"According to authoritative insiders quoted by the roadside society, Epic Games, the world's coolest game company for the great and right, will officially start the acquisition of the well-known digital game distribution platform Steam......"
Early this morning, this news from Epic's official Weibo account woke up players who had not yet recovered from the weekend break. In the face of such a small and big picture, many people's first reaction must be "how did Epic do it"?
- Epic gave you an onion news on April Fool's Day.
I have to say that Epic's April Fool's Day joke is still made up with a nose and an eye. According to Epic's "authoritative insiders", Steam's market share has dropped from 99.99% to 99.98% over the past year, and experts say this figure represents a sign that Steam has been driven out of PC game distribution.
During this period, Epic did not forget to hack its own client, saying that players can not only log in to the game in 10 minutes (slow connection speed), learn English when searching for games (Chinese search is not supported), and master the use of accelerators when downloading (slow download speed). These expressions are all hilarious.
And the most important point is that Epic also promised to give players benefits after the acquisition of Steam, and all butter on the Steam platform will become a free-to-play game in the future! According to the data given by Epic's onion news, after learning this information, people's support for Epic's acquisition of Steam increased from 4.1% to 410%.......
While all of the above is fake news and essentially an April Fool's joke, Epic's whole effort has entertained players. But then again, a lot of the time the truth of the matter is told in a joking tone. If the "butter freedom" of players can really be realized, I believe that the number of people who support the acquisition will skyrocket.
Epic has always been able to operate with a dynamic and thought-provoking response. On Zhihu, when someone thinks that Epic is the PDD of the game distribution platform industry, and there is no difference between the two, Epic will say with a little shyness: "PDD will not answer this question".
When someone asked "why I chose Epic over Steam", Epic's official name was able to open up the landscape and answer this question seriously. Epic sees Steam as a large supermarket chain like Walmart, and positions itself as a small store. It can be summed up in one sentence: "provide players with one more choice".
Since its official launch in 2018, Epic has established itself over the years. Although there are still some problems with the client, the progress is also visible to the naked eye. 2024 is the sixth year of the Epic Games White Give program, with new games coming to the library every week. As an option for players to buy games online, I believe that Epic will continue to play this role in the future.
So have you ever bought a game on Epic?