JEMC said:
Viv, Epic already has Fortnite and gives away free AAA games most weeks. If that's not enough to bring players to their store, Rocket League won't change that. But if they really want to try it, it could work better with an hypothetical Rocket League 2, free to play like you mention and with the option to import your profile from the first game. |
That's like saying that Sony should stop creating exclusive games because they already have enough to stay forever relevant. Just like Sony's brand power is based on many years and hundreds of quality exclusives as well as the continued release of said exclusives Epic need continuous output to bring more people over. Except that Epic has a giant monolith as competition and needs to do 10 times more to even start to be competitive.
RL is gonna be one of their bigger deals and will certainly draw a good bunch of people to them. All they need is to convince people to sign up and every little bit helps. RL is gonna be a pretty big little bit. And again, nothing is actually happening to the game or its players. Literally the only thing that's happening is that they remove the buy button on Steam. Something they probably wouldn't even need to do if the game launches F2P on EGS. Because why buy it on Steam when you can get it for free on EGS.
Epic is small compared to Valve. The question of "Why does Epic need more when it already has so much" seems a bit silly when you compare it to how much Valve has.
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