Steam is largely driven by Valve’s own games and freebies as well. 1.5M currently playing Dota 2 and CS 2, with the next best being F2P games: PUBG with 370K online, Apex Legends, and Naraka.
Does Epic have any market share past free games and fortnight?
Rose@lemmy.world 6 months ago
ABCDE@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Rocket League and Fall Guys are also on there. Not sure how much paid games sell there though.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Developers. UE5 is chalking up to be the defacto standard for modern titles that don’t have budgets large enough to make their own engine.
EGS, on the other hand, is still an abysmal failure beyond the lure of free (and increasingly shittier) games and a yearly 25% off discount coupon that people fall for.
ICastFist@programming.dev 6 months ago
I really wish they’d start by not making the EGS program a fucking UE5 app. Seriously, using the whole ass engine to render html is stupid beyond belief
pivot_root@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wait, is it seriously a full-blown UE5 application?
DdCno1@kbin.social 6 months ago
I was going to call shenanigans, but then I looked at the details of the application:
https://i.imgur.com/J30SGAr.png
So it seems there is something to it.
steakmeoutt@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Why is it stupid exactly? UE5 scales very well and places very little demand on hardware for simple tasks.
ICastFist@programming.dev 6 months ago
Ever heard the saying “Everything looks like a nail when you have a hammer”? Basically, just because you have a tool, it doesn’t mean it’s the best tool for every job. UE5 is great for making games, cinematics and loads of other stuff. But why use it to effectively behave as a browser like Chrome or Firefox, but worse, when there are alternatives made specifically for that?
Gabu@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nope. Godot, a fully free Unity-like Engine is shaping up to be the defacto standard for good games (AAA garbage is being ignored purposefully)
pivot_root@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I know Godot exists, and it’s preferable to supporting Epic, but it isn’t up to feature parity with UE5. Particularly, when it comes to asset streaming and open world games, Unreal has better support out of the box.
I would love for Godot to be the standard and first choice for every developer (including AAA), though.
UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 5 months ago
“ignoring the major players in the industry”
UE5 had turned into the standard whether you like it or not. I personally don’t like the engine, but that doesn’t mean I’ll lie about its position in the market, and neither should you. You aren’t doing Godot any favours with it
Gabu@lemmy.world 5 months ago
When said “major players” only pump out trash that’s not fun to play, yes, I will ignore them gladly. The last AAA game I bought was Fallen Order, which I promply refunded after finishing, since it was more of a walking and climbing simulator than anything else – and that was one of the better AAA games to come out in the past decade.
Indie devs and studios are the ones actually carrying the industry forwards.