Epic games withdraws its steam games

Video games in digital format have become the absolute standard on PC and more and more companies are looking to take advantage of this juicy market that moves billions of dollars every year. Steam is the quintessential platform queen, but the competition is tightening more and more, and Epic Games is the latest to join the fashion.

Epic Games begins to withdraw its games from Steam

Epic Games is moving its entire collection of games sold digitally, from Steam to its new store + DRM platform that competes with the Valve, Origin and UPlay platform. The new Epic Games Store plans to not only sell games published by Epic, but also other third-party publishers, to whom Epic is promising an 88% revenue share, maintaining a slim margin of 12% for DRM delivery, unlimited downloads. and update patches.

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For comparison, Steam is left with a 30% margin compared to 12% from the Epic store. Additionally, Epic offers additional incentives to third-party game studios that use Unreal Engine. Epic Games titles are being withdrawn from the Steam store as a move to give more prominence to their own game store. The move does not affect people who already own Epic titles on Steam, as future reinstalls and patch updates will continue from the Valve platform.

It is clear that Epic Games is very serious about its new digital games store, it will have to be seen if the greater profit margin is enough to convince developers to publish their games in the new digital store. What do you expect from the Epic Games digital store?

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