Ubisoft games were pulled for unrelated reasons before the sale was announced.
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Borderlands 3 preorders on Epic Store have been suspended
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Actually the Ubi games hasn't been purchasable since prior to the sale.
Well at least you can pre-order Borderlands 3 at Greenmangaming for regular price. Thank goodness for third party sites.
I wonder if they took it due to legal reasons like there is some kind of parity policy, which means that they would have lost those $10 bucks from the other sales on consoles and retailers.here, not my image.
This sale is hella confusing. Now it's not worth buying anything for my region. Only a handful of games are on sale during this "Mega Sale".
The point is that its aa massive discount for the folks in those region compared to anywhere else so it devalues the game and might be leading yo people using VPNs to get these very cheap versions though I don't know how valid the second point is
You're complaining that they're being greedy. At least be consistent. They're jumping form the store because they think their games are being devalued, presumably this being the act that spawned the pricing changes of the discounts on the store.
Why should a publisher be able to opt out if it is not impacting their funds?
Best Buy doesn't need permission to pit something on sale for less than Target.
As long as Epic is paying full wholesale to publishers, any hit taken by Epic is not their concern.
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Not sure what the big deal is anway. It's not like EGS would ever be able to deal in the same amount of racist apologia as Steam.
Doesn't make sense. Other games had been cheaper on EGS then they were on consoles prior to launch like metro.
And the solution for that is what they did today: The price displayed is what the devs set, the discount only applies on checkout. Then there's no issue of lower perceived values.
increasing prices and removing games is just scummy shit. Epic is taking the money from their own pockets, publishers have nothing to do with this. It's none of their business.
But of course, as always with EGS, no one thought things through before the sale, they're figuring things out as they go. It's a shitshow.
Good to know, thanks.
Any idea what those reasons are? I had only searched for them during the sale and figured it was related to this.
we dont actually know what kinds of deals publishers have in place. We do know that publishers forced out the gamers club unlocked and amazon discounts though, so its very possible there are price parity deals in place, at least for launch and pre release, that we dont know about.
I gotta find the receipts again on the GCU thing
There's a good deal of truth here. But arguing this point for Epic, which made a big thing about listening to devs and pubs for their store... Ummm. It's hard to square the two.
If that was the reason they shouldnt have put on the ES first, the game already loses value both from a price point, since games are cheaper there, and from a marketing point since theres a large pool of users wont the ES in any way.
You can't just use a VPN to buy on other regions. You also need a local payment method
I'm only going to give you the publishers =/= developers thing. People don't stop buying games on the others platforms after a sale. Thinking that's the reason why this happens is stupid. It's purely pettiness.
Actually, in most cases a store front has to have the OK from the provider to discount pre-order items. Especially is said provider is into a price parity contract (which is usually the case with AAA titles on consoles), which can then lead to contract breach and litigation for the publisher.
They are having issues with the uplay handshake integration. Since it's something that you have to do the first time you boot a uplay game on EGS. But once that's done people can play as normal...even without using Epic store and just launch it from uplay. Which is why people who already own those games can still use them. It's just the initial handshake that activates the game on uplay is what's causing issues. So they disabled new purchases.
As you can see here, the games are on the website just not searchable or ordinarily visible. If you try to buy them then you'll get an error since the purchases were disabled for it since before the sale. The issue will most likely be fixed before the sale ends.
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/ghost-recon-breakpoint/home
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/the-division-2/home
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/anno-1800/home
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I mentioned it in the OP, but it is reportedly an issue with the Epic Store/uPlay integration. I didn't see any more details than that.
It's feasible that this issue could be fixed before the end of the sale (June 13th), but we'll have to wait and see.
Yes but the first point still stands especially with the discounts being extremely lopsided.
*clears throat for 10 full minutes*
*taps mic*
Epic sale?
More like Epic Fail!
Thank you. Thank you.
*taps mic*
Epic sale?
More like Epic Fail!
Thank you. Thank you.
Good grief, how do you fuck up a simple sale so badly?!
Doesn't seem like some developers want their customers receiving discounts of any kind. This is why I honestly don't give a damn about their cuts.
Doesn't seem like some developers want their customers receiving discounts of any kind. This is why I honestly don't give a damn about their cuts.
Thanks for the info about the Ubisoft and Uplay issues. I already edited my first post to make sure I wasn't adding needlessly to the discourse.
I need to figure out why I've been having this issue in Chrome where not everything loads properly when I view threads. Been having this for over a week now and it did it again with yours. Never even saw the part where you talked about the Uplay thing until I refreshed it. Sorry.
I need to figure out why I've been having this issue in Chrome where not everything loads properly when I view threads. Been having this for over a week now and it did it again with yours. Never even saw the part where you talked about the Uplay thing until I refreshed it. Sorry.
Probably has to do with their dogshit CMS for the store, same reasons they have so few games, it takes a lot of manual work to add games to the store. But not to worry, it's on the roadmap.
From a press release: "Also, for every game purchase over $14.99, Epic Games is providing an additional $10 off to players at no cost to the publisher or developer."
Curious if devs actually were affected by the $10 discount after all?
Curious if devs actually were affected by the $10 discount after all?
Again, they're getting paid the same. It doesn't even matter if the discounts are lopsided when they get paid the same. People still buys games after every sale period on every single platform on the industry.
Imagine companies taking games out of Steam during the Chinese New Year sales because Valve also gave additional discounts. Or companies taking out products out of every store that has a membership where you can use points to add additional discounts. It's plain pettiness. Not even being greedy, because, as I said, getting paid the same.
Then I will assume that it was what I thought before, that Epic did not tell the publishers that it was going to include the pre-orders, the publishers didn't like it for some legal reason not known to us and the Epic store lacks the ability to disable such promotion per game which has forced them to disable selling the game on the store for the time being.
but what if these companies are required to maintain price parity for all versions pre-release?
Someone posted a John Wick Hex dev tweet that stated Epic were footing the $/£/€10 bill.
This has is not something that happens. The existence of GMG and CDkeys relies on not having this price parity requirement.
The post discount price of BL3 on EGS was the same as GMG price after discount in several regions, including cheap regions like India. So they were already selling those games for that price there (and STILL ARE), and they make less money off GMG copies than they do on EGS copies since GMG takes 30% cut and uses that for the discount while Epic is footing the bill for this sale while devs/pubs still get 88% cut.
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Then those companies would stop selling on Amazon / Gamestop where games have reduced prices thanks to memberships like Prime or GCU. Or just a plain discount like shops like Best Buy do before release.
Not really since those discounts are rate based and so don't really mess with the whole regional pricing thing? In this specific case, it shouldnt be that hard to see why a company wouldn't want their game to be sold at 60%+ discount in places b e f o r e release even. There's more factors at play at times than just how much it costs them to do the sale.
That explains it. I thought why not just say "most games are $10 off" instead of all.
So the featureset is not ready yet to do this.
Normally you don't discount on your own behalf, if you don't sell your own product or service.