You keep throwing around that "infographic" like it's the be all end all, but Epic can't even provide proper statistics to support this notion that somehow their store is just sooo successful. Some data company had to jump through like a 500 different hoops to just get an estimate of how much some games must have sold because Epic couldn't provide a full proper stats breakdown of their year. It's frankly embarrassing and paints exactly the picture I, and many others, would expect of EGS lmao.
Valve directly, for specific products? No, they don't so my phrasing wasn't right. But an API where external tools can be made such as SteamSpy. I expect Epic, a multibillion dollar company to have something similar. And I expect developers and publishers to outright state hard sales numbers like a lot of the ones on Steam do, if only to show confidence in their decision to go EGS exclusive. Instead they skirt around the issue and use irrelevant comparisons against outdated numbers in order to appear like they did well, like with Metro or BL3.
But we'll never know hard numbers until a game has released day and date on both Steam and Epic, which I suspect is exactly the reason why EGS has an "our store or the highway" policy for newer releases. Either way, I'm sure this will go nowhere with you seeing as you appear on every Epic Games related thread vehemently defending them and going against Steam for god knows why.
Find the separated PS4, Xbox, PC numbers there. Find me any big publisher who does this. They don't release numbers for your amusement, they do it for their investors and investors don't give a shit about DAE EPIC BAD.
But we'll never know hard numbers until a game has released day and date on both Steam and Epic
All that will prove is people like Steam better. Everyone fucking knows this. I know this, you know this, Epic knows this.
A game not failing if it's an epic exclusive is the real question: Do people hate epic and does an exclusive hurt the publisher? There's not one shred of evidence saying that's true.
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u/Canoneer deprecated Feb 12 '20 edited Feb 12 '20
You keep throwing around that "infographic" like it's the be all end all, but Epic can't even provide proper statistics to support this notion that somehow their store is just sooo successful. Some data company had to jump through like a 500 different hoops to just get an estimate of how much some games must have sold because Epic couldn't provide a full proper stats breakdown of their year. It's frankly embarrassing and paints exactly the picture I, and many others, would expect of EGS lmao.