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Gaming => Game News Discussion => Topic started by: the-pi-guy on Jan 15, 2020, 07:16 PM

Title: Epic Games Store tops $680 million in player spending and over 100 million users (free games promotion will continue through 2020)
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 15, 2020, 07:16 PM
Epic Games Store tops $680 million in player spending and over 100 million users (free games promotion will continue through 2020) | ResetEra (https://www.resetera.com/threads/epic-games-store-tops-680-million-in-player-spending-and-over-100-million-users-free-games-promotion-will-continue-through-2020.164685/)

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Epic Games today offered an update on the growth of the Epic Games Store. Launched in December of 2018, the store to-date has racked up $680 million in spending from 108 million PC customers.
 While much of that total can be accounted for by Epic's own hit Fortnite, the company noted that $251 million has been spent by players on third-party PC games

 One of Epic Games Store's biggest selling points for customers has been its distribution of free games. When the Epic Games Store launched, Epic founder and CEO Tim Sweeney promised it would offer one free game every two weeks throughout 2019. It actually surpassed that mark, so far providing 73 free games to players that have been downloaded more than 200 million times put together.

The program has been successful enough that Epic also announced today it will be offering weekly free games throughout 2020.  Click to expand... Click to shrink...  
(https://images.eurogamer.net/2020/articles/2020-01-13-18-57/epicgamesstore.jpg)    Epic Games Store tops $680 million in player spending  (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-01-14-epic-games-store-tops-usd680-million-in-player-spending)  Storefront touts 108 million PC customers a little over a year after launch, extends weekly free game promotion through 2020   (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/favicon.ico) www.gamesindustry.biz    
  
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Title: Re: Epic Games Store tops $680 million in player spending and over 100 million users (free games promotion will continue through 2020)
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 15, 2020, 07:18 PM
A lot better than forecasted to do.  

But it's still feels really low to me.  

Average user spent something like $2.50 last year. Although a lot of users were mainly fortnite players.  And it's hard to say how often those users were on.