Fortnite Dev Challenges Steam With Competitive Marketplace

Unfortunately I'd say you're too late to the game. With 200 odd games in my steam library, you'd need to be offering some pretty substantial discounts for me to jump over. If say this is probably the case with most

Valve have been sitting on their laurels for too long. Steam is a pretty decent platform now with a lot of good features & there is definitely the "I want everything in one place" factor but their sales aren't as good as they used to be & they haven't exactly innovated a lot with their service. The Steam Workshop is nice to have but many mods require the Nexus Mods launcher anyway.

Between Origin, Uplay, Battle.Net & GOG, many people's games are getting split between different platforms anyway, the "everything in one place" excuse is already disappearing so perhaps consumers will be willing to give a new platform a try. They're going to have to give some good incentives to buy somewhere other than Steam though & pricing will be a big factor.

Whether this succeeds or fails, hopefully it will introduce a bit more competition to the market & consumers will win out in the end.

If Epic doesn't allow trash onto their marketplace like Steam does I might support them. There is that whole thing of Tencent owning that I don't like but I feel that sacrifices have to be made to get the message across to Steam that I don't appreciate the hands-off approach they've taken.

Not bad idea, but would like to know how this will work in the long run. No game is in the top forever.

Lol good luck.

Let’s just say it won’t happen in a fortnight.

Epic Games are owned by Chinese mega-corporation Tencent, so I wont buy anything from them. I don't want Tencent to have a monopoly on the gaming industry.

Their aim is to take out if possible all Unreal engine content from steam, with those percentages developers will give it a thought , specially the ones from china. If they offer a better way of patching than steam one of the games in their catalog should be Path of Exile, POE on steam is proof on how outdated steam is.

Every bit of competition to steam is welcome, only game i play using steam is dota and not by choice. GoG already shown is a better alternative to steam.

Steam is like Queen Maeve said "a titan with feet of clay" their failure to make steam boxes catch up shows that they have been on their comfort zone too long. And they claimed steam boxes will be on every living room by 2020...

Talk about incentives.

Just updated to their new UI, and I like it. It's simple, clean, and has an obvious layout. Hybrid hierarchical + tiled layout.

I like the idea of the more revenue going to the developers. This will always help the industry. But All the peasants crying here just because they have to install a few MB software, oh the blasphemy.

@mrbojangles25 epic were copycats when the fortnite BR came out. fortnite was nowhere in the top multiplayer games list. Look at them now and where they are. Epic surely have great strategy for their new endeavour too, you don't worry about that. They are already doing it right by giving the studios and developers by giving them bigger piece of the pie. Battle.net sells their own developed games.

Why would anyone abandon their already convenient steam library, for another launcher? No, thanks. GoG tried it, didn't succeed, no one can challenge Steam, whether or not developers get a piece of the pie, the majority of players are on steam.

What does a developer prefer? 90% of one pie, or 70% of a hundred pies? Waste of time and effort in my opinion.

lol good luck with that Epic.

Maybe they should try "taking on" Origin, GoG, and anything else before Steam. Oh yeah and Battle.net. Can't forget about that behemoth.

We don't need an alternative to Steam (or GoG, or Origin, or...). No one wants an alternative to Steam (or GoG, or Origin, or...). No one asked for this.

The sooner Epic admits they just want a piece of that distribution pie because they can't sell their games (Fortnite excluded...which is free), the sooner we can ignore it.

I already have Steam, Battle.net, Origin, the Windows Store, and Uplay installed and running on my system. I don't need another !%@'ing gaming service program cluttering my PC.

Between this and all the DLC/Microtransaction crap being shoved down our throats, as well has the legitimately half-assed "AAA" big budget titles that fall face first in terms of quality, I'm really, really disliking the gaming industry.

Roll eyes. Wow, another digital distribution platform in addition to the other seventeen out there. Just what we needed.

Sounds interesting. I'm curious to which developers might take a chance and release an older/less popular game or two on the service.

Yeah yeah, Epic store? Then suddenly every games using epic engine will have DLCs in vbucks....

"No store ads or cross-marketing on a game page, and no paid ads in the search results" how is this different than Steam, GOG?

"Purchasing a game on the Epic store will automatically subscribe players to the game's newsfeed" so you can spam us every day, every hour to purchase garbage items, scamming DLCs? Nope!

"Working with streamers and bloggers". Who the f*ck cares? It always gonna be about those cringey streamers along garbage trending online games instead of a proper good game.

"88/12 split between developers and Epic". But no one says this is forever right? You can change the policy later to suck the hell out of devs.

This is completely unnecessary and pointless, the real reason this store exist is just to cash grab the consumers just like what they did with Fornite. Challenging Steam my ***!

Steam is only a thing because of Half Life 2. Valve dont make games anymore. Maybe this will be a kick in the b*** they really need at this moment.

hmmm maybe some day we will see valve make games again because of the need of exclusive games to steam, much like how netflix and amazon prime have their own movies and shows. 1 can hope.