https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/epic-games-store-boss-quits-after-8-years-to-take-up-new-role-at-saber-interactive/>After an eight year stretch as vice president and general manager of the Epic Games Store, Steve Allison has left Epic Games to take up the mantle of chief business officer at Saber Interactive.>Prior to joining Epic in 2018, Allison served as senior vice president of publishing at Telltale Games. He also held executive roles at Midway, Atari, and Accolade.>It's not clear exactly when Allison left Epic, although his LinkedIn page indicates he was still serving as Epic Games Store chief in July. His former boss, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, shared a tribute of his own on X. "Thanks to Epic veteran Steve Allison for launching the Epic Games Store in 2018 and driving it to 78 million monthly active users today!">Some of the responses to Sweeney's message highlight the awkward side of Allison's tenure on the Epic Games Store: After almost a decade of operation, the launcher still kinda sucks, and it's not just me saying so, but Allison himself. He literally said "the launcher sucks" in February, right around the same time he announced that Epic would be "ripping out the guts" of the launcher as part of a major technical upgrade aimed at making the whole thing not suck.>The Epic Games Store has grown significantly since it went live in 2018, in part by giving away literally hundreds of millions of free games—billions of copies in total by now, surely—a strategy it pursues to this day. 78 million MAU is definitely nothing to sneeze at, but Steam remains the big dog in PC gaming stores: Valve doesn't share Steam's monthly numbers but Simon Carless at GameDiscoverCo did some back-of-napkin math and estimated that Steam is doing, very roughly, around 200 million MAU.Damn imagine working on EGS for a nearly a decade and it still sucks. Maybe the next boss won't be as shitty.
Space Marine 3 is gonna have battlepass and all that bullshit built in. RIP Saber, it was a good run, at least we got SM2.
>fails upwards to saber interactiverip world war Z and space marines
Everyone long ago realized that at this point EGS is not going to amount to anything other than free games and glorified fortnite launcher which is entirely subsidizing the free game apparently but we'll see how much longer they can afford to keep firing staff until the game giveaways stop
>>743372685considering the shovelware they give away for 50 weeks of the year they've effectively stoppedthese days they're probably paying peanuts for shit that gets less than 5k sales across all platforms
Saber Interactive and Bethesda screwed over the Quake Champions fanbase by firing the only person working on it without even allowing users to host private servers like they said they would in 2017 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices. Do not buy Id Software games. Do not buy Saber Interactive games. Do not buy Microsoft hardware. Email ToddH oward and tell him that until Bethesda atones for lying to and betraying the Quake Champions fanbase, he will not see another thin dime.JUSTICE FOR QUAKE CHAMPIONS.
>>743371726There’s an Epic games store?
