Epic’s free games have brought in player numbers that rival Steam
Epic’s storefront hit two big new milestones during the campaign: its daily concurrent user peak hit 13 million, while its monthly active users (or MAU) on PC was more than 61 million. Steam remains comfortably ahead in MAUs, but Epic’s 13 million peak concurrent users between May 14 – June 18 is extremely competitive with Valve’s older, more established platform.
“The results have exceeded our expectations,” said Epic Games Store general manager Steve Allison. “In 2020, we’ve been growing at a historic rate. Epic Games Store partners have a huge audience of players to sell their games to, and receive 88% of the revenue, instead of only 70% as on other platforms.”
The Epic Games Store launched at the end of 2018, and achieving a user level that’s even comparable to Steam’s is a pretty amazing accomplishment. Of course, Epic has helped those numbers along a bit by offering the inducements of free games – and the Vault campaign featured big names like GTA V, the Borderlands Handsome Jack Collection, and Civilization 6.
In all, we reckon Epic has given away something on the order of $2,000 USD in free games since it launched.
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Source: https://www.pcgamesn.com/epic-games-store/vault-giveaway-user-count
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RyanPosted:
Some of the games they dropped for free recently are insane, you would never expect them to be free, I also like their new feature where they are letting you try select new titles for 24 hours for free.
JosePosted:
Anybody said free games ? Because i deff love free games lol till this day i think epic was the one to bring battle royale up and made it popular for other games to follow
ifconfigPosted:
naterocks500 Is that also counting all the people that have the store just for the free games? Or the ones who have it just for fortnite?
I'd say the free games, everyone knows about the Fortnite player ship.
Mario350Posted:
naterocks500 Is that also counting all the people that have the store just for the free games? Or the ones who have it just for fortnite?
just for fortnite most likely
naterocks500Posted:
Is that also counting all the people that have the store just for the free games? Or the ones who have it just for fortnite?
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