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Epic Games Store Users Have Grown by 173% in Six Years, But Revenue Only by 1.6% (www.eteknix.com)

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[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I wonder how much all those free games are costing them. Do they pay the developers to give their game away for free?

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 10 points 2 days ago

From what I remember, Epic pays the developer a flat fee to gibe the game away for free.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don't think they're paying retail price per copy, but I'm pretty sure they exchange some money with an up front payment. Makes you wonder if they expect people to pay for other games on the client, or if they're getting their money back in other ways.

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm sure it's so you visit the store once a week. For online stores visits are the only way you get sales, so they want you to visit as often as possible.

There is probably some data that the client sends too. But that is the defacto standard these days.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It's funny though, they really don't seem to be selling very hard to me when I claim the weekly games. I have no intention of buying there but seems like they would try harder.