Tim Sweeney remains optimistic and predicts that EGS will surpass Steam in time

Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, has acknowledged that the Epic Games Store launcher has improved in certain aspects, but it remains slow and complicated to use.

During a recent interview, Sweeney admitted that the quality of life of the launcher has not been sufficiently prioritized, which translates into an unsatisfactory user experience.

The store received a low score of 41% compared to other launchers like Steam, placing Epic Games Store well below its strongest competitor.

Users face issues that vary depending on their internet connection and proximity to a CDN (content delivery network), which can make loading game libraries on Epic frustrating.

Despite these inconveniences, Sweeney remains optimistic and predicts that, over time, his strategy will better connect players across different platforms, thus surpassing Steam in the long run.

In his statements, Sweeney emphasized that the benefits of Epic’s approach will offer advantages that will eventually overshadow Steam’s approach, especially in an increasingly cross-platform gaming environment.

Sweeney also criticized a group of Steam users for their harassment campaigns against developers who have chosen to use Epic Online Services.

For example, the game Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 faced negative criticism on Steam due to the inclusion of Epic Online Services to facilitate cross-play and synchronized friend lists.

Criticism of the clumsiness of the Epic launcher is common, and while Sweeney seeks to improve the situation, some users have been exploring alternatives like GOG Galaxy or Heroic, which promise a smoother experience.

However, the question remains: will Epic Games be able to surpass its rival? Only time will tell.

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You know when you keep saying the same things but then the years go by and you have nothing to show for it, it’s a bit of a stretch to still call Steam your rival. I think EGS should first try to compete with GOG and other stores on their level first.

Steamtroons are mentally ill

All Timmy needs is outsurvive the fat man. Steam will collapse once the pig is gone.

Epicucks can't stop embarrasing xirselves

The store received a low score of 41% compared to other launchers like Steam, placing Epic Games Store well below its strongest competitor.

Who ranks these things? I don't disagree I just want to see it

Gabe always wins in the end

i tried using EGS to install unreal engine and it was the slowest most unresponsive piece of shit i ever had the displeasure of using.

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For example, the game Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 faced negative criticism on Steam due to the inclusion of Epic Online Services to facilitate cross-play and synchronized friend lists.

Criticism of the clumsiness of the Epic launcher is common, and while Sweeney seeks to improve the situation, some users have been exploring alternatives like GOG Galaxy or Heroic, which promise a smoother experience.

Is this fucker seriously trying to claim a problem he caused is a problem with Steam?

Bit by bit, Epic will win cause valve are lazy

The full line goes like:

Sweeney also criticized a group of Steam users for their harassment campaigns against developers who have chosen to use Epic Online Services. For example, the game Warhammer 40,000...

So the answer is yes.

Stop bitching at developers choosing to use my easy-online multiplayer option over my competitor's!!!

Where's the comparison Pic between them?

Tim Sweeney remains optimistic and predicts that EGS will surpass Steam in time

Yes yes Timmy 2 more weeks this time for sure and monopoly will be defeated

Doesn't exist because Steam doesn't report the same values.
They report daily/monthly user counts (which means only active accounts are shown rather than inactives/old bot accounts, which Epic loves showcasing).

Steam had 132M MAU back in 2021. Analysts now predict Steam to have 190-200M MAU.

almost double the amount of PC Epic accounts since 2020

amount of money spent on third party shit in 2024 was below 2020

he will stop giving out free games long before that even happens, from Tim there is no winning

LOL, Europeans and Canadians are switching to GOG because of Trump and this retard thinks Epic will survive in the long run? ELBOWS UP!!!!

There's lots of little tweaks and cheats they use, both visible and not.
For example, their Tiktok account is botted to hell and back.
In 2022, they switches from "Total PC customers" to "Total PC users" so they could count users who had never spent any money.
Then there's the fact their Facebook group hasn't grown at all in 3 years.
Etc.

store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/better-deals-in-fortnite-and-more-players-get-20-back-in-epic-rewards-starting-today

EPIC WON

Starting today, when you make a purchase

And I stopped caring.

For example, their Tiktok account is botted to hell and back.

