NOT A BUSINESS PLAN!
I wish more companies would do that.
it is actually, they have to overcome 20 years of steams services. Its somthing that is very hard to do and near impossible so they are brut forcing it basically. They are making a ton of money in other avenues so they can do this, but its not going to be forever. When they feel they have a ledge to be on to compete with then they will grow from there. No idea when that will be decided, but Epic UI has been vastly improved though, granted it has taken them a long long time to do.
So, it does make sense. Its self advertising as every time you play those free games you see the adverts. 7% sales is whatever but thats not thier current goal. They just want to create a large user base first.
Them people turn around and accuse companies of being greedy lmao, amazing self own.
They want to get to a point where they compete with steam at which point they print money.
Epic, make piracy great again.
Wrinkly, pirate poser since december 2018.
Wonder what goes on in the mind of people hating on Epic. Do they actually believe multi-billion dollar Valve is a champion of the people? Do they think less competition equals better value for the consumer? Maybe they think Epic is the only company doing business with China?
Competition is good when you are not paying your way up. 12% platform commission of Epic is indeed a great competitive strategy but paying billions to lure publishers and developers can not be identified as a healthy business model or industry example. There are other issues such as unavailability of forums, review as well as extraction of user data for third party usage.
“12% platform commission of Epic is indeed a great competitive strategy”
No it’s not a competitive strategy, it’s just called not being greedy. How does taking less money over sales help EGS in any way?
“but paying billions to lure publishers and developers can not be identified as a healthy business model or industry example.”
It is what got them under the radar, if it wasn’t for that, they would be way more obscure.
I’ve always had a distaste for Epic dating all the way back into the 90’s due to the Quake/Unreal debate. Epic has only gotten much worse over the last few years, and besides the UE dev package I’d love to see the entire company go broke and disapear.
Who said anything about VALVE? you’re the only one talking about VALVE. This is not a Zero sum game. And to bring up Valve like that, is a very weak and isolated argument. Ain’t no one here talking about VALVE but you. EGS is just terrible all on it’s own. As for the china thing, I can see you have very limited knowledge. You’re just or here making assumptions/insinuations all on your own. Man this is equivalent of talking to yourself.
Ain’t a damn thing about Epic is competition. Because they are losing BADLY, against themselves. Valve sat and did nothing while EGS out competition itself. They lost billions doing the garbage they do. A very terribly run company financially speaking. If it wasn’t for their bags of money (fortnite) they would be a bunch of nobodies. Now they throw their money around like petulant 1st year students over privilege students.
Surely they can’t be all that bad, the higher cut they give and free games must mean something good right?
I had ZERO problems with uPlay store, Origin or GOG, but Epic is a sh*t store that pay for exclusivities, something that EVEN EA never did.
Also, i hate the USA and have no problems with China, still prefer Steam over anything for everything they do for PC gaming and Linux.
About Tencent, the biggest stake is from Naspers 28.9%, a South African company, people still thinks that Tencent is fully chinese, that’s just stupid, but keep the circlejerk, nobody cares: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naspers#Tencent
I’m among the 93% who didn’t (and won’t ever) buy anything from EGS.
All their paid games are free anyway courtesy of CODEX et al.
“All their paid games are free anyway courtesy of CODEX et al.”
Unless you want to play multiplayer, they are not. And it is good to have alternative download methods since piracy are not reliable with it, links go die, torrents stop seeding, etc.
As much as I would prefer seeing Valve reduce their cut a little, I would much rather not see any platform with China’s puppet strings all over it, become a dominant force.
F**k EGS. It’s not just about Sweeney being the lowlife that he is.
Why would a China owned company be worse than what we have now, would love to see a coherent explanation.
China influence is overrated. I’d say the little influence they had is a positive for us, if it wasn’t for them we would be drowned in games 10x times more ghey than they are right now.
You really think China has no control over Valve at all?
Just to let you know, the f*rt sniffer that replied to you is a known CCP bootlicker.
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Oh, wow. I’ve had that tard blocked for a couple years now at least. Along with a few others. It certainly clears the air in the comment sections on here.
I have been pondering the same thing, but it is absolutely hilarious to trigger them. That dude is easily triggered! haha 😛
Lmao the jew rat gossips like a woman to his fellow r-tard mutuals. Yeah dude, i must be easily triggered haha, emoji face…
Did you know that Israel virtually doesn’t have private property? Must be a SoYCiaList state… Lmao conservatard jews.
> Did you know that Israel virtually doesn’t have private property?
[citation needed]
“Approximately 7% of the allocated land in Israel is privately owned. The rest, i.e. 93%, is owned by the State and is known as “Israeli Land”. Israel’s Basic Law on real estate states that Israel’s Land is jointly owned by the State (69%), the Development Authority (12%), and the Jewish National Fund (12%)”
Why do you support soycialists? I tought conservatards regarded private property as sacred. Don’t forget how much you hate public health care.
So, basically, you are telling me that most of the land in the US, and other countries are also known as public land?
Fascinating! So, like every other country out there…
Look what I found, from your source!
