Epic games going to support game store, users/ gamer will now be able to purchase new and different games via their platform, what does this mean for steam?
Hi guys and welcome to another beautiful and lovely day, time to improve on our yesterday and make today a little bit more better than yesterday after all,
The little extra is what makes the extra-ordinary.
Was surfing online earlier today, found something quite interesting and I must say, it’s going to change gaming purchase for good or probably not, well do leave your thoughts down.
If you a PC gamer you probably aware of steam, not Steem lol yea both looks same and am pretty sure they sound same as well, but then English not my native language so the pronunciation might differ or not.
If you familiar with the steam platform, then you probably know it’s one of the or even the highest game selling platform currently available, but if you not aware then lets break it down a little for you.
Steam is like android playstore if you use an android device, but then its available for PC and what they sell or offer are PC games, selling might not be that good of a word, cause most times you do download free to play games there like DOTA 2, Paladins champions of the realm and others, if you considering the definition as sales, been exchange of goods then I would say, steam offers game services, were you get games either for free or by purchasing them, if they are paid to play games.
That out of the way, you probably now aware that the word steam and steem are two separates platforms, one offering games and the other acting as a blockchain.
Well, our major focus today is not about steam or the definition but rather having a new competitor, you might even call it rival but then there should be somewhat of closeness between them, although that might happen in the future but as at now, let’s stick with term Competitor.
Epic games becoming or adding game store to their platform
Well if you not familiar with epic games then definitely you must have heard about the game Fortnite, be it from a friend, family or loved ones or even you might have engaged in one or two games.
Fortnite one of the most popular battle royale game as at the time of making this post, after been released in 2017, it soon gain grounds in terms of gaming and was even compared with PUBG player unknown battle ground, many made rumors about it taking its concept or ideas from PUBG and many others disagreed with this claim, but then we have so many games currently available, where the developers must have gotten their ideas from pre-existing games.
In other for it to be compared with the likes of PUBG, you have to understand how much fame and users it must have generated then, the game made emotes more familiar than it currently was, and ingame movements could be observes which involves dance mode and others, dance modes could be used as a form of troll against other players, or simply a victory dance after getting a kill or winning the game.
It soon became popular with that and with time was recognized and ever heard it was going big into the esports platform, still have many and more features to come, recently new modes were added to the game and it seems the developers are not yet ready to draw the curtain down and say they have done all they could for the game.
With that been said, the game keeps finding ways to make their users comfortable and keep their passion for the game burning.
Epic games already gained the users, viewer’s counts from the game Fortnite and adding another feature to their platform surely going to stand out in terms of usability from others.
After all,
Marketing is all about how you can capture the attention of others to showcase your goods.
With the huge success Fortnite brought, the marketing seems to have been a done deal.
Epic games going to add or support game purchases from their platform, just like what steam currently offers, they are going to offer same or something better, users or gamers will now be able to make purchases of other games via their platform, the game won’t be limited to a single game genre but they plan on increasing it across all genres which includes, action, adventure, first person shooter and others.
They plan on making game more fun and cheap and how do they plan on doing so you might ask,
As a game developer, for your game to be place or shown alongside other games via app stores like steam, google play store and others, certain amount is been paid to the sellers for every game they sell, say 20% above and it seems steam charges 20 to 30% which I consider kind of high, if you a game developer you might as well, and most times increase your game price to get a good return after every purchase.
It seems epic gamers going to charge 12% for each game been sold via their platform making it somewhat of a gold mine to developers, at first there might be the issue of trust and if gamers would probably make purchases via epic games platform due to steam been trusting after offering years of good services.
But with time it might as well change and they might increase on their services rendering, from what we can tell so far after looking into Fortnite, it seems these guys mean business when it comes to offering of services and they usually go the extra miles to make and keep their users entice, should be expecting something great from these guys.
Meanwhile, what do you think of the steps epic gamers are taking as it relates to them selling games via their platform, do you think it would affect the productivity of fortnite and other games developed by them or you see it as a good move.
Do leave your comments behind.
Till some other time do have fun and stay bless.
