Epic takes the battle to Steam by giving Everything away for free

Epic is trying Everything to make its store bigger than Steam on PC. Wink. Wink.

[Father__Merrin]

That game everything its actually pretty good. Thanks epic you have my support now go on and become the face of the esports scene can't wait to see epic grow

[Spurg]

They expect us to build a library of games on the EGS. The infrastructure is so barebones it feels like playing a pirated version of Borderlands 3. I hope they let me import my save to steam when it releases on it.

[DaDrunkenJester]

That's their biggest problem. They can pull people in with paid exclusives, but they won't retain any customers because their store is terrible.

[Zeref]

I mean as long as they have exclusive games. People are gonna buy... Didn't borderlands 3 break records?

[DaDrunkenJester]

@Zeref

It was going to break records regardless, it was hardly because of the Epic Store lol

But sure, as long as they keep dropping millions on getting year exclusives they will have a player base. But how long can they keep that up?

[rainslacker]

I start up the EGS, click the library button, I have a library of games. I currently have 6 batman games i got a couple years ago, and while I only dabbled in one of the Lego ones so far, it feels about as pirated as a steam game does...in that it's a digital copy that I start from a launcher.

What it doesn't have is EGS features, which is what is different from steam. I'm sure over time theyll get those features, but epic pushed pretty fast into the market after fortnite's success

[Cobra951]

Everything for free? Best clickbait yet today.

[tochi]

Big benefit of punching a rich idiot.
As long as we do not spend any money on EPIC, everything stays free.

[zakir255]

What Misleading tittle... Epic way to do it.

[eddvdm]

There is no free lunch.

[Shuckylad]

Depends how fast you can run.

[Sophisticated_Chap]

I still haven't bought anything(or downloaded anything) from the Epic store. Just not interested.

[AllMightyFox]

This isn't a sign of marketing genius but rather desperation …..

[rainslacker]

I wouldn't say its genius, but a proven method to get people to use the service. MS did it for windows 10, and failed to convert people to the windows store because they screwed up in multiple places with that part of it. But now, they're practically giving game pass away for free to new members, so buying a game like epic is doing probably costs the same on the backend, but is the only reasonable way to do it for a service which doesn't require money.

Google will probably fail across the board because they arent going to be doing these things, and expect people to use it because they're google

[AllMightyFox]

I use Steam, have been happy with it for years … it isn't broke and doesn't need fixed

you said it yourself, others have tried to replace or take the market from Steam for years (they all failed)

Epic's history is full of bad practices for consumers, never would I support their platform …. NEVER !

[ecchiless]

@allmightyfox

do you play games made with unreal?

[rainslacker]

Steam is too entrenched to compete against without some strong arm tactics.

I never said anything was wrong with Steam. I never had any issues with them beyond some random things which I think are bad practices in general.

Epic has years of bad consumer practices? Such as?

For a long time they were one of the few devs who would consistently find the balance between what was good for the industry, while still speaking out for the consumer. For the most part, they've only ever released games, and I've never seen people say anything overly bad about them until the whole FNBR decided to go up against PUBG, and that seemed more about console fan boys trying to make Xbox or PS look better.

I know Epic isn't perfect with either the consumers, nor even for developers, but to say that they have a history so bad you wouldn't ever use their services makes me wonder what exactly they did to you or people in general that got you so upset.

All they're doing with the EGS is trying to make a store to compete against Steam....mostly because they feel the 30% cuts that these storefronts are taking is rediculous considering what they're doing. It wasn't just Steam, they also went against Google and Apple who have between a 20-30% split for doing nothing but having a customer base. They aren't marketing the games, and publishers or devs have to pay extra for that most of the time.

ecchiless makes a good point though. Don't want to support Epic, don't buy games made with their engine. That's where they make the vast majority of the money they're now using to compete against Steam. You'll be greatly limiting your experiences though, so more power to you fighting the man. In the mean time, suck it up, because Epic is going to keep doing what they're doing to get customers, and you can miss out, and the vast majority don't care if you want to be mad at them.

In the mean time, you still haven't backed up why you think what they're doing is desperation. It's just a marketing tactic like I said, and as you say, no one has been able to compete heavily against Steam because they didn' thave the money. Hence, not desperation, just acknowledgement that doing what others did didn't work, so they had to do something different.

[Shuckylad]

I’ve no more beef with EGS than steam or GOG personally, they’re all a little annoying in the fact they have to be launched first before my game will load. I wish I could just click a game shortcut and my game load up with steam or EGS launch in the background.

[timotim]

Not my Ecosystem of choice so I won't be downloading anything, but if they want to give me Shenmue 3 for free, ill take that in a heartbeat! haha

[Tross]

Epic really wants people to love them, but rather than trying to convince people to stick with them based on the quality of their service (which really ought to be improved), they have resorted to other means such as giving games away for free.

[FRAKISTAN]

Lol @ at the dumb mustard race. Stem has been around for so many years and EPIC is basically just starting. So of course there gonna be behind feature wise, its not to say that they arent implementing them. They are

[il-JumperMT]

still not installing chinese malware

[thexmanone]

Well I have 45 games in my library, and only paid for one. Keep it up Epic, you have my support.

[BrainSyphoned]

Everything you earn is worth more. Maybe Epic should try earning support instead of trying to buy Everything in site.