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. In fact, it has barely moved — up only 1.6%, reaching $255 million in 2024. A Massive User Base, but Weak Revenue Growth Between 2019 and 2022, during the pandemic years, Epic experienced solid revenue growth. But after that period, things took a sharp downturn. Revenue dropped back to pre-COVID levels, creating a double problem: while the number of users increased dramatically, earnings actually decreased
I believe it is the free games, sir.
There is remotely nothing about that launcher that makes me go “yup, I’m happy to have this thing installed”. Tim Sweeny seems to love eating his own shit as his diet, because he seems to believe he’s superior than Valve.
Why does their launcher suck so much bandwidth and CPU usage to get a game downloaded? Jesus.
I have a few dozen epic games, but I have never once bought anything from the store. I probably never will also. Not even dlc’s for the free games i got. I have repurchased free epic games i like on other stores like steam and gog though. I think its the vibe that epic radiates. Also it really does seem to take much longer to download games on epic.