Epic Counters an Analyst’s Claim That Players Only Use It for Free Games, Stating That It Hit an All-Time Sales Record of $400 Million in 2025

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No one can deny that the Epic Games Store is the place to go for free games, but according to one analyst, it might not be enough to keep EGS sustainable. It’s no secret that gamers can be a fickle bunch, and one thing is certain: launcher fatigue can set in. While numerous gaming apps […]

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If Alan Wake 2 gets cheap enough ($10 or less), I'll pick it up on the EGS despite my distaste for Epic, Fortnite, Tim Sweeny, the whole shebang. I even went and downloaded the EGS app and sideloaded it onto my phone because I'm at work quite a bit and naturally cannot access Steam/EGS etc through the firewall, so for Steam I am almost always buying games off the app.

Well imagine my surprise when I learned the EGS app for Android *doesn't let you buy/add PC games, only mobile phone games* and I just gave up on EGS again.

In the year of our lord 2026, can EGS ****ing do anything right?
 
Interesting

At the same time:
Annual Earnings: Analysts and industry data estimate Fortnite brought in around $5 billion to $6 billion during 2025, continuing its streak of earning billions annually.

Take-away: Epic can’t even sell their own crap on EGS very well
 
I am curious what their burn rate is. Something tells me 400 million isnt a profit.
 
To each its own but I can't remember the last time I bought a game on steam. IMO all game services are pretty much the same, not one is better than the other.
 
To each its own but I can't remember the last time I bought a game on steam.
Then maybe you have stopped playing recent games? Because where else would you buy your games from? There's Fanatical and Humble Bundle if you want games cheaper than Steam but they will still be Steam keys.
 
Then maybe you have stopped playing recent games? Because where else would you buy your games from? There's Fanatical and Humble Bundle if you want games cheaper than Steam but they will still be Steam keys.

GoG is an often overlooked option. I guarantee they'll have the latest Witcher title whenever that releases.
 
Then maybe you have stopped playing recent games? Because where else would you buy your games from? There's Fanatical and Humble Bundle if you want games cheaper than Steam but they will still be Steam keys.
I've also used Green Man Gaming too on occasion.

I guarantee they'll have the latest Witcher title whenever that releases.
Well yeah, considering GoG used to be internally known as CD Projekt Blue before they split off and became independent. But CDPR has always been committed to DRM-free gaming. I appreciated when they gave owners of Witcher 2 Steam versions a free copy of Witcher 2 on GOG. Wish they had done that with Witcher 3 as well, but I guess it was to be expected.

To each its own but I can't remember the last time I bought a game on steam.
Do you mean bought games directly from/through Steam, getting a Steam key from elsewhere (like GMG or Humble or whatever), or from a competing storefront (like EGS and Origin and uPlay/Connect and all that)?



I only grab the free games from EGS because I already had an existing Epic account, and was already using the Epic launcher, before there even was an Epic Games Store, because I was messing around with Unreal Engine 4 dev stuff. Then when EGS first showed up, it was really only a place to buy assets for game development. Then there was an experiment: the game Shadow Complex (which was previously exclusive to Xbox 360) was ported to PC, and it was being offered for free to existing Epic users, exclusively on EGS. I thought this was weird but whatever, I was happy to have the game on PC finally, and to get it for free. I had no idea this was a test to expand EGS into an actual platform for selling video games from all publishers.

To this day I have never bought a game on EGS. I grab most of the free games but I never really use them. In some situations I've used a friend's Steam version of a game that I actually have on EGS. Sometimes I've bought a game on Steam I didn't know I already had on EGS. I don't even have the launcher installed on any of my PCs currently, I don't think. I always grab the free games through the website. I really only use Steam and GOG. Sometimes I'll double-dip between the two, but nowhere else. I just really don't see a reason to make purchases on EGS instead of elsewhere.
 
I've also used Green Man Gaming too on occasion.
They are scum. Had an issue where a few years old Steam key I had missed failed to activate. Emailed them and they are like, contact the developers. We can't help you. I threatened them that I would no longer be their customer. They were like, whatever. Bunch of fat retards working in their customer service. Just yesterday, I claimed 22 previously unclaimed Steam keys from my Fanatical library since 2023. I forget or life gets hectic but a key is a key is a key. There is no way it shouldn't activate unless those GMG douches are reselling unclaimed keys.
 
They are scum. Had an issue where a few years old Steam key I had missed failed to activate. Emailed them and they are like, contact the developers. We can't help you. I threatened them that I would no longer be their customer. They were like, whatever. Bunch of fat retards working in their customer service. Just yesterday, I claimed 22 previously unclaimed Steam keys from my Fanatical library since 2023. I forget or life gets hectic but a key is a key is a key. There is no way it shouldn't activate unless those GMG douches are reselling unclaimed keys.
Through any 3rd party key vendor I always use a virtual credit card. It protects me if the card gets compromised.. and you can reverse charges easier there too.
 
They are scum. Had an issue where a few years old Steam key I had missed failed to activate. Emailed them and they are like, contact the developers. We can't help you. I threatened them that I would no longer be their customer. They were like, whatever. Bunch of fat retards working in their customer service. Just yesterday, I claimed 22 previously unclaimed Steam keys from my Fanatical library since 2023. I forget or life gets hectic but a key is a key is a key. There is no way it shouldn't activate unless those GMG douches are reselling unclaimed keys.
Woooooooooooooooooooow!!!
 
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