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Chazore said:

JEMC said:

So, Epic has more customers that have spend more money in total, but roughly the same amount by user and less in third party games. And they've also gvine away less free games.

Not sure what to make with that info if they don't say if they've made a profit or not.

Curious, to a degree, that 4 of the Mythic games of 2022 repeat in 2023, and two of them are from Epic.

I think they are going to start betting on the customers they've managed to net over the past 4 years, into actually buying games they have, while they lessen the freebies the way EA did in the past, eventually to a complete halt.

Wouldn't be surprised if they start to emulate Ubisoft/MS/EA and start a sub service to rent with, especially if they manage to snag some studios with the program they had go into effect last oct (the stay exclusive for 6 months, keep the majority of the profits). 

I still don't think it's wise of them to be doing it at this point in time. 

They've said that they were giving away games to grow their customer base, but the free games won't be a thing forever. It's not sustainable for long, at least with big AA or AAA games. And it's fine and perfectly understandable,

I don't think they can go with a subscription service right now because their most popular games are free, making money with in-game microtransactions. They'll need to buy and grow a bigger library to be able to pull that off. But, on the other hand, they will eventually go with streaming content because, like it or not (I don't), that's where the industry will go, just like we went from physical games to digital distribution.

And you can bet that Valve and GOG (if they have the resources) will also go that way in time.