steam sale vs epic store sale

[The Doomed One]

steam: 2.5 bucks (100 rubles) once for purchases from 9 bucks (600 rubles) vs Epic store: multiple coupons for ~9.5 bucks (650 rubles) after each purchase for 13 bucks (900 rubles). this is all that steam has to offer?! \ стим: 2.5 бакса (100рублей) единоразово при покупки от 9 баксов (600 рублей) vs Эпик стор: множества купонов на ~9,5 баксов (650 рублей) после каждой покупки на 13 баксов (900 рублей). это все что может предложить стим?!

[nullable]

While you're free to compare whatever you want. Steam doesn't need to out do the Epic store. They just need to run their own sale and count their mountain of money. If the Epic sale was so amazing why not buy every game you ever wanted from Epic and not worry about the Steam sale?

Maybe that's what you'll do next year... having learned a lesson. And if Epic stops being so generous with their unsustainable business model you'll just have to remember their good ol' days.

[Brian9824]

Steam doesn't have to operate at a loss to get people to use it, Epic does.

[cinedine]

Epic has given away half their games for free already. And most of the other games where on big sales already. What's there left to buy?

[The Doomed One]

sad...

[Snapjak]

So go buy and live with Epic. Anyone who looks at it will know that Epic is only going to do this until they have a good user base.

[Crazy Tiger]

Първоначално публикувано от The Slave of System:

sad...

It's not. Learn about market strategies and you understand why one store needs to do it while the oth doesn't.

Besides, just because company A does something, doesn't mean company B has to do the same.

Just use both stores and stop adding to try and make a war out of it.

[Kargor]

The story is really quite simple.

The Steam store is a well established player; Epic is new. So, it's basically Epic that needs to get attention.

I don't know business numbers for either shop and the platforms behind them (I don't know business number for something like Humblebundle or Fanatical either, but their livelihood has limited impact on the gaming world. If Steam goes down, it's not just a store -- it's the entire platform with all our games).

( In fact, I've always wondered how gameshops survive, but that's a different thing entirely ).

However, I'm not seeing "panic reactions" from Steam -- the only change right now is that I'm getting a red banner promising me a €5 discount on a €30 purchase; which is not THAT different to the coupon they had before (the points are a paywall too, they just made it more direct now). One could say they introduced this a few years ago, but that's about it. It still doesn't feel like some Valve financial experts have looked at recent numbers and figured out "we have to do something... ideas, anyone?"

I am seeing Epic behavior that can only be described as "things might not go the way they want it", though. Their giveaways have become an established Thursday-evening ritual; I doubt they had that in mind when they started it quite some time back. And a lot of their sale discounts seem to be based on THEM paying for it. (and even that has caused issues in the past; whether it's publishers getting pissed as Epic just changed the prices that are displayed on their games, or publishers just raising prices for a sale to pocket the Epic money instead of giving it to customers).

Steam has absolutely no reason to go down to their level. Epic is trying to play a money-burning game, and Steam throwing their own money at the fire would actually reward Epic -- because in doing so, Steam would acknowledge that they take Epic seriously so they are now trying to beat them at THEIR game.

[Funkey]

i think steam is superior to epic just in general