The Epic digital store celebrates one year between free and exclusive temporary games, a strategy that seems to pay off and will continue to maintain.
Epic Games has taken a moment to look back and see how the road has treated him over the last year, first of his new digital store: Epic Games Store. Fortnite's parents have offered some of their platform's sales figures, in which 108 million users have spent $ 680 million on video games. Much of those numbers are due to its well-known battle royale, but it is not the only thing they support. The company says that 251 of those millions have gone to third party games.
The results have not been precisely bad and the developer has also taken the opportunity to announce that she will continue to offer a free game a week during 2020 (right now, For the King). During the past year Epic Games gave away 73 different games that accumulated a total of 200 million downloads and thanks to which the store has been in headlines and news week yes, week too. The founder and executive director of the company, Tim Sweeney, has never hidden his strategy to stand up to Steam, who goes through offering free titles and a catalog full of exclusive names (even temporarily). In fact, the Epic Games Store's most popular game list includes nine names and all of them have been temporary platform exclusivities: World War Z, Satisfactory, Dauntless, Untitled Goose Game, The Outer Worlds, Borderlands 3 and Metro Exodus.
The war will continue with Steam
The developer of Fortnite and the graphic engine Unreal Engine has brought the console wars of a lifetime to the PC and does not seem to change strategy until Steam does not change its distribution policy. Epic wants Gabe Newell and company to give developers 88% of the money resulting from each sale (the rest being for the store itself and its distribution). A royalty proposal far removed from what Valve's platform offers today, which does not plan to change its mind, thus forging a historic rivalry that will continue to give what to talk about in 2020.