Another example, steam

Steam doesn't have an official Tiktok.

platform that literally plateaued in 2021

surpassing Steam

It will eventually surpass Steam in user count because it's multi-platform, after recent successful lawsuit against Apple there is nothing stopping them from rolling out full-fledged storefront on the mobile market.
Buying all popular E-rated MP games like Rocket League or Fall Guys and removing them from Steam is another good strategy to make EGS the main game store for kids. Adult players already shoved too much money to Steam and won't move, but kids will flock to the store with popular MP games their friends play and eventually buy games from there. In long-term Timmy wins.

It'll never happen. Timmy is just too autistic to succeed here.

No i mean steam is botted to hell

And so is Epic, so that's an irrelevant metric.

A future where Steam makes their own PCs entirely and Epic becomes the de facto mobile/console giant

I'd be totally fine with this future.

There is no reason to bot on epic, meanwhile bots on steam actually make money

They bot accounts to claim the free games and then sell them.

Account flippers exist, lad.

Why is this so hard to understand for /vtards?

Shit like REPO, Schedule I, Lethal Company, and althe other gen alpha games aren't on EGS bro.

And Roblox completely eclipses Fortnite for the shit GenAlpha like and it's a known trend now that kids who make games on Roblox graduate to Steam. Also Fall Guys already gor completely cucked by Stumble Guys.

You guys are right that Epic can't compete with Steam, but you should upset about that, not cheering for it. But you're all retarded, so it's hopeless I guess.

Epic can't compete

but you should upset about that

HOW THE FUCK IS THAT MY PROBLEM? TIM SWEENEY NEVER LEARNS YOU FUCKTARD

akchually it is your fault that shitty store is still shitty

kys timmycuckold

hurr I only care about myself not about the direction the world goes in

Most delusional faggot in the industry?

not an argument retard

he's right, but because everything decays and goes to shit eventually, not because Epic will suddenly become good

I'm upset that they seem to be unable to learn from past mistakes and are slow to make meaningful improvements.

that was an argument, though
it was me mocking you for only caring about what affects you directly
but you're too retarded so it's hopeless

Tim sweeney is not willing to improve his own store, how is this my problem

WHAAAAAAAT SAAAR WHY DON'T YOU CARE ABOUT THE DIRECTION THE WORLD GOES IN?

Most coherent pajeet defenders train of thought

Why is this a softonic article on archive.today? Looks like some bullshit article that someone made trying to pass it off as real

Is this fucker seriously trying to claim a problem he caused is a problem with Steam?

No. That's not what was said. Learn to read.

about the direction the world goes in

what the fuck did he even mean by that, I sweat it is always the same shit with ESL fags

lmao

sweat

ok Pablo

minor spelling mistake

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>Sweeney also criticized a group of Steam users for their harassment campaigns against developers who have chosen to use Epic Online Services.

Based. The harassers, that is.

Only something catastrophic like Valve going public would cause people to actually migrate, and even then the majority would stay.

Real. Fortnite updates take like 50 minutes to install on fiber connection.

I don't think Epic can reach the autism the slavs have regarding the old games and making them run. Maybe when p0lacks get finally americanised and die off

spend half a decade saying a shopping cart and gift cards was not feasibly possible

remains slow and complicated to use

You're retarded for thinking the store not having Steam's useless features is why people aren't moving to it. No, it's matter of market already having decided on where they are and they have no reason to leave. Like someone said that will change slowly over time because children are familiar with EGS but it doesn't happen overnight and is a very uphill climb.

something something far cry 3 villain meme quote

The (((world))) can, and will, burn. Not my problem.

didn't understand what direction of world means

:(

Is Tim the most retarded person involved in the industry?

You're retarded for thinking the store not having Steam's useless features is why people aren't moving to it. No, it's matter of market already having decided on where they are and they have no reason to leave. Like someone said that will change slowly over time because children are familiar with EGS but it doesn't happen overnight and is a very uphill climb.

Nah he is just embarrassing and pathetic
Imagine getting confused for some random jannitor

No that would be Gabe

You're always in these threads mad about it though. How many years has it been now? Tim lives in your head. I'm here cause I'm not a gaben cocksucker. I don't really give a shit about Steam or Epic, and you'd never see me sperging for either side unlike thyself

Like someone said that will change slowly over time because children are familiar with EGS but it doesn't happen overnight and is a very uphill climb.

This is retarded logic. Because by this reasoning the children will follow the wave and be on Steam instead.

Is that the guy that was at one of our rehearsals?

