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Epic Games Store has more PC players than ever - 295m, in fact
295 million PC players have used Epic Games Store in the last year, up 25 million from 2023, and 898 million are using …
Watch on YouTube Epic also stressed that its Free Games Program - which has now been run for five consecutive years - has stocked player libraries with "over $2000 worth of great PC titles across 89 giveaways", and will continue on PC and mobile in 2025. "It's not only growth in [daily active users] and [monthly active users] that highlight how big the market opportunity is on the Epic Game Store, but third-party gametime as well, which grew from 2.41 Billion hours in 2023, to 2.68 Billion in 2024; a 11 per cent increase year over year." Whilst it remains unclear, what, exactly, the collaboration will be, noted Fortnite leaker HypeX said the status change likely comes because "they probably made a lot of progress and moved into the next roadmap milestone".
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