Just like the Steamworks self-publishing tool for developers on the Steam platform, Epic Games finally officially launched its own game last night (9)self-publishing toolso that developers can put it on the Epic Games Store by themselves, as long as they pay $100, which is the same as the price of the Steam platform.
according toOfficial AnnouncementIt briefly lists the steps of EGS listing, and also emphasizes that there are some “special requirements”. The biggest difference from Steam is that Epic Games prohibits adult pornographic games, and of course hate, discrimination or infringing content is not allowed.
Another important requirement is that multiplayer games must support cross-platform games in all PC stores, ensuring that players who purchase multiplayer games in any store can easily connect with other players without being restricted by the platform they purchased the game from.
CEO Tim Sweeney toForeign media emphasizethe cross-platform connection requirements of multiplayer games are especially aimed at the problem that the Steamworks API multiplayer connection cannot be connected, because the API service of Steamworks multiplayer connection is limited to the Steam platform, which causes many games to be launched on the EGS platform. The multiplayer function cannot be used, and some games can only cancel the multiplayer function when they are released.
Therefore, Sweeney especially emphasized that his own connection service API can support the cross-platform connection function between PC and home console. This is the same technology that “Fortnite” already has. Obviously, the purpose of Epic Games is still to hope that more people will use it. EGS platform.
In order to achieve this goal, Epic Games also announced the 2022 schedule on the same day.annual reviewthe main achievements are:
- Epic Games Store now has over 230 million PC gamers, up 36 million from 2021
- Epic cross-platform accounts total 723 million
- EGS to reach up to 34.3 million daily active users in 2022
- EGS reaches 68 million monthly active users, up from 62 million last year
- 626 new PC games launched in 2022, totaling 1,548 games now
- Gamers spend $355 million on third-party apps, an 18% annual growth rate
- Including Epic’s own games, players will spend $820 million in 2022, down 2% from 2021, showing that the influence of “Fortnite” is fading
- In 2022, EGS gave away a total of 99 free games with a total value of 2,240 US dollars. Last year, players received a total of 700 million free games
Finally, Epic Games is also very happy to tell players here that the weekly Free Games plan will continue in 2023, which also means that Epic Games still has considerable funds to compete with the Steam platform.
