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⭐Rodent⭐ Apr 16 @ 4:52pm
Why does a single Epic game have more players than all of Steam?
Fortnite #N/A 30,950,114
Lots more than all steam most played games together :lunar2019deadpanpig:
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Blatthew Apr 16 @ 4:54pm 
that would be because fortnite is absolutely massive. as a free to play game the barrier of entry comes down to if you have enough space on your pc.
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⭐Rodent⭐ Apr 16 @ 4:55pm 
Originally posted by Blatthew:
that would be because fortnite is absolutely massive. as a free to play game the barrier of entry comes down to if you have enough space on your pc.

It was always like this? Fornite on the top?
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Chompman Apr 16 @ 4:57pm 
Where are you getting this number as there are sites that track the players of games like that and it averages at less then 1.5 million most of the time?

Also fortnite has multiple games you launch from it and it's not just the shooter version.
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rawWwRrr Apr 16 @ 5:06pm 
Originally posted by ⭐Rodent⭐:
Why does a single Epic game have more players than all of Steam?

Fortnite #N/A 30,950,114
Lots more than all steam most played games together :lunar2019deadpanpig:
Did you need help with Steam? That's the point of this forum, after all.
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cSg|mc-Hotsauce Apr 16 @ 6:01pm 
Originally posted by ⭐Rodent⭐:
Why does a single Epic game have more players than all of Steam?

Fortnite #N/A 30,950,114
Lots more than all steam most played games together :lunar2019deadpanpig:

Children. Lots of children spending their parents money on V-bucks.

:nkCool:
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smokerob79 Apr 16 @ 11:47pm 
Im happy they have given out so many free games....got to play a lot of stuff i would never have thought was worth the time like tomb raider series and batman arkham series.....i have over 400 free games now....and lots of them i am really playing.....i even ended up buying borderlands 3 with all the DLC for like 10 bucks on one of their sales as they gave away the base game i had spent 150 hours in.....

even saying all this i will NEVER touch FartLite :steamhappy:
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Mr. Smiles Apr 17 @ 7:22am 
Because that single game is keeping all of epic games afloat...
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smokerob79 Apr 17 @ 8:44am 
Originally posted by Mr. Smiles:
Because that single game is keeping all of epic games afloat...


yeah like Unreal Engine is doing nothing in the gaming industry.......clueless....
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Mr. Smiles Apr 17 @ 10:01am 
Originally posted by smokerob79:
Originally posted by Mr. Smiles:
Because that single game is keeping all of epic games afloat...


yeah like Unreal Engine is doing nothing in the gaming industry.......clueless....
In comparison to how much fortnite is making, yes, unreal 5 licenses make next to nothing.

Next.
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Teksura Apr 17 @ 10:17am 
Originally posted by ⭐Rodent⭐:
Fortnite #N/A 30,950,114
Lots more than all steam most played games together :lunar2019deadpanpig:

https://store.steampowered.com/charts


36,691,799
PEAK ONLINE

31,976,308
ONLINE NOW



I'm not sure you understand what the word "more" means.
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Haruspex Apr 17 @ 10:28am 
Originally posted by Teksura:
Originally posted by ⭐Rodent⭐:
Fortnite #N/A 30,950,114
Lots more than all steam most played games together :lunar2019deadpanpig:

https://store.steampowered.com/charts

36,691,799
PEAK ONLINE

31,976,308
ONLINE NOW

I'm not sure you understand what the word "more" means.

I was going to show this, but then I remembered "online" does not mean "playing".

Some facts:
  • According to a report from last year, Steam has a larger share of revenue than all of console gaming combined[www.visualcapitalist.com]. (PC gaming overall at 45 billion. Console gaming at 30 billion. Steam has 70% of the PC market. 70% of 45 billion is 31.5 billion.)

  • Mobile gaming is freaking massive and absolutely dwarfs everything with a staggering 101 billion dollars in revenue. Grandma's candy crush addiction is very lucrative.

  • Fortnite is not just a PC game, it's on every console and on mobile too.

  • Fortnite is free to play, which lowers the barrier of entry and will massively boost player numbers, especially among kids who don't have a lot of disposable income.

That's pretty much it. Mobile will skew all gaming statistics, and it's effectively a different market from gaming as a whole, so any stats that include mobile should be looked at with skepticism. (E.G. Reports that show gamers are more than 60% female include mobile. If you exclude mobile, gamers are roughly 81% male.)

I would be very curious to see Fortnite numbers excluding mobile, but Epic is unlikely to make those public.
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