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Epic Games Store Users Have Grown by 173% in Six Years, But Revenue Only by 1.6% (www.eteknix.com)
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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You're still being an "active user" that they can use to pad their numbers and entice investors.

If you want to hurt Epic the best way to do it is to not log into their system at all.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I mean defining "active users" is an inherently political choice in any metric. You're ultimately choosing how to slice the data for analysis, so if you adjust your metrics on customers who only claim free games vs customers who actually spend money on the platform the data can tell completely different stories.

I suppose the point is, collecting the free games probably creates non-negligable costs for Epic, and how that looks on their released metrics is entirely up to how the data gets sliced

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

It's a negligible cost. Evidenced by the fact that despite a significant number of "new users" just collecting the free games and not spending any money, EGS continues to give away free games.

Clearly padding the number of users is worth it to them more than the 'cost' of those users claiming a free license on their account. Otherwise they would stop doing it.