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Borderlands 3 Announce trailer (PS4, Xbox One, Epic Games Store Exclusive for 6 months), coming September 13th 2019 [read staff post]
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It's sad. Their articles about EGS are reading like PR written by Epic.
I'm done with pc gamer. I've removed them from my favorites and on social media.
It may also be a good idea to stop linking them here, you're only giving them extra clicks. Use way back machine or make a screen shot when necessary.
You should be able to add anything to Big Picture Mode as long as you direct it to the correct .exe file. I've done it plenty of times with non-steam games.
The FAQ was written by some great guys from Metacouncil, who are fellow PC Era members as well. ☺️
Yeah perhaps. But the more people are aware, the higher the chance that they vote with their wallets against this. PC gamers have succeeded in beating capitalism before.
Guess i'm waiting 6 months. Go ahead epic and keep doing your best but you ain't gonna win becoming a main platform against a library of hundreds. To the more principled person this only kills any good will so good luck throwing cash without gaining anything except being assholes.
I wonder if Rock Paper Shotgun feels the same way or not. Its sad how no PC focused youtuber/journalist wants to argue in good faith.
For people who don't care about platform,this has no impact. For people who wanted Steam,6 months is not that long.
Nevertheless, if people bought a PS4 for Bloodborne,I don't understand how they just can't install a different launcher for 6 months earlier release.
Nevertheless, if people bought a PS4 for Bloodborne,I don't understand how they just can't install a different launcher for 6 months earlier release.
In UK the physical Super Deluxe Edition will be exclusive to GAME store only, laaame guess just Standard edition for me elsewhere not GAME I'll buy season pass later for cheap
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/pre-order-guide-borderlands-3-diamond-loot-chest-s/1100-6466008/
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/pre-order-guide-borderlands-3-diamond-loot-chest-s/1100-6466008/
The good news I gather from this is that they are keeping it a singleplayer/coop game and not a GAAS mmo-lite like Destiny/Division/Anthem. Which is 100% the right move, but still somehow surprising with todays schlooter landscape.
Hell yes! In my top three most anticipated for this year -- behind Pokemon and Link's Awakening. I'm fine with picking it up on the Epic store.
People everywhere are letting their desires for change from Valve cloud the fact that Epic has shitty business practices. The ends don't justify the means and it is incredibly frustrating to see the amount of people that are blindly embracing it all. Nothing, and I repeat, nothing has been to the benefit of consumers so far
Happy to see that it's coming out this year as it is looking mighty fine so far. Feel bad for those who have to wait longer to get it because of the whole Epic Games Store exclusivity.
That's a good trailer. Will definitely pick Moze because Titanfall Shlooter.
Now the question is should I buy this day one or wait for GOTY edition ? How substantial is the DLC for Borderlands 2 (I played the base game but never the DLC) ?
Now the question is should I buy this day one or wait for GOTY edition ? How substantial is the DLC for Borderlands 2 (I played the base game but never the DLC) ?
It depends on the country. Epic doessn't support local currencies for a lot of places and for those places the price is in dollars. Additionally unless you have a Brazilian payment option (a brazilian card) you won't be able to purchase as your payment will fail. Lastly, even if you somehow manage to buy it...your EGS will LOCK to the region you bought your first game in and the only way to change it is by contacting support...which means you can't do it frequently or else you'll get flagged.Yo guys, can someone help me out here. I'm trying to experiment on the regional pricing on Epic Games Store, and I'm using Brazil as my example.
When I set my account to brazil and go to purchase, Borderlands 3 first shows 59.99 USD, then at checkout it changes to 30 USD, which is 116 Brazilian Real.
Does EGS always show USD as the currency? Or should the currency reflect the region?
I have a couple pictures attached. I don't know if it's just something wrong with the store.
I'm not as pessimistic about this game as I was for the Dev Trailer, but man I just think these trailers have been *bad*
Yeah this is every bit like timed third party console exclusivity. Remember, Rise of the Tomb Raider? I didn't see many defending that and applauding MS for bringing competition when PC and PS4 gamers had to wait. But it was different I guess... :p
I mean there's a lot to be annoyed by when it comes to EGS.
But a game being full price before launch? Really?
Its usually 15% off when sold on authentic third party resellers and also there's sometimes a pre-order discount on Steam on some games at times like around 10%.
Well if the tactic works well and games sell in high numbers I doubt it will ever stop.
Third party sellers usually list keys for 5-20% off leading up to release. That's how I do most of my purchases. Valve doesn't get a cut and the revenue split between publishers/devs and third parties is negotiated independent of Valve. It's the best approach I've seen so far that works in favor of devs and consumers. Epic doing something similar would kill at least some of the ire, I think.
Its weird that whenever examples like that get brought up, people ignore it. Like, it clearly wasn't okay when Microsoft did it. Why is it okay now?
I mean that's neat, but to complain about a game being full price before launch and citing that as a reason to not get a game is still weird to me.
A lot of people who claim see this as positive or neutral actually like it because they think it hurts PC gaming.
A first party game that's only on sonys platform is fine. 3rd party exclusives are not fine on PC nor console.
There are plenty of reasons YOU should care but it's also your right not to.
Does not mean people should not complain just because your ok with less consumer options.
Yeah, it's been a recurring discussions surrounding this deal because this is the first 6-months deal they've made. People believe that it's due to Take Two asking for too much from Epic. It's a very high profile new game after all.
He doesn't like the negative attention Gearbox is receiving as a result of the exclusivity deal, so he's making a commitment he knows he won't have to keep in an attempt to shift the discussion away from this snafu and to Valve being the "bad guys" because it seemingly refuses to pull Half-Life out of suspended animation.
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Seems so lol.
Yeah, that makes sense... Still feels like a really odd stance to take though. Like the top comment says "so what your saying is it will never happen" I mean anyone can see that.
