I don't know if they would though, If EGS and Steam were the same size that developers would exclusively go without some type of incentive such as the pile of money given. I think it would be a much more likely scenario of developers putting the game on both stores, not to mention depending on if they wanna use any client specific features.
I fail to see how they are forced to continue buying exclusives and NOT improve on the feature set of the store. They have in house developers working on new features for the store (very slowly as everyone is aware). I can't see how ANYTHING that has happened or been said regarding the store has indicated that no new features would ever be implemented. It would be guaranteed failure for the platform if they didn't.
But Steam has this same issue and has done just fine. There is enough money in this market to make competing with a new store viable. It's why Valve can afford to not counter offer anything to the devs being poached by Epic and just simply wait and see what happens.
Valve and Gabe Newell have said time and time again that they don't believe in exclusivity of games. They will probably never pay for exclusivity. They excel at providing stuff like Proton, OpenVR etc.
Again my question: What about Linux support? I can no longer play the game and have to wait for the release on other storefronts like GOG, Humble or Steam.
No cloud saves, no steam controller profiles even if you add the game as non steam (no native universal controller support either), no steam achievements, games a lot more expensive, no family sharing, no forum for a game to look at for any bugs/tips/mods.
Pretty sure that "Ew" comment was just some pretend bullshit to act like "See? To each their own".
Personally I would say... Don't use Linux for gaming lol, but that's just me :P
1) Yeah the multiple social media trashfires were enough for me to never touch that shit again, fuck that noise.
As I said above, who's saying these features aren't coming? And I mean, come on, achievements and forums... You're using one of those features right now without the aid of Steam :P
Trading cards I mean, sure, I can take them or leave them, but I accept that people care about them; but screenshots??? :P You've never not been able to take screenshots.
I agree, It's really interesting long term when most of the exclusive deals run out and they do release the games on steam and gog if it will make a difference for other devs going forward if the performance wasn't there on the egs store. One of the most interesting things I find right now is the lack of sales knowledge because If games were doing amazing sales on egs than it seems like epic would be championing it but other than a few games that have announced numbers, it's silent.
I don't agree, I think the lack of features is a huge sticking point especially when epic keeps missing the timeline. It's not the installing another launcher if that was the case than no problem but it's also them specifically paying to keep them off other places but being okay with them being on windows store and so on. Buying exclusives like this just doesn't go over well.
Steam forums have much more info about games than era, pc performance threads almost no longer exists here, not to mention games with mods fix like jrpgs, mhw, nier. I certainly didn't get the fix from era. And we know some of those are never coming to egs, the forum for sure, or family sharing.
It seems like you're handwaving all worries about exclusivity, which ends up meaning exactly that.
Sweeney himself said they don't plan Linux support at all. And the client doesn't work with Wine 95% of the time.
How about people who live in unsupported countries or use unsupported payment methods?
It isn't true and it would be a formula for failure, I agree.
Which is exactly why the strategy of buying exclusives is only viable short term. Please read my posts leading up to the comment you have quoted. You are repeating points I have made myself.
Nah "jumped the gun", dude you basically told me I want Epic to shit on the little guys out of spite. When that's the exact opposite of what they're doing in this case. You told me I was dismissive of GOG as part of some cynical act because "idk reasons", when in actual fact I steer clear of them out of principle because I find their past behaviour and attitudes utterly contemptible. Please do not tell me I'm full of it. Disagree with everything else I've said so far but please do not put that shit on me.
Correct. Valve is already established. They retain their users via an expanded feature set. If Epic want's to succeed longterm, they will need to do the same.
Well, if it helps, while I thought the "Ew" comment was supposed to be symbolic, showing your position, the "you're full of it" was exclusively targeted at the line I quoted, as I think dismissing steam features as "overlays or whatever it does" is dishonest, that's what I meant.
How is that related to the comment? It was stated that Epic still has the issue of major AAA games being exclusive to their own platforms (like Origin). I stated Valve faces the same issue. There is lots of money to be made. It's a non problem.
If you're referring to me, please refer directly to me; I'm not 'baiting' anyone? I'm just expressing my thoughts on this, which a lot of people clearly disagree with for sure, but I don't see how that's something that deserves reporting?
No it's fine, I just wanted to make that really really clear is all.
That's not a problem and please don't stop talking, nothing wrong with having a discussion with various viewpoints.
