As we all know, Epic is very generous, basically giving away a game every week. Originally, they were all small games, and everyone didn't care very much, but in recent years, the games sent by Epic have become more and more high-quality, and even many triple-A games have been sent. I especially regretted that I didn't receive GTA5 in the first year of the pandemic, so I still had to pay for that game later. Although Epic has sent a lot of games, it is true that most of them are small games that are not of high quality, which is undeniable. But as players, we can't be too picky, after all, it's given for nothing, what more do we need a bicycle.
Many people don't understand why Epic keeps sending games, in fact, it is to save the hearts of players, to be honest, I feel that this operation is like Tencent's style. Many people don't know what Epic did back then, and Epic was really disgusting back then, when it locked the region in China, giving people the feeling that they didn't respect Chinese players at all. Retribution came quickly, Epic had been very unsuccessful at that time, Unreal 3 at that time could not be sold at all, the quality was too poor, Unreal 4 was difficult to produce at that time, and the company's situation was already very dangerous. It can be said that it is all thanks to the investment of penguins to barely survive. After that, with Penguin's investment, with capital, productivity can naturally be improved, and Unreal 4 is no longer difficult to produce. In this way, the Unreal 4 engine was successfully born, and it can be said that Tencent is the real food and clothing parent of Unreal 4. Without Tencent, Epic would not have gone bankrupt.
With Tencent's shareholding funding, Epic immediately valued Chinese players, and in order to save the hearts and minds they lost in China, they could only keep sending games, hoping that players could return again and strive to grab more gamers from Steam. As we all know, Penguin is the least bad money, so they are completely giving, and they want to conquer the vast market in this way. And Epic still has a powerful Unreal 5 engine in its hands, and game manufacturers naturally give some face.
Next, I'll talk about what a game engine is. In layman's terms, a game engine is about integrating some basic code into a template to make it easier for players to make games, just like changing the act of knocking code into the act of building a map in Minecraft. Players can make their own game by modifying the important parameters of the template with Unreal Engine, which is still a lot of work, but it is much faster than simply typing code. In other words, game engines make it easier to create games.
Even if Epic is crazy to send games, but at the moment Steam is still in the leading position in the industry, if nothing else, Epic does not have Steam's workshop function. Not only that, Epic's network is also difficult to say, sometimes waiting a minute to get in. Therefore, Epic may not be able to take down Steam in the future, they are probably evenly divided, and they should be able to open five.
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