jacobvandy wrote on Feb 15, 2025, 00:01:
They had some solid deals while the unlimited $10 coupons were a thing. But they've had several sales now without them, so it seems that gravy train has left the station. Maybe that has something to do with their third-party sales falling by a double-digit percentage for the second year in a row...

That is probably a contributing factor and then there is the "normal" post-CoVid slump. Pretty much all publishers have reported lower sales in 2023/2024 compared to 2020 - 2022.

Personally, I haven't contributed either. I bought MechWarrior 5 and that Privateer clone, Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, on EGS back when they were exclusive and I believe I got an extra copy of 'A Plague Tale Innocence ' (or Requiem?) many moons ago just to support the devs but otherwise I haven't bought a game on EGS in the past three years or so.

I would have probably bought their exclusive Alan Wake 2 (which is 1st party I guess since Epic is the publisher) but I'm not a fan of that consolized trash so that hasn't happened. I own 485 games on EGS. With the exception of the three-ish purchases mentioned above, they are all freebies.

Going forward, I would only buy a game from EGS if it is a 1st party exclusive like Alan Wake 2. It is naturally Epic's prerogative to sell a game exclusively on their platform if they are the publisher. I'm actually a little surprised that they (Epic Publishing) haven't signed more such exclusive games yet.

Anyway, their metrics show that their store is doing pretty well in spite of the relative decline. They are miles and miles above GOG at least. Epic's 3rd party revenue alone is still a factor of 5x to 6x more than GOG's total revenue (CD Projekt products included).