Syphon72: I'm still surprised Epic makes so much money.
dnovraD: Oh? Implicitly? Epic isn't making money from the store. That's a burning money pit. The only reason it's been kept up is because some guy accidentally discovered crosspromotional synergy and advertising companies are full of desperate idiots to unload money on.
Supposedly Epic make a fair amount of money due to Fortnite.
But other than that, it is too early days to be making money yet, with their continual giveaways.
They are on a slow but sure road, if they stick to it long enough.
For Epic to succeed, it is all about new gamers, and convincing Steam gamers to use more than one store. That last is the hardest and will take the longest to achieve, but if a gamer has a huge library of games at Epic, it will happen eventually. It is not a big step from playing Epic games, to then buying them at Epic as well. The biggest hurdle is getting gamers to use your service and store.
And one cannot ignore that there must be something behind the unavailability of Unreal games, even though a couple are now sort of available again. My money says Epic are up to something, perhaps something that is even a game changer.
