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Epic Games Store Users Have Grown by 173% in Six Years, But Revenue Only by 1.6% (www.eteknix.com)

submitted 1 day ago by nemeski@mander.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not number of users, mind you, that's the increase in mass of the exact same users.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

what does that mean

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago

People do multiple accounts to ban-evade. They cheat, get banned, and move to another account. Games were free, so nothing of value is lost to cheaters.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

He's saying that there's no new users, the existing users are 173% fatter.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

That the users have put on a lot of weight 🤷