《无主之地3》尝到甜头，Epic计划今后推出更多独占大作

Epic表示玩家可以期待在未来看到更多的Epic Games Store独家产品。Epic表示，虽然宣布独占游戏的数量可能放缓，但这仍然是公司吸引用户加入Epic战略的一部分。

Epic首席执行官蒂姆·斯威尼在接受媒体PC Gamer采访时说：“在之前发布的独占游戏中分为‘非常有效’和‘不太有效’，我们在根据表现来完善我们的策略。”“一些独占大作游戏确实起到了推动作用，而其他一些体量较小的游戏，尤其是那些通常在Steam上也没多少玩家的游戏，我们发现其中很多的玩家都不愿意转移平台。”

截止目前，Epic发布过的最大型独占游戏之一是《无主之地3》，据Epic市场经理Steve Allison说，在独占期间它完全“打破”了预期。

Epic本周发布了年度报告称，截至去年，用户已超过2.3亿，比2021年增加了3600万。全年Epic商店新增626款PC游戏，总数达到1548款。玩家在第三方游戏上的支出为3.55亿美元，同比增长18%，尽管所有游戏的总支出下降2%至8.2亿美元。

Epic Games is trying to take away the dominance of digital stores on computers from Valve: to do so, it promotes its own Epic Games Store with various exclusives temporal. Games like The Division 2, Metro Exodus and Borderlands 3 arrived on the Epic Games Store before Steam. Epic Games CEO – Tim Sweeney – says the company will continue to use these strategies. The CEO also explained: “We are refining our strategy based on what we have observed working very well in previous launches and what hasn’t worked very well. A handful of major exclusives really tipped the balance… while for smaller games, especially those that had smaller audiences and were usually on Steam, we found that many of those players weren’t willing to move [su Epic Games Store]”. Basically, for i AAA players are willing to buy games on the Epic Games Store, but in the case of indies, many enthusiasts agree to wait for it to arrive on Steam. Looking ahead, we know that Alan Wake 2 is on the way, the team of which was funded by Epic Games. Epic Games will also publish games by Playdead (authors of Limbo) and genDesign (The Last Guardian). Both will be exclusive “for a long time”. PC Building Simulator 2 will also be exclusive to the Epic Games Store, obviously together with the new game from Mediatonic (authors of Fall Guys, owned by Epic Games). There will also be a game from a “small studio” to be unveiled at GDC March 2023. In the end, Steve Allison – Epic Games Store GM – pointed out that some publishers do not need to agree to a deal with Epic to get them to publish their games on the Epic Games Store. Allison pointed out that Rockstar Games made Red Dead Redemption II available on the Epic Games Store a couple of weeks before Steam because Epic’s store pays developers a higher share of revenue than Steam. Crime Boss: Rockay City will also be exclusive to the Epic Games Store: that’s for how long.