Friday, December 7th 2018
Epic Games Begins Moving its Games Off Steam and on to its Own Store Platform
Epic Games is moving its entire collection of digitally-sold games away from Steam, and on to its own new store+DRM platform rivaling Steam, Origin, and UPlay. The new Epic Games Store plans not only to sell games published by Epic, but also other third-party publishers, to whom Epic is promising an 88% revenue share (keeping a 12% thin margin for handing DRM, unlimited downloads, and update patch distribution). For comparison, Steam rakes in a 30% margin. Epic is offering additional incentives to third-party game studios who use Unreal Engine. Epic Games titles are being pulled out from Steam store. The move does not affect people who already own Epic titles on Steam, as future re-installs and patch updates will continue.
58 Comments on Epic Games Begins Moving its Games Off Steam and on to its Own Store Platform
@coonbro come on man, you are living in the past. You will end up with nothing but 20 year old games if you keep up with that mentality. Are you sure you don’t wear tinfoil clothing?
Let me give you a solution. Check out GOG. Lots of new and recent games on there too, not just old. Buy games, and download them, don’t install their Galaxy client.
You can then at least play newer games without having to go to the internet after install, play them from a shortcut, and they will always be yours. This should bring you into the current time period, and still counter some of your worries.
And Steam 'going offline' yes... so annoying. Its funny, but if you look at the actual bugs they fixed, the serious description would have been far too shocking :p Especially the last one...