Sweeney: Epic Games Store Freebies Help Sales Even on Other Platforms

As office of an interview with Gamespot, Epic founder and president Tim Sweeney said that the Epic Games shop 'freebies' that take been used primarily to lure gamers to the Epic Games store platform have too been a major benefaction for the sales of those games, even on other platforms, thanks to the increased visibility.

By doing a bulk deal with a game developer where we basically just pay them for the right to release their game for complimentary for 1 week on the Epic Games Store, we've been able to get an amazing array of games to gamers and encourage people to play types of games and genres that they never thought nigh playing before.

If you're not into games like Satisfactory, you're not going to get and spend coin to buy information technology, merely if y'all get it for free you realize it'southward an awesome game. People have discovered a lot of great games that way. Information technology's been a benefit for game developers. Most developers who launch their games for free on the shop found that their sales on Steam and on panel platforms actually increased later they went free on Epic considering of increased awareness and so it'south been a really positive thing and it's brought tens of millions of new users into the Ballsy Games ecosystem and that's been a wonderful thing for the company.

That'southward non unlike Xbox Game Pass or Xbox Live Gold/PlayStation Plus, where gamers would find a game that was given away for free so, later on enjoying it, they'd get purchase other titles in the same franchise for instance.

Yesterday, Epic and SEGA announced a large upcoming Ballsy Games Store freebie: A Total State of war Saga: TROY. The game will be free to grab for everyone on its release 24-hour interval, scheduled for August 13th.