Epic Games Store said that the performance of the platform will grow substantially in 2020.Picture: Reversed from Epic Games official website
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Game e-commerce platform Epic Game Store recently announced its2020 Annual Review Report, Which pointed out that EGS’s achievements in 2020 have achieved significant growth. Players spent more than 700 million US dollars on EGS in 2020, and about 37% of the total US$265 million in sales came from third-party games.
Epic Game Store, a gaming e-commerce platform, has gradually grown into Steam’s main e-commerce competitor on the PC side. Although EGS does not provide diversified functions like Steam, it still provides free games every week and exclusive games for a limited time. Successfully attracted some consumers.
Recently EGS released its 2020 annual review report, which stated that EGS currently has more than 160 million PC users, and daily active users have increased by 192% to 31.3 million. This year’s record of simultaneous online users is from 2019. Of 700,000 increased to 1.3 million, and monthly active users increased from 32 million to 56 million in December. In contrast, EGS and Steam still have nearly doubled the gap between monthly login users (120.4 million), daily login users (62.6 million), and the peak number of concurrent users (24.8 million).
EGS also stated that PC players will spend more than US$700 million on the platform in 2020, of which about 37% (US$265 million) are third-party games. EGS stated that the consumption of third-party games does not include the value of official coupons, Epic developer sponsorships, or other promotional activities. It is the total consumption of genuine players. EGS also gave away a total of 103 free games worth US$2,407 for players to download in 2020. The total number of downloads of these free games exceeded 749 million times.
EGS officials also stated that they intend to continue to strengthen EGS services in 2021, including opening up developer distribution tools to make it easier for developers to list games on EGS; and improving various functions such as wishlists, community reforms, achievements, and player profiles. , So that EGS can gradually rival its main rivals in functionality. The official also stated that the strategy of distributing free games every week will continue in 2021.
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