Humiliation ritual

As a CEO? Probably. He did fuckall to deserve any success, be it his rancid, hardware shilling engine or the product placement PUBG clone for pedophiles. In general? Far from it.

EGS was meant to create a publisher price cartel, but now that games are 80 dollars anyway EGS has no purpose.

What wave? Children don't have a built-up library and really they don't play anything but Fortnite, Hot Wheels, phone shit, all the free games they get, etc.

I don't have a EpicGayShit account even just for the free games, that's how much I hate this fucking bastard

most of eceleb bait games cannot be found on Epic games but on Steam, just really letting everyone know how little you understand about dumb little kids nowadays

KEK, must suck for you

This is the most schizo retard europost I've seen yet

Bro. Roblox and Minecraft are not on Epic.

And even then we know that Fortnite is a predominantly console game.

eceleb bait games

they watch those games being played, they don't go and play them themselves. or they might but they bounce back to old faithful 2 days layer. Fortnite is fucking crack cocaine to them

"sure im sad he stole my bike but its ok because the overall happiness went up."

I'll hire you to work for me and pay you poorly.

those steamcharts don't lie though, someone is buying the livestream slop and it's not just the streamers

I wouldn't say that. Unreal Engine did honestly earn its reputation to get to where it is now but everything else that they done since stinks to high heaven.

Fuck this wicked and retarded world

Why? I have 382 games on Steam and still 30 or so in my backlog. If I want a game, I just buy it and don't wait for it to become free on some chinese spyware store.
Back in the day I pirated almost all of my games, now I earn enough to be able to afford any game I want.

That's like saying seesaws and action figures aren't on Steam. What's your point?

Fortnite is predominantly a console game

It's predominantly a last-gen console game*
No one wants the PS5 or XOBOX. Consoles are getting wrecked harder than ever, you're acting like kids who don't have computers aren't gonna get them or phones real quick

i'd say john riccitiello has him beat, tim at least was actually involved in game development at one point and hasn't done anything to destroy customer goodwill quite on that guy's level

can you sell hentai games on EGS?
I can't support gay mafia. they are my enemy

When Randy exists?

At this point I'm convinced that Mark Rein (Epic's vice president) was the actual brains behind Epic's success, and it all happened despite Tim being his boss. He probably just finally got tired of tard wrangling him sometime around 2019.

Yes but you're acting like Fortnite kids are this massive force that while lift up the EGS. When in reality their storefront agnosticism will just as easily lead them to Steam where all the big games and meme games that aren't just Fortnite are coming out.

Why? I have 382 games on Steam

stopped reading there

nearly 2x growth in just 4 years

This is insane

Anon they went from calling it PC Customers, to PC Users.

im no marketing expert, but

see still a fortnite launcher

their storefront agnosticism

Yea exactly, as opposed to now where people have built-up libraries and refuse to move or have two stores. Kids will not give a shit and use multiple stores. EGS will keep growing even at a steady slow pace. It has the money to keep doing that

And so will Steam at an even faster pace. Because guess what. Steam has continued to penetrate deep into the Asian market and the kids there don't give a fuck about Fortnite.

force EOS on steam games for crossplay

people don't like it because it's another login and they aren't playing crossplay with EGS anyways

start doing it in the background instead

people don't notice, all is well

decide to do it loudly and openly again and piss people off

i swear we've done this cycle at least twice

Why has all the free games been pure shovelware lately?

um I already have the good Epic games

Well I don't. Give us more repeats.

Only bots and chinks use steam

There budget for free games goes down each year so the quality has dipped.

None of that shit matters if a mega game comes out and is Epic exclusive. Epic has the money to buy that shit out and sway the pendulum the other way. Basically the store is not going away even if it only grows 1% yoy because Epic is swimming in money and Timmy lives in his ideals. It's not much different from the Xbox situation, Xbox will not beat Playstation ever again but that doesn't mean Xbox is going away ever. Retards will continue to cross their fingers though

e-epic will one day s-surpass steam

pls trust the plan

kwab

None of that shit matters if a mega game comes out and is Epic exclusive.

That already happened, repeatedly. They failed every single time.

Been hearing about how these gorillions of Fortnite kids will grow up and become EGS customers for nearly 7 fucking years. Well little Johnny who was 13 when he started playing Fortnite is now a grown ass man.

