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Epic Games has acquired Rocket League developer Psyonix [Up: No Announced Plans to Stop Selling Rocket League on Steam] [Read Staff Post & Threadmark]
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Of course, there is cross play. Rocket league has cross play between Switch, PS4, PC, and Xbox One. The game has cross platform parties!! People will be able to play EGS vs. Steam no issue.
Everything they're doing has been done to coerce Steam customers specifically over to EGS while doing as much damage to Steam as a platform as possible. It's kind of stunning that you don't see that. It's not benign competition. These are targeted efforts to damage Steam, so that Epic may sling around their Fortnite money to fill the resultant hole with their presence. Epic just wants people paying them a cut instead of Valve (of course, but that's a far cry from the pretend altruism Epic wants you to perceive) and EVERYTHING they've done up to this point has been in service of that, and in service of damaging Valve's position specifically.
Man...Epic Games are getting agressive lol...I mean Valve/Steam still probably dont care for now but I think they should start lol.
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Yeah pretty much.... Valve the one that is slacking and people don't realize. Epic doing their business to expand and other devs getting shit ton of money from epic. Its win win for both while Valve is chilling.
They can't beat Steam, so they gotta start going after the bigger titles. Epic is the culmination of everything that's ever been wrong with the gaming industry. Psyonix is celebrating right now, until Epic starts demanding they update the game faster and pump out more MTX incentives. They ought to see what's been written about the FortNite team
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Lol. Probably taking notes while getting ready to announce a few acquisitions of his own next month.
At this point, yes, but Epic shows no sign of slowing down. They'll need to react somehow.
WHAT?! Epic is free to make as many studio acquisitions as it wants to, but pulling its games off Steam is a shitty move. Microsoft didn't remove Minecraft from non-Microsoft platforms when it acquired Mojang.
Rocket League is useless unless you've updated to the current version of the game. Do we know if Steam owners are going to get the updates as usual?
Epic can gobble all it wants, Steam still gets a stupid amount of games, there is always going to be something to fill the void.
Some indie developer should just create a rocket league clone now and release it on Steam. The player base will move to that instead of switching to EGS
their best way to compete would be to get a nother hallmark multiplayer game that just explodes in popularity and puts focus back on them. but its something that you can't really reproduce easily, there is a lot of luck and right timing involved also. artifact being an absolute non event proably shook the peepz at valve
So what does this mean for the Linux version? EGS doesn't support Linux yet, will it just not be available anymore?
For now
I fully expect epic store exclusive cars, skins, and more in the near future.
Steam should just cut off the storepage of these companies that are using it for free promo, ie Outer Worlds. You want to go timed exclusive, well, best of luck to you.
Do something.
Do something.
Imagine if MS removed games from studios they purchased such as Minecraft and Hellblade from PlayStation (on the contrary they actually ADDED platforms)? This is essentially what is happening lol.
Rocket League 2 being only on EGS? Sure. Removing it from STEAM? Bugger off with that
Rocket League 2 being only on EGS? Sure. Removing it from STEAM? Bugger off with that
Yup. Just look at Risk of Rain 2. There is always something coming out that becomes an unexpected surprise hit.
If they stop updating the Steam version people will riot, so I doubt that'll happen. It's pretty fucking ironic that the game Valve literally packaged with the Steam controller with will be taken off Steam entirely.
ItVoG was never announced for anything but PC. I made the same assumption too, but I checked the news releases.
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Valve doesn't even need to do that with Capcom, Square-Enix, and Microsoft. They already have a partnership in a way. Microsoft will have Halo on Steam without much pushing for it from Valve, and Capcom/Square-Enix just put their games on Steam because that seems to work. Square has an online store where they sell the MMORPGs FFXII and FFXIV and they still don't sell their own games or have their own launcher for the games that aren't MMORPGs.
ok makes sense.
found this quote from an interview from march re egs in china. no idea how true it is. and yeah i think it's 100% bullshit for people to suddenly be unable to buy stuff because they cant pay a certain way.
here's the quote and article https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/25/...china-metro-exodus-backlash-and-mature-games/
China.
Outside of games under the adult only tag (which is mostly hentai shovelware). Chinese users have access to completely uncensored games through Steam, No government or rating approval needed for a Steam release. They are the biggest (or 2nd biggest?) user base on Steam and a ton of developers have found massive success from chinese localizations. Being able to play uncensored games is a huge deal and Steam has made gaming so much better for this userbase.
EGS is actively blocked in China. If the game isn't available on Chinese storefronts like WeGame, You're shit out of luck unless you pirate. If it is, You get a censored version of the game that had to be approved by the government. Overall awful situation for them.
Again, literally nothing they are doing is so impacting to Steam that it goes out of business. This isn't like Disney. At all.
And that puts Steam out business how? What the fuck are you smoking?
Yeah, that's how you compete. You make your offerings look better than the other guys. Somehow I cannot believe how many people think that they are even doing that in a successful manner. EGS doesn't even have a fucking search bar.
Yeah. That's how competition works. No on is disputing that.
I literally said that it is a gross exaggeration to say EGS wants Steam to go out of business. It's not even in the realm of possibility. I don't get how saying that is causing such a shit storm.
They will per the press release. But I could see a future in which a "EGS edition" of the game comes out so they can phase out supporting the steam client.
Though that will depend how how far epics pettiness with valve will go.
Apparently nothing, which is what they've been good at for far too long.
You must have a different definition of "competitive" than the rest of us
Huh seems like it hasn't be announced/confirmed for anything than PC indeed. I just remember them tweeting to concerned people, but seems like it was about something else then. Thanks for the correction.
Edit: From their FAQ on their page
What platforms will the game release on?
In the Valley of Gods is in development for PC platforms (Windows, Mac, and Linux), but we haven't ruled out more platforms, including consoles. Follow us on Twitter and our development blog for news as it emerges.
Calm the fuck down with your agressive tone.
I'm not saying it puts Steam out of business. I'm saying their model is basically controlling who should do business and who shouldn't.
Wow good call thanks, didn't know you had to click the name
Saying that Valve doesnt do anything the same day they reveal their VR set is surely something.
Neither is Epic doing it
RL will still be available for PC, PS4, Xbone and Switch
I hope that will never happen or that EGS will support Steam controllers and custom bindings, otherwise I am fucked.
You're confusing EGS *wanting* Steam to go out of business and EGS *thinking* they can force Steam out of business. Of course they WANT Steam to go out but obviously they know it's not likely. This is the case in most any product sales business, no? How does Steam still being around benefit EGS?
The thing is Epic is clearly aiming for dominance, they are taking more and more aggressive steps and Valve didn't react, either becauae their horizontal structure is awful for these situations of a market quickly changing or their are unable to do so. In either case, they are basically leaving Epic a free road to steamroll.
Uber never said their objective were to kill Taxis,but it is.
Epic's handling of all this is not healthy for the industry. This isn't competition. It's strong arming.
You mean who gets sales and who doesn't? So.. competition?