Epic Games Store. An online store for thousands of video games

In this article, we will detail the features of the Store of the famous company Epic Games.

Epic Games has several famous video games. It is also the company owner and creator of the favorite Unreal Engine, the game engine used by all the company's video games and is quite famous.

Some of the famous video games Epic Games produce are Fortnite (which came out not so long ago and is one of the most downloaded games in history), the Gears of War saga, Infinity Blade, the mythical ZZT (created in 1991), among others.

As far as we can see, Epic Games is one of the biggest names in video games.

But today we will analyze the Epic Games Store. This emerges as a strong competition to Steam, which was basically monopolizing the PC videogame market.

One of the characteristics of the Epic Games Store is that it has a more excellent and neater design than its competition, Steam. Steam handles a massive stream of users and applications, but its interface is worse than Epic Games's, and navigation within Steam is worse. So a plus point goes to Epic Games in this case. You can search for games by genre, operating systems, and filters.

It should be made clear that Steam's library is still much more extensive, and the amount of games on Steam is incomparable. But Steam has been around for years and has a lot of capital to get deals with the big companies to ensure the game is in their Store.

One of the features of Steam is that developers can publish games and make a profit. Developers get 88 percent of sales, which is much more generous than Steam. If you are a developer using the Unreal Engine (created by them), Epic Games only keeps 5%, and you can access all the programs for free. Like Steam, this is an option that significantly empowers potential indie game creators because it gives the content creator an audience and a platform where the audience gets access quickly. The buyer is given a secure framework in which to pay and know what is being accessed. The buyer can be sure they are accessing the game in question, and the seller and creator of the game get a potential audience.

People can buy everywhere else with debit cards, credit cards, and PayPal. This makes it so you can access games the way you want. One negative thing about Epic Games Store is that you can't give away games or gift cards with a balance, so it's not an option to gift video games to that family member or friend.

Epic Games has a refund policy similar to Steam. Any game played for less than 2 hours can be returned, getting your money back. The money will be refunded to you within 14 days.

One of the exciting propositions of Epic Games Store is that throughout 2020, in which people spend a lot more time than usual inside their homes (due to the pandemic), Epic is releasing a free game every week. To get more audience, this promotion provides users with many free games. In addition, it offers various discounts on major games.

An essential point of game stores is the price. And in that, we can say that the prices are regular and average. In that, they compete directly with Steam. Neither cheaper nor more expensive. Another thing is that Epic Games provides support and prices in local currency in more than 230 countries, which is convenient for users who don't have to pay in foreign currency. In short, Epic Games seems neither more expensive nor cheaper.

Conclusion:

Epic Games Store comes to shake the empire of Steam. Let's hope it succeeds so that competition is generated and we, the users, can access better prices and more discounts.

Epic Games has things to improve, but it is in constant development. And because of the success of Fortnite, it also has the capital. We will see what happens in the next few years.