On January 29, it was reported that the game platform Epic recently released their 2020 annual summary.

The official summary mentioned that in 2020, the number of Epic platform players exceeded 160 million, an increase of 48% compared with 2019, of which the number of monthly active users reached 56 million and the number of daily active users reached 31.3 million.

However, the increase in the number of users has not brought about a corresponding increase in Epic's revenue. Official data say that the total consumption of third-party games on Epic by players in 2020 will be 265 million dollars, an increase of only 5.5% compared with 251 million dollars in 2019.

This data can be said to be too real. It is obvious that most new players do not have much extra consumption on the platform, because they may only come to "pay for" Epic's free games. According to official data, in 2020, Epic sent 103 free games (the total number of games in the mall is only 471), which cost a total of 2407 dollars to buy at the original price, and 749 million free games were received by players.

However, we have to admit that it is because of the continuous free games and large discounts that Epic was able to break the dominance of Steam in two years and successfully expand in the field of PC game distribution.

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