Suggest That Steam Be more like Epic Games

[76561199540158642]

Over the last few years Epic games has made Steam look like its Cheap, over 60 free quality games a year from Epic, how can Steam who boosts a multi million dollar profit every year let epic games show them up like that.

Steam should really take a page from the Epic Play Book and do better for its users and stop being considered 2nd best by everyone into gaming.

[Thermal Lance]

Yeah, Steam should totally copy Epic and start bleeding money at a crazy rate.

[76561199540158642]

gotta spend money to make money, epic is stealing steams customers away

[Nx Machina]

https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-games-is-laying-off-more-than-800-people/

Epic Games is laying off more than 800 people: 'We've been spending way more money than we earn'

[Pscht]

OP, be more like Epic and gift everyone games. I'm waiting.

[Zarineth]

Oh, so you are Epic employee after all...

[76561199540158642]

steam doesn't even have 800 people to lay off, so questionable content, once gain epic is doing something that steam can't. give players free games and laying off more people then steam even employee's with plenty of people to spare.

[Pscht]

I'm still waiting for my free games from OP.

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by Killer Unicorn:

steam doesn't even have 800 people to lay off, so questionable content, once gain epic is doing something that steam can't. give players free games and laying off more people then steam even employee's with plenty of people to spare.

Epic is bleeding money.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/five-years-after-it-took-on-steam-epic-games-store-is-yet-to-make-a-penny-of-profit

Five years after it took on Steam, Epic Games Store is yet to make a penny of profit

“For a while now, we've been spending way more money than we earn,” said CEO Tim Sweeney at the time. (Sweeney, for his part, remains staunchly un-laid-off.) It seems like that is certainly true for the Epic Games Store too, and may remain that way for a while - even as Epic hopes to eventually see it turn a profit.


After all they should have expected a Fallout when not balancing their books.

[Aachen]

Where’s your survey demonstrating your wild assertions about our beliefs?!

Sheesh.

There are lots of free-to-play and freely-offered games on the service.

Demanding Valve subsidize your gaming is ridiculously pie-in-the-sky; good luck, AAR, traveler.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Killer Unicorn:

Steam should really take a page from the Epic Play Book and do better for its users and stop being considered 2nd best by everyone into gaming.

Nah, i prefer steam remain profitable as well as not getting hit by record breaking fines and repeatedly failing. Epic is pretty much the textbook example of what NOT to do, hence why they've lost over a BILLION dollars so far

[AmsterdamHeavy]

Originally posted by Killer Unicorn:

gotta spend money to make money, epic is stealing steams customers away

Panhandlers and beggars dont make Valve any margin.

[rawWwRrr]

Epic is doing what Epic thinks it needs to do. There is no reason for Steam to copy the business model.

Imagine the backlash Steam would get if they suddenly mirrored Epic.

Epic is trying to establish market share. Steam doesn't have that problem.

[HikariLight]

Originally posted by Killer Unicorn:

steam doesn't even have 800 people to lay off, so questionable content, once gain epic is doing something that steam can't. give players free games and laying off more people then steam even employee's with plenty of people to spare.

Epic then has to turn around and pay the game devs/pubs for every license of those free games that gets added to an account.
Those games are free for the user, not for Epic.
Epic also shells out millions to gain exclusivity deals, some temporary, some permanent, because Epic cannot naturally draw customers, they have to force them to come via being the only store with the game.
Steam does not have to force anything as the games on Steam are there because the developers of the game want them there, not because they got payed for it.
The EGS will be unable to make any money at this rate.
The only thing preventing them from going under is sales of Unreal Engine and micro transactions from Fortnite, but that cannot sustain them forever.

[Azure Fang]

tl;dr
OP lowkey begging for free games.

[Tanoomba]

Nice day for fishing.