Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney in an interview for PC Gamer magazine confirmed that the philosophy with which the company approaches exclusives for its digital store Epic Games Store has not changed. However, Sweeney mentioned that the company’s management analyzes the success of individual titles in detail and their influence on the number of users of the mentioned store.
At this point, the company’s boss revealed that a small handful of really big time-exclusive titles had a noticeable effect on the balance of power and the influx of new users. On the contrary, even a larger number of smaller, exclusive card games failed to stir things up too much. From this statement, it is clear that in the future Epic will focus on a narrower offer of exclusive titles in terms of number, which should, however, be made up of mostly big AAA games.
A good example of such a strategy could be, for example, the upcoming Alan Wake 2, which will be exclusively on the Epic Games Store within the PC market. In the past, Epic paid time exclusivity for other big games like Metro Exodus, Borderlands 3 or Saints Row.