“State-owned land includes all land that was subject to the British Mandate prior to the foundation of the State of Israel and was requisitioned by the government subsequent to its establishment. Development Authority-owned land includes land that was confiscated in accordance with the Absentee Land Law and the Land Purchase Law. JNF-owned land consists of land purchased before and after Israel’s inception. The JNF’s by-laws grant it a fiduciary role, stipulating that land it owns shall be held for the benefit of and in trust for the Jewish people. This principal has so far been respected and was solidified in a treaty entered into between the JNF and the State. A bill has recently been submitted to the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) with the interest of legislatively solidifying this principal and is likely to be passed in the near future.
State owned land (”Israeli Land”) is administered by the Israel Land Administration (ILA). Being a government orchestrated entity, the ILA exercises very limited powers, namely: the administration of State-owned land. The ILA is required to remain faithful to the purpose for which it was established and may not deviate from its authority. Furthermore, being a government entity, the ILA is subject to legislatively mandated modes of behavior, such as equality in hiring standards and the proscription of discriminatory practices.”
Look at the jew defending soycialist jews lmao. What other aspects of soycialism you like in Israel? health care and racist laws, just like the national soycialists…
“Fascinating! So, like every other country out there…”
You mean every soycialist country out there. Plz explain more how much you hate sOyCialIsts, oh wait, you don’t…
Ahhh, so all the countries in the world are socialists? Fascinating! Please, tell me more!
“Every country does this, so that means it’s not soycialism”. the kvetching rabbi proclaims without evidence. Not to mention the putrid lack of logic from the inbred r-tard.
Keep defending soycialists and pedos Jester, and plz buy more woke games like CP, soycialists need to stick together in order to trick gentiles with conservatard bullshit.
Good lord, pedo! Don’t you know how the world works? Of course, inbreeding has led you to this level of stup*di*ty.
And you are a soycialist. I refuse to associate myself with soycialists, they are all inbreds and most are pedos, like you.
“Don’t you know how the world works?”
So in all nations the state owns 93% of land? Citation needed/Still soycialist policy that you support.
” I refuse to associate myself with soycialists, they are all inbreds and most are pedos, like you.”
Why do you hate Israel and jewish people? Oh yeah i forgot most jews are schizo due to inbreeding, carry on…
Wow, you are indeed very inbred, and why are you a pedo? Did somebody touch you in your childhood?
“Wow, you are indeed very inbred”
https://en/wikipedia/org/wiki/Medical_genetics_of_Jews
“and why are you a pedo?”
Am i? If i was one you would defend me instead of hating on me.
“Did somebody touch you in your childhood?”
So glad you asked:
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hahahaha so more admission you are inbred and a pedo! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7e53fe7f8ecf0f027a5db4b5218380c3740e1692da7a1e6570d51fd8ba205e45.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ded53d1692e36ceea8f1a3836e4505f0cf50ebd4df1936bfa127e5bb4ce97f57.jpg
Ah yes, you can get more “admissions” by implying i’m jewish, another amazing self own by the queen of projection. Here, have another reminder while you rage impotently: https://en/wikipedia/org/wiki/Medical_genetics_of_Jews
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The real pedophiles are the “MeeToo” victims you defend, but go on, try a new projectionm
Reminder, you sorry lot are also responsible for a drag in the NHS , with your islamic worship and belief that f*king cousins and sisters won’t give you genetic problems, and is allowed by god. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ab870d2a5b5e0b7d0c381555bab4ab03684650e0cbd3b0c4f6bc2fa4fba11890.png
Oh look, now you are raising national socialists as an example of good genetics, when you previously accused Hitler of being a one ball degenerate soycialist. So which one is it? I know hollywood natzesm is a source of jewish projection, looking at your own policies and how your people treat others.
One would know when to stop with the self owns, but you still keep up with the inbreed projection, good reminder that even your patriarch myth started with inbreeding, with Abraham married with his half sister. Stop with the self hate, or at least kys if you want to keep up with it.
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Even the natze Soyjack dresses nice lmao. Can’t say the same of your real life counterpart.
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This one is uglier and have a worse criminal rap sheet than your average neo natzi:
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Funny thing about jew memes they take the fedora guy and photoshop a natze flag, that’s blood libel.
And when jews are too busy to molest their own children (and others), they torture and kill animals as well:
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So why do you pretend to hate natsoc over it’s policies when everyone knows you hate them because of the holohoax?the smart ones know it’s because they stripped jews of power and influence. As for socialism, just look how jews voted in USA, or israel policies.
Epic is set to take the pc gaming world.
You love to see it!
Sweeney playing that long game. All the kids growing up getting free games will gravitate towards Epic eventually. There was nothing like Epic when I was a kid scraping together lawn mowing money for games. I’m wondering how much Sweeney is willing to dump into this long term bet. I don’t trust them, but the younger generation is going to start identifying with them. Or Epic won’t turn enough of a profit, close its doors, and all those freebies with DRM will become useless.
Wow that really isn’t a whole ton of money to spend on free games for people. Like epic said… instead of paying for advertising… they just put the money on free games and honestly it seems like a better value/use of money. I’ve grown to not mind the Epic game store… sure they could skip a single week of free games and use the money to fix the ui. But it’s not so bad.
Anyone who installed Epic is now leashed by China. Enjoy.