The Epic Games Store has seen a strong increase in user numbers over the past six years, reaching an impressive total of 295 million users. However, third-party revenue has not grown at the same pace. In fact, it has barely moved — up only 1.6%, reaching $255 million in 2024. A Massive User Base, but Weak Revenue Growth Between 2019 and 2022, during the pandemic years, Epic experienced solid revenue growth. But after that period, things took a sharp downturn. Revenue dropped back to pre-COVID levels, creating a double problem: while the number of users increased dramatically, earnings actually decreased
  • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I view it as a backup in case I ever get banned or locked out of my account from Steam or Steam has a major outage. At least I have Epic as a backup. It costs me nothing except opening it once every week and adding it to my library.

    I wouldn’t be that upset if anything happened to my Epic account though. I have zero attachment to them.