Epic PR person 1: "pc gamers are pissed at us for bribing developers"
Epic PR person 2: "let's bribe pc gamers as well"
Well done Epic. Here's my response:
How have you not already deleted your account?
Spying on the enemy from the inside maybe?
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Epic Mega Sale is now live ($10 off every game priced $14.99 and up!) [Read Staff Post]
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How have you not already deleted your account?
Spying on the enemy from the inside maybe?
Yeah, it's generally not worth it yet as a Canadian to buy from here for certain games due to regional pricing. I would love for them to fix that as it is one of the major gripes I have with their store.
Just had a look and from the U.K. pricing it doesn't seem to be anything mind blowing. I would've bought Hades but considering it's double the US price I don't think I'll bother.
When I last looked (which was admittedly fairly close to 'Early access launch' of Below Zero), it was pretty rough around the edges - but you can probably check the steam site's discussion forum/store page to see what they've thrown in since then.
Last I heard, it was 'just the basics' of the game put in, which was basically a repeat of what you were doing in the original game.
I never made such a claim, I wasn't the guy that broguht it up in the first place, I merely pointed out that Steam putting their own game on a preorder sale is not the same as EGS putting basically their entire catalogue on sale, preorder included.
Preorder incentives are quite common, with lowered prices up until release, but I can't recall a single time steam actually included a bunch of unreleased games in their event sales. That would indicate that the store owner is eating the costs themselves, rather than the publisher giving an incentive to preorder.
We have to buy as many games as we can to make them bankrupt.
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Yep. So much for Epic being inevitable and detractors being a minority.
People will follow the games 4Head
Wait, are Epic paying for the entire 70% discount with those pre-orders? (Although in the UK store, there's not actually any additional discount on pre-orders, just the £10)
I mean, it's barebones and shit, but it works? Better than some launchers i've used in the past. If you want features then buy shit on Steam probably, but for a cheap price where you just want the game to run then it's perfectly fine. At the same price, for the consumer side, there's no reason to not buy on Steam vs Epic atm.
It's definitely not the anti-christ like some think though.
I've only found out today that there's a "delete account" button on Epic's account page. They may have added it recently, or perhaps I've just overlooked it last time. :)
Yeah, ended up going with Google just because it seems really clean in its design.
i like this idea some people have that being whiners actually brought on sales and that it's not just a thing that stores do, heh
I stopped using Google auths when I can and do email or phone instead. Authy is great because it has recovery and redundancies. Every time I switch to a new phone I inevitably lose access to some of my 2FA.
These prices make it super-easy to just stick to GOG for all those non-exclusive games.
Right, but my question is: has Steam ever choked on a few bucks to make those discounts even bigger? When games end up at 60-80% off, is the dev always the one swallowing the difference? Or did Steam motivate developers to participate in those flash sales and annual mega-price-drops?
How is that a bad thing from a consumer point of view though?
Guess the deals are pretty good for the cheap games. The Pre-order for $10 off isn't bad, but I've done better just buying via steamkeys normally (RE2 remake for $46 on GMG pre-order was my last one as I recall). Not really impressed by the offering of games or discounts, but still cool that they're doing it I guess.
Literally only once that I can think of, during the very recent Lunar New Year sale you could get an extra $5 off.
It's not.
Exactly this. And Epic throwing money to consumers as well is just another effort to make people accepting it.
Hope you guys are ready for all us U.S folks starting to get on and be like "Oh it's nothing" lol. No the indie title sales are quite good. AAA are hardly worth noting.
Gotta say, quite salty at my John Wick price in the EU being more than double the US price. What the hell, man
There are people in this thread saying this sale is anti-consumer. Confirmation bias can be really strong.
Fucking crazy that they just said "let's substract "10" when "over 15", regardless of currency".
That makes it a 16.67% discount in the EU/US on a new game but somewhere like mexico it's 20 instead of 30, making it 33% off.
That makes it a 16.67% discount in the EU/US on a new game but somewhere like mexico it's 20 instead of 30, making it 33% off.
People who aren't buying games on epic right now are supporting them.
In the case of John Wick Hex, the list price in the UK is £15.99. The discounted price is £4.39. Total discount is £11.60, or 72.5%. £10 of that discount is subsidised by Epic, which is 62.5% (with the other 10% presumably coming out of the publisher/developer cut).
I've never seen anything like that on a healthy/successful platform.
Color me surprised (not) if this turns out to be mostly great sales for America and fuck all for the rest... just like the rest of Epic's mindset.
If they ordered in the past two weeks, that is reportedly true.
not sure of the people who did before then (I don't specifically know when it popped up on Epic's store)
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LMAO.
Almost every non-US region is getting a bigger discount than US/EU.
Yes they actually do if they preordered up to 2 weeks ago, everybody who ordered any game will apparently
Got it. So in that case, major drops eaten by devs haven't been all bad on the Steam platform. Why would major drops eaten entirely by Epic be bad? If it draws a crowd in the long run, it's good for me, it's good for you, and it's good for the people making the games.
I guess I would just need more analysis to understand why price drops of a substantial size, for pre-order or already available games, would be bad in the long run for devs. Gamers that are going to wait for sales will wait for sales, and those who want to play when they find out something is good are more likely to pay full or near-full price anyway, right?
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Imagine if they had just used their money to do this in the first place instead of buying exclusives. Then it would just be a barebones launcher with some decent prices at the very least.
I'm still never making an account or giving them money though 🤷♂️
I'm still never making an account or giving them money though 🤷♂️
That's some good deals. At least for some regions not fucked over by Epic.
Seems like good choice to prevent Epic from devaluing game tbh.
Just the £10 or regional equivalent everything else is from devs pocket.
Steam just had discount similar to this last sale. (not as crazy though)
But generally yes, every discount on Steam is done by devs.
And normally you only discount when game is not selling anymore at higher price, that's the motivation.
Seems like we got screwed out of the Hades discount
Seems like good choice to prevent Epic from devaluing game tbh.
Just the £10 or regional equivalent everything else is from devs pocket.
Steam just had discount similar to this last sale. (not as crazy though)
But generally yes, every discount on Steam is done by devs.
And normally you only discount when game is not selling anymore at higher price, that's the motivation.