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They are talking about the Steam-competing store Epic launched recently: https://www.epicgames.com/store/ https://www.epicgames.com/store/ It's pretty empty n

• huhtenberg 8y ago
  The store is closely curated by Epic, and that - the quality of game selection - was their main pitch for the gamers. It's still possible that they will exhaust a pool of good games and start listing random junk for $100 like Steam does, but that's not likely to happen that quickly.
  • kbenson 8y ago
    Seems like Steam could pretty much fix that problem if they changed the fee to $200, and doled out $@-$5 credits to random people that reviewed similarly tagged games along with a copy of the game that's good for 5-10 hours before needing to be purchased (or until a certain date), as long as they give a thorough review of what they were able to see. Steam already tracks time played in the game, so it's not like they would have to add a bunch of mechanics to track extra stuff, and this would allow for some fairly good initial reviews to be seeded.
• Cu3PO42 8y ago
  That's what I understood as well. What I was, however, trying to figure out is how they think the rates of the marketplace will influence the traffic on the (mostly) separate store. After all, Epic could have had 88/12 rates for the store, but kept their 70/30 split for their Marketplace.