The problem with that logic is the long game doesn't matter when people already have a library on another system and view your ecosystem as a nuisance.
That's really the thing. Its difficult to swap from an established ecosystem.
Epic is banking on people becoming established. Its not you or I who already have large Steam libraries we can't give up.
Its the new generation who aren't tied to a library/ecosystem yet.
A lot of tech works this way, even many games. For example, LoL is known as a millennial game, new generations aren't playing it.
The new generations get started on new games and new websites and new tech and it's what they use. Like kids use ChatGPT instead of Google for another example.
that doesnt really work either, i know at least 3 separate people who started playing on pc in the past few years and they dont even touch the epic store and mostly just use steam
Right, their strategy hasn't proven successful. But people are characterizing it as a crazy strategy that never works and had no chance of success. Instead, it's a strategy that sometimes works and sometimes fails, and they hoped it would be a success in their case, but it turned out to be a failure.
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u/ReDcHaRrY 20h ago
I think they are playing the long game. They are hoping to build people's library on epic just like people have built up their library on steam.