I wonder how many of them never expected this info to go public. Now we know that they were getting less money than in a Humble Bundle.Hopefully every developer out there will take a look at these and ask for way more money from now on
That borderlands spike ...
Yep, they are pretty awful
Seems to be a common theme this year to see Sony making themselves look bad with their greed and bad business decisions
seems like there is some bundling going on by the look at the Borderlands 3 deal
yeah that Blands spike is funny , especially compared to like rest of th store until then :-D
I guess that graph shows that the comment was about all sales, including Steam. If this graph is correct, Metro Exodus sold much more on Steam than on EGS.
I bet you are pretty happy with the data that we got on EGS! That daily revenue chart showed that customers largely ignored EGS, even with all the sales and moneyhats.
It's still on the planningSadly the leaked document is removed, but it seems someone leaked a document with Epic's strategy for EGS. It said that Epic was planning to ramp up the money hatting to more than 300 games/year in 2022-2024!
I'm not sure this is still on the planning since lots of exclusives are underperforming. But this shows once again that Epic has no intentions to offer healthy competition with EGS. I'll be extremely happy to see it fail.
To be fair, they must have known this was going to happen?
True. I don't know how they attribute new accounts to each free game given away during the same week.
I haven't been analyzing all this data (that's Mor 's job
) but yeah, every leaked graph or number I see indicates that EGS isn't doing well at all. Most money hatted games seem to perform significantly less than estimated (which determines Epic's minimum sales guarantee). But most important is that the growth in revenue was almost zero last year. This indicates that Epic's current strategy isn't working very well.
this one?Sadly the leaked document is removed, but it seems someone leaked a document with Epic's strategy for EGS. It said that Epic was planning to ramp up the money hatting to more than 300 games/year in 2022-2024!
I can't find it but Sweeny tweeted once (I'm paraphrasing) that the 12% meant that either someone matched them and therefore they lose their advantage or nobody matched them and they would "win". So that "prediction" is in line with their thinking.
Without exclusives and free games as the main force attracting and retaining users, with time a chunk of those users will stop using EGS in favour of other (better) stores
I haven't seen this one yet. But it doesn't show more than 300 games a year. The document that person on Era was talking about dated from 2019.
Well, this one is the important one as so far we are heading to the not really big sceneario as numbers are not matching their initial thoughts.
I hope you're right. In the end I don't care if EGS succeeds or not. My only concern is that moneyhatting 3rd party games should not become the norm for "competition" on pc. That's what it's all about for me, so if that part doesn't work out for Epic, I'm happy.
Well, they didn't reach 54 exclusives last year and they aren't even half way lower number this 2021. so...I hope you're right. In the end I don't care if EGS succeeds or not. My only concern is that moneyhatting 3rd party games should not become the norm for "competition" on pc. That's what it's all about for me, so if that part doesn't work out for Epic, I'm happy.
Let's hope the flopping of Kingdom Hearts demotivates Epic even more to money hat expensive 3rd party games. These games must have costed them a 9 digit number at least.
1984 by the end of 2020
That is their plan. If you compare the actual P&L to the planned P&L, the EGS numbers are not that bad.
What's weird is the previous page shows them wanting >125 exclusives in 2021 so I'm not sure which one is correct. Also the "Catalog Titles" portion shows that they were probably supposed to open the store last year, but COVID threw everything off. Also the fact they want >1300 games per year by 2023 means they are eventually going to have to tackle discoverability.this one?
Am I the only one lost between cackling and making googly eyes at their expected market share capture by 2024? This is some Square-level of delusion. 50% if steam doesn't react, u wot m8. At the same time, it does speak volumes about Epic's intention and the risk they present as well as expectations for their behavior should they ever succeed.this one?
still shit ... even more so than before
(and they still haven't fixed it)
This is just unrealistic, not even 2019 which was their sparkling moment reached that number, hell, not even 2020 reached the 330 signed games IN TOTAL (including the 2019 list) so yeah, numbers do not match with reality.What's weird is the previous page shows them wanting >125 exclusives in 2021 so I'm not sure which one is correct. Also the "Catalog Titles" portion shows that they were probably supposed to open the store last year, but COVID threw everything off. Also the fact they want >1300 games per year by 2023 means they are eventually going to have to tackle discoverability.
