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Hitekno.com – During 2020 Epic Game Store recorded active users on its platform which increased to more than 160 million. Amount followers that is up from 108 million in 2019.
Quoted from the official page Epic Games, Friday (29/1/2021), the growth of daily active users also increased to 31.3 million players or the equivalent of 192 percent.
The game store platform also noted that there were 13 million users who played simultaneously in one day, up 7 million from 2019. Meanwhile, its monthly users in December rose 32 million from 2019 to 56 million monthly active players.
“We would like to take the time to thank all the partners who have helped us bring joy to many gamers around the world over the last year,” he said. write Epic Games on its official website.
“Adapting to changing challenges is not easy. We thank the community of developers, publishers, players and creators,” he added.
This surge in active players also resulted in an increase in game purchases and playtime. During 2020, Epic Games Store recorded total game purchase transactions reaching 700 million US dollars or Rp 9.7 trillion, of which third party games represented 37 percent with a figure of 265 million US dollars or Rp 3.7 trillion.
Meanwhile, the time spent playing the game was recorded at 5.7 billion hours, up 70 percent from 2019 with 3.35 billion hours played.
Seeing this, Epic Games is committed to continuing to increase the number of games on its platform. During 2020, the list of games on the platform has grown to 471 games, growing from 190 games from 2019. They also release 103 free games weekly which users can play.
Within a year, Epic Games made a schedule of the top ten best-selling games played. The top ten include Assassins Creed Valhalla, Satisfactory Early Access, Fortnite, Snow Runner, Godfall, Borderlands 3, Rocket League, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2, GTA V, and Rogue Company.
Later Epic Games is committed to developing features on the platform. There are several features that will become a priority during 2021, namely increasing wishlists, player profiles, awards, and social overhaul. (Voice.com/Dicky Prastya)
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