Epic Games is moving full steam ahead with its 4-year-old online store, launching tools to self-publish video games and prepping it for the day it can finally appear on iPhones and Androids.
Epic Games Store’s library is far smaller, at about 1% of the games sold in Steam, estimates Steve Allison, general manager of Epic’s Store., are meant to address that by opening the marketplace to many more games, though with tighter restrictions than Steam on content — no porn, for example —that Allison says will prevent them from fully catching up on overall game count.
The operations of the store are profitable using Epic's 12% cut of revenue, Allison says, though the company is spending beyond that on exclusives and marketing .The Epic Games Store’s popular release of monthly free games will continue in 2023, but the company is de-emphasizing EGS as a place for exclusive games., to exclusively sell some major PC games like Borderlands 3 and the celebrated Hades.
A sustainable approach can’t rely on shelling out for expensive exclusives, Allison says, noting the portion of store revenue coming from exclusive games has healthily declined from 75% in the store’s first year to 40%-45% in 2022. “The message is definitely changing from 'we're the place to go to do exclusive partnership deals' to 'we're a great option that you should be launching with the same time you launch everywhere else across console and PC,'” says Allison.
Epic will generate some PC exclusives through its nascent game-publishing division, which has about 15 PC/console games in the pipeline, including Remedy’s Alan Wake II. Games from acquired studios like Psyonix and Mediatonic help, Sweeney said, though he downplayed the chance of Epic buying more teams. Epic, he says, has “no intent to expand to become a massive game conglomerate, like Activision or Electronic Arts.
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