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.
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.
To me it’s alright solely because of Heroic Games Launcher that covers the Epic Store and GOG.
I must admit I rarely end up playing the games from Epic, but they do give away some really good games from time to time.
To be clear, I would probably never actually buy anything from Epic for a few different reasons, but getting free games is cool.
Epic is the store where I redeem games I will never play.
I already do that on Steam and itch.io, though, is it really worth it to add a third launcher to the pile that doesn’t even support Linux?
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.
To me it’s alright solely because of Heroic Games Launcher that covers the Epic Store and GOG. I must admit I rarely end up playing the games from Epic, but they do give away some really good games from time to time. To be clear, I would probably never actually buy anything from Epic for a few different reasons, but getting free games is cool.
Supposedly I’m up to over 400 games on Epic without any purchases through the platform AFAIK and I’ve probably played like 10 of them.