Epic Video games is in courtroom making an attempt to show that Google is working an unlawful monopoly with their Google Play retailer. As a part of the trial, Epic Video games Retailer boss Steve Allison has admitted that the Epic Video games Retailer continues to be not worthwhile, in line with reporting by The Verge.

If this sounds extraordinarily acquainted, it’s as a result of Epic tried to get an identical ruling towards Apple. It went fairly poorly for them at the moment. I assume all these layoffs the corporate carried out freed up sufficient finances to pay their legal professionals for one more go. If at first you don’t succeed.

Talking of not succeeding, the Epic Video games Retailer doesn’t appear to be. We knew it wasn’t turning a revenue from emails revealed in 2021. A part of it’s because the corporate has been doling out cash to try to safe exclusivity for sure titles and giving out others without spending a dime to try to drive adoption of the platform. Extra particularly, the leaked emails confirmed that Epic paid $146 million for Borderlands 3 to be unique to the platform.

To place it extra into perspective, Epic thought in the event that they gave out free video games, secured exclusives, and gave builders a greater share of the gross sales, they’d be capable of get individuals to undertake their platform and safe 50% of the PC market. They beforehand mentioned they anticipated to start out bringing in an annual revenue by 2023. 4 years later, that technique nonetheless hasn’t labored. In the meantime, this previous September, they laid off 16% of their workforce. When that fails, I suppose the following logical step is to sue your method to success. We’ll see how that works out for them this time.

The Epic Video games Retailer launched in December 2018. It’s nonetheless not worthwhile.