Oh so now we're predicating on the possibility of a mega game being EGS exclusive. This is just retarded now. Steam has a bigger chance to get the mega games and they fucking have gotten games that completely eclipse the revenue Epic made on EGS for a year.

Epic got fucking Valorant and Mihomo's games on their store and it did fuckall.

Because those kids are on consoles so why would they give a fuck about a PC store

Hardly retarded. They're the ones most likely to make big plays like that. They already make deals with 3rd parties on a weekly basis

And what if Steam gets it?

a mega game comes out and is Epic exclusive.

When was the last time a mega game has been Epic exclusive? Borderlands 3 was six years ago and it was only exclusive for six months.

people say Steam is much more popular

look at steam charts

all top played games are just botted f2p games that chink plays

barely any other game is played

hmmm

Epic already has several mega games that are pseudo exclusive to their store (aka not on Steam) like Valorant and Hoyoslop and those haven't moved the needle. The only game that would potentially move the needle is GTA 6.

The only game that would potentially move the needle is GTA 6.

that one I doubt he would be able to afford unless he'd sell his soul straight to Satan or something

I would love to see GTA 6 on Epic just to see the complete meltdown of Steam drones

They could barely keep RDR2 exclusive for a month.

Rockstar is going to launch it on their own launcher first.

The only game that would potentially move the needle is GTA 6.

That they could only afford a month's exclusivity just like RDR2.

I would love GTA 6 flopping too, please make it happen.

Yeah just like how Fortnite is dying in two more weeks.

Just like how FF7 Remake flopped.

Not going to downgrade my OS for a storefront. More users run Steam for Linux than use EGS. Just release a Flatpak already Tim.

YOU DONT GET IT BRO THE KIDS

It's been 6 years now. Where are the kids.

fortnite fell of fucking hard though, it's not going back to it's prime anytime soon

steam can add cross platform play and has done so on occasion, it's literally a developer choice
games that use epic online dogshit deserve the criticism they get because it requires you to hand your data over to timmy and create a fucking account
nobody wants to do that, get this through your heads you clowns
they use steam because they want to use NO OTHER LOGINS OR ACCOUNTS EVER
epic online shit is no better than ubisofts dogshit launcher still being required when launching through steam
eat shit, if you use that i will simply not play your games at all, i'm not making more accounts

it requires you to hand your data

Good thing steam doesn't have my data right!!!

5 times more people have bought a Steam Deck than play Fornite on all platforms.
Have to wonder if Fortnite's fall-off has to do with refusal to support players on the devices they want to use.

Anyone got that webm showing how EGS checks all you disks for existing Steam installation shown on ProcMon? I can't find it

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Can I get this picture in a proper resolution instead of a resize for mobile bugmen?

He gave up on this years ago, they don't even pay for high level exclusives anymore. The entire appeal was to publishers and they don't court publishers anymore.

He's quite capable if it's about coding. He pretty much wrote the entire first UE version by himself in his garage and he kept working on it until UE3 as coder from what I remember.
He just sucks at everything else. He's like a high INT low WIS wizard.

NO! You don't understand! the MEGA game will save the store:

do you know what an archive site does?
are you retarded?

They moved to game publishing for high end exclusives
They stopped paying for third parties since the majority of them were a financial black hole.

it's a known trend now that kids who make games on Roblox graduate to Steam[citation needed]

They graduate to what exactly? Gmod? lmao
Fortnite has creator mode as well and more players than anything on Steam.

Lethal Company was made by a dev who initially started his career on Roblox as a kid.

Most people will just wait a year and the developer will use the money from the people that cant wait to release the real, definitive edition on Steam. This has happened multiple times and is part of, if not the whole, reason that Epic stopped doing it. Devs were using them to get free money and not actually trying to seriously promote their games on Epic

wow, imagine coming in lower than xbox store
tim should be embarrassed

Steam deck sold around 3m

Fortnite had a 15m player count AT THE SAME TIME

Do you math?

When was the last time Steam got any exclusive? All the major SP games are on EGS too. The only reason why some big MP games are Steam-only is because releasing them on different stores isn't simple like with SP games where you just upload the game data to the store server and you're done, you have to maintain the game cross-play and deal with additional store API.

Steam deck sold around 3m

As of 2023. It is 2025 now. Deck is at 6-8 million. Updated custom SOCs don't get fabbed for systems not selling millions a year.

Fortnite had a 15m player count

Had, past-tense. Now it is just 1.3 million. Less than the Nokia N-Gage.

