Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable

Maybe less investment in trying to monopolise the market and more investment in developing their shopping platform so it’s not a smouldering turd.

Sure isn't profitable from me, I haven't bought shit from them.

Oh what a suprise. Maybe... Just maybe...spend some bucks on developing the store to be viable(!) competition to steam. And not just a ghastly shit-shop, where people only exist because of the freebies and partially because of the exclusives (i pirate the exclusives. Fuck exclusives).

Even GOG galaxy is a better client/store and they don't have the same budget.

Epic sucks sweaty, hairy monkeyballs. And i would welcome competition for the apex.

If you haven't tried a linux distro since the release of the SteamDeck, I highly recommend you give gaming on linux a shot.

I get the free games via the site but I dont use windows so I've never even tried to play them. I'd rather support valve who have really went all in on Linux gaming.

I know it is possible to get some of epic ones working via lutris but I'm not that bothered to be honest.

Maybe just uh..

Put your games on steam?

I was up for a Steam competitor. I signed up for the Epic store a few years back. Tried to get the first free game. It wasn't available in my region despite being plastered all over the store in my region. The exact same thing happened the next month. Both of those games were available on Steam in my region at some pretty low prices by then.

Then, Epic started paying for exclusivity, making games not available in my region at all. I had at least deleted their stupid app by then anyway. Fuck Epic entirely.

Epic Games launcher/store is nothing more than Tencent spyware using "free games" as bait and masquerading as a Steam competitor.

On one hand, thanks to the nonstop giveaways, I have way more games on Epic than I do on Steam, so I have a reason to continue using Epic.

On the other hand, Epic's launcher runs like shit, constantly refreshes my library page, slow as hell, glitchy as hell, and makes me feel dirty when I use it.

Steam is just so cozy and is on the whole a much more enjoyable PC gaming experience. I imagine 95% of Epic users are people like me: sign in on Thursdays for the free game and then bounce.

Shocking literally no one, the game store that took a shot at the king with store that (initially) didn't have baseline stuff like reviews and a cart, and tried to get by on giving away product and paying a bunch of money to make stuff exclusive isn't doing so hot financially.

My launcher shows that I have 379 games from Epic. Not DLC, not demos. Full games.

I have never given Epic a single cent and I never will. (That is to say, until they offer me something that makes me want to use their platform). They have no killer features - AT ALL.

EGS losing money has been great for gamers, as they continue to give away free games in an attempt to claw any marketshare. Gamers continue to win as long as this situation lasts. But reading these comments, nobody seems to recognize this.

See it's not all negative news on the internet.

I have no idea why this is newsworthy. Epic's own 2019 documents and testimony in the Apple trial showed that the company did not expect the store to be profitable until 2024 or even 2027. The strategy of heavy investment and operating at a loss to turn a profit later worked for Spotify, Netflix, Microsoft, and many others. Even this week, there are headlines like "Elon Musk Says SpaceX's Starlink Achieves Breakeven Cash Flow".

I have a crazy idea for Epic. Instead of paying a fortune for exclusives, leverage the lower 12% cut and have game publishers sell for less (so that the publisher makes the same amount on Steam and Epic)

I might actually buy a game of the app didn't constantly sign me out.

Seems to me that the most lucrative thing in gaming is still just making really good games.

Sure, there's Steam, but that's a fluke. The exception that proves the rule. Just get back to actual game making.

Would that be because it is still a pale imitator not remotely competitive with steam?

Is it actually not profitable or is this one of those tax writeoff bullshit things where it makes them money in some indirect way

Doesn't need to be profitable, when they're just rolling around in Fortnite money wondering what to spend it on.

Whether its games stores or streaming services, the media seems to constantly miss the obvious, lack of accounted profits means no tax to pay.....

And it'll never be.

Only way epic can compete, even with bloody ubisoft launcher, is to remove competition. Improving their store just isnt part of their business plan, if it was they would do it.

Well yeah, of course it isn't profitable, when it's damn near malicious in how they treat their customers it's not surprising.

I had epic game store before they started blasting free games for unreal tournament. That was a fun alpha and was excited to see what it was going to evolve into. Guess not now lol

Never bought anything there and probably never will, but I'm always there every thursday to get the free games. Heavy gog and steam user, and gamepass subscriber.

I mean, it’s trying to compete against Steam. A platform which has 99% of the games ever released on PC after its inception at the same price and with a great interface.

You’re not winning against that unless you actually sell the same games at a lower price (and I don’t think they can afford to do that)

Do you guys think e.g. YouTube or redshit is profitable despite of what they say and without "profit" that's pumped in by investors or mother companies?
it's just a business,
They get market share by loosing profit then once they are establish enough so most people won't leave if they change things and they change things and start to make profit.
At least that's the plan.

That's really sad. I like Unreal Engine a lot, I hope it doesn't suffer from this.

I wonder if GOG is profitable?

Bye Felecia

The only time I paid for anything on epic was Kingdom Hearts and that's only because I've wanted a PC Version for 20 years

I was upset when Epic acquired Rocket League and drove it into the ground, and then I was pissed when Epic paid for exclusivity on ubisoft games. I bought one game on Epic game stores app two years ago and have since claimed every free game they offer every week whether I care to play it or not. I have also repurchased that game on Steam, so literally the only time I even open epic games is to claim the weekly free game and cost them money.

I wish I had an adblock for the epic launcher.

Good.

I recently played hitman 3 with Lutris on Kubuntu in Epicstore.

Sync was working well. Game was running well.

It is not Steam (which has a native Linux installation), but at least it works.

If the price is the same I go with steam, if epic is much cheaper I go with epic.