That is in fact one of the biggest reasons that Epic Games can now write a huge number of accounts to their name.
Okay, Epic Games shouldn’t really be underestimated in terms of size in the gaming industry. But we didn’t see it coming so fast with the American company. Epic Games says there are officially 500 million registered accounts for their platform. The company behind Fortnite, among other things, does that well.
Epic Games accounts
Obviously, it makes sense that popular games like Fortnite and Rocket League send a lot of people to Epic Games’ game browser. You can download them for free there. But that’s also one of the reasons why this milestone isn’t a big surprise. Epic Games has offered a lot of popular games for free in the Epic Store for a certain period of time. If you created an account for the Epic Store – and therefore Epic Games – you could get the game for free. This concerns relatively large titles such as Grand Theft Auto V. The latter brought about seven million players to the Epic Store – again all so extra accounts that Epic Games can add to the total. The Unreal Engine Matrix Experience is also available for PC gamers in the Epic Store. Six million people have also made good use of it.
Future
Well, it should be clear that not all those 500 million account holders actually use it every day, but you could observe peaks of 31 million users per day. If you happen to have an Epic Games account, don’t delete it. The publisher also wants to give away a few ‘big titles’ for free in 2022. We will see!
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