Today. The overwhelming majority of modern PC games are not on EGS as putting them there only costs studios and publishers for zero sales.

Every Capcom game?
Every Fromsoft release?

Wukong might as well be exclusive since it sold fuckall on Epic. Same with Hogwarts.

Seiously these shill threads can go fuck off
Nobody normal would post a shit article like this in their own interest
Nobody care who the fuck said his shill thing
These aren't videogames even though they're related
Timmy doesn't do videogames

oH ShiLL GuY sAiD THinG! - fucktard

Deck is at 6-8 million

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Wukong might as well be exclusive since it sold fuckall on Epic.

That's not Valve's fault that the market overwhelmingly prefers Steam. What's funny is Alan Wake 2 outsold Wukong on EGS. I read somewhere Wukong sold like 20 million copies on Steam and about 100k on Epic.

When was the last time Steam got any exclusive?

Ideally fucking never.
Exclusivity is a retarded consolefag tribal screech. Nothing should be exclusive just for the sake of being exclusive, but its understandable if devs don't want to port cross-system, which typically isn't a concern when it comes to PC (unless we're talking about linux compatability, which swiney fucking hates anyway like the retard he is)

cross platform

kept alive by snoys lmao

Tim Sweeney is Snoys personal bitch and we all knew that a long time ago

Which is funny because they keep imposing shit on him like no favored nation on vbucks and paying for "lost revenue" for crossplay.

Does a lot

wins

Show your source for the Deck selling 0 units since 2023. Your number assumes the introduction of the OLED model and ramp up of increased volume from the LCD line happened despite Valve not selling a single unit.
Over 5% of paying customers on Steam run Linux exclusively. EGS has less users than use Steam on MacOS.

does a lot

gets sued and pays for his deceptive and predatory practices targeting children

How much does Sweeney pay indies for their games? It's a death sentence for sales so it must be pretty high

He doesn't pay for them anymore unless Epic publishes it.

I asked first, show numbers for those figures you claimed.

Since day one the issue people had with his bs was its unresponsiveness, lack of features and clunkiness. How many years it was? Hey hey Tim has a better plan. Why fix things people complain about when you can try to steer the public top-to-botton by getting the devs on your platform - well that failed(at large it seems that unless Epic pays upfront more than any reasonable sales projections indicated the devs won't come, even then it's timed exclusivity only), I guess we'll just base our appeal at having actually good games instead of half-finished early access scams. Well but you know what these web3/crypto guys sound like lotsa money, let's let them in.
GTA won't be on Epic and it won't flop even if it was. Rockstar most likely will do timed console exclusivity followed by PC released. They did it with GTAIV, V and RDR2(at this point also RDR but that was intended to be console exclusive). They'll get their moneys worth from people double-triple dipping into it so they don't care if PC sales will be slightly lower until 1 year exclusivity on ebin ends or not.

ITT people that never used Epic Stores complain about how clunky it is

That would require people to actually use the store

As I explained. 3 million assumes 0 sales since 2023 which is when the "Multiple millions" confirmation happened. 2 million leaked out in a KDE developer conference earlier that year.
At that time the LCD production line was not fully up to speed and was producing 40k to 50k units a week.

Even just continuing the volume of production to hit 3 million in 2023, Valve would have hit 5 million by the end of 2024, and 5.5 million in Q1 2025.
Your numbers assume Valve has sold zero units since 2023 despite launching a second production line for the OLED, and continuing the LCD model production line.

You can look at the Steam Survey data and do a bit of math to back up everything I'm saying. Twice as many users exclusively run Linux in the survey data than use a Mac.
Just ask yourself how big an order you need to place for AMD to design and fab a custom chip. Valve's got 2 (3 now counting Aerith+).

Tim Sweeney never used ebin?

everyone wants full cross play

EGS offers the easiest implementation

everyone cries

I think Sweeney is a fag but it's just that simple

When was the last time Steam got any exclusive?

Sekiro? Elden Ring? BG3? Balatro? Monhun? Resident Evil?

Who knew Tim posted on Anon Babble?

Remember when Hades released exclusively on EGS for like six months and sold like 30K copies? Then went to Steam and sold millions? lol

satisfactory as well.

Satisfactory actually did well on EGS
In fact it was one of three exclusives in 2019 that actually made it's money back for Epic.