Epic Games Store now open!

[ic1male]

So how does purchasing EA games from Epic work? Do they get added straight to Origin and run as if you bought the game in Origin itself? Opening in Origin, it doesn't open the Epic Games Launcher as a second requirement to launch the game, as Steam-bought games on Origin do?

 

[ic1male]

Alien Isolation today!

Seems to be having a funny half hour though. Asked me to sign in upon launch today which it hasn't ever done.

 

[ic1male]

You might get a one-time £5 off a basket of £30 if you're lucky with Steam. We'll know in 20-odd hours.

 

[ic1male]

Interesting information revealed in court papers -

"A new court filing has revealed some interesting new details about Epic Games and Epic Games Store. According to the filing, Epic has lost around $181 million & $273 million on EGS in 2019 and 2020, respectively. This basically means that Epic Games Store has not been profitable these past two years. Epic expects its store to turn a profit in 2023..."

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/epic...million-on-egs-in-2019-and-2020-respectively/

 

[ic1male]

But they did. When Valve first opened up Steam to non-valve games they signed exclusivity deals with the first games on the system. An example of this is Darwinia, for which digital copies had to be removed from the devs own store and had to be sold via Steam - https://forums.introversion.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=40203

Interesting. I don't think I would have ever played Darwinia if it hadn't been on Steam. Turned out to be one of the best games I've ever played and still is 16 years later.