Re: Epic Game Store tops $1 Billion USD in 2024

Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:08:54 -0700, PW
<iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote:

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:51:05 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

 

So it's with an ambiguous amount of cheer that I read that EGS made
over $1 billion in PC games revenue in 2024.

 

What could they possiblly be selling to make that much money?  They
just have crap games from what I remember.

  As much as I enjoy dissing Epic Game Store (and I really, /really/
enjoy that), they do have a lot of premium games... including some
exclusives you can't find anywhere else (which is its own problem).
Pretty much all the big-name titles you get on Steam are available on
EGS too, both triple-A and smaller independent games. "Kingdom Come
Deliverance 2", "Civilization VII", "Star Wars Outlaws", "Mechwarrior
5", "Frostpunk 2", "Dragon Age: Veilguard", "SpiderMan 2", "Assassins
Creed Whatever"... it's there.
 There's also a lot of cruft (including NFT games) but Steam suffers
from a similar problem. The EGS library isn't quite as big as Steam's,
but it's more than satisfactory for most players.
 It's not that the games are missing from EGS that is the problem. It's
that there's no reason to use EGS, and --thanks to the lackluster
client-- plenty of reasons not to. Despite its handful of exclusives,
there's nothing compelling about EGS, so most people just stick with
Steam.

I guess what I didn't like about Epic is that the games were thrust on me.  Chosen by someone else and thrust upon me.  You have to get this game now!  With Steam it is more laidback.  I have a nice wishlist of about 40 games and there's usually more than one on sale.  I've got to be real selective about the games I get to make sure they are not too graphically advanced for what I have.  For example I recently got Marvel Midnight Suns and it won't run.  Fortunately I got it 90% off and it will be available for my next computer.

But if you are new to gaming (e.g., don't have a huge Steam library)
and all you want is a simple launcher and don't really care about
added features Steam offers (more users, workshop, reviews,
discussions, streaming, etc.) then Epic is a perfectly valid option.
       [You don't know how painful it was for me to say that]
 

Epic and Steam aren't the only options.
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