The Epic Games Store is a video game digital distribution service and storefront operated by Epic Games. It launched in December 2018 as a software client, for Microsoft Windows and macOS, and online storefront. The service provides friends list management, game matchmaking, and other features. Epic Games has further plans to expand the feature set of the storefront but it does not plan to add as many features as other digital distribution platforms, such as discussion boards or user reviews, instead using existing social media platforms to support these.
Epic began offering digital distribution for game publishers after the success of Fortnite, released in 2017, which Epic distributed using their own software channels to players on Windows and macOS systems. Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games, stated in August 2017 that the revenue cut of Steam, the dominant game storefront from Valve, was unreasonably high at 30%, and suggested that they could run a profitable store with as little as an 8% cut. By launch, Epic Games had settled on a 12% revenue cut for titles published through the store, as well as dropping the licensing fees for games built on their Unreal Engine, normally 5% of the revenue.
Epic Games enticed developers and publishers to the service by offering them time-exclusivity agreements to publish on the storefront, in exchange for guaranteed minimum revenue. Epic also offered users one or two free games each week for the first five years of its operation to help draw users. Criticism from users has been drawn to Epic Games and those developers and publishers opting for exclusivity deals, asserting that these are segmenting the market.
The EpicGamesStore is a video game digital distribution service and storefront operated by EpicGames. It launched in December 2018 as a software client...
EpicGames, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as...
EpicGames is an American video game and software developer based in Cary, North Carolina. It was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in...
with EpicGames which made Dauntless available on PC exclusively through the EpicGamesstore and required all players to sign in using an EpicGames account...
of revenue they would see from each sale. EpicGames' Tim Sweeney, prior to launching the EpicGamesStore, had estimated that the current costs for delivering...
31, 2023. "Owlcat Games Closes Out Community Quest with EpicGamesStore Announcement and Epic-er Story Trailer" (Press release). June 1, 2021. Retrieved...
"Transistor from Supergiant Games gets a reveal trailer". VG247. Retrieved March 19, 2013. "Transistor Is Free on EpicGamesStore Starting Today". Retrieved...
Refenes criticized Apple's App Store, calling it "awful" and "horrible" and likened its games to the crude Tiger Electronics games that were popular in the...
integration for software purchased from GOG, Humble Bundle, Steam, and EpicGamesStore; those can be launched directly through the Lutris application. Additionally...
developed by Iron Galaxy and published by EpicGames Publishing. The game was released for Windows via EpicGamesStore, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox...
royalty model, with Epic charging 5% of revenues over US$1 million, which is waived for games published on the EpicGamesStore. Epic has incorporated features...
Worlds would launch exclusively on EpicGamesStore – and wouldn't be coming to Steam until 2020 – appeared at Epic's keynote address at GDC earlier this...
consumer market, including the first set of games that would take advantage of the new technology. The EpicGamesStore continued its growth in challenging the...
EpicGames on a one-year exclusivity deal for the PC version of their upcoming game Metro Exodus on Epic's digital distribution storefront, the Epic Games...
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distribution platform for PCs and a direct competitor to Valve's Steam and EpicGames' Store. EA also owns and operates major gaming studios such as DICE, Motive...
for Xbox Series X/S and Microsoft Windows via the Microsoft Store, Steam, and EpicGamesStore. The game also would be released on PS5 in June 11, 2024....
published by YAGER and was initially only available on the PC via the EpicGamesStore. The game ran for 3 seasons but underwent a pivot in 2021 from the...
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