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PC Gaming Era | January 2019 - Return of the Obra Dinn wins PC Gaming Era GOTY
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I dunno, I read that EGS is just a program you use to launch a game. Like Word. Or Minesweeper.
Wait till I open my store. I'm locking Tizoc to a 1 year exclusive deal for providing his curated list of upcoming games minus horror because horror thumbnails scare me. The rest of you will get his list a year late.
*evil laugh*
On a serious note I hope people stop blaming developers as most aren't in the room when these decisions are made per their messaging. That's why steam pages are being pulled last minute because the core development team is being told much later by publishing.
Similar to what happened with titanfall and EA. No one works on another sku with no plans to ship it.
As far as indies who are self publishing I honestly can't fault them for cutting deals to be made whole as soon as possible. When your house is double mortgaged and you need to feed your family I say get paid and live another day.
Most indies already come late to various platforms but usually are much improved when they do hit so waiting a bit doesn't bother me.
*evil laugh*
On a serious note I hope people stop blaming developers as most aren't in the room when these decisions are made per their messaging. That's why steam pages are being pulled last minute because the core development team is being told much later by publishing.
Similar to what happened with titanfall and EA. No one works on another sku with no plans to ship it.
As far as indies who are self publishing I honestly can't fault them for cutting deals to be made whole as soon as possible. When your house is double mortgaged and you need to feed your family I say get paid and live another day.
Most indies already come late to various platforms but usually are much improved when they do hit so waiting a bit doesn't bother me.
The game's already confirmed to come back to steam in 2020, and physical copies supposedly still contain steam keys too, which makes this move all the more scummy.
Oh only a year exclusivity? I may return it and work on my backlog :P
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It's pretty much the same as the Division 2
Both games were announced and had steam store pages where you could preorder the game
Both taken down now.
Expect more to occur lol
I wonder how long Epic can keep moneyhatting though and honestly if it means I just have to wait , I don't mind waiting
Epic hates EU. This and payment fees on popular methods confirms it. Free payment by sharing your bank credentials though because that's good idea lol.
Rise of the tomb raider.
But, two weeks is wacky.
Guess you'd better hope epic adds cloud saves in two weeks.
Valve must be livid.
ohhhhh no. :(
Which one? The new one? Rip.. maybe I should test my copy too...
Promises of economic benefits for the UK turn out to be hogwash? How unusual.
I assume this just means everything on the Epic store gets the same 1 year exlusivity.
This is my worry
I just hope if something like that occurs it's not a exclusive deal but a timed deal lol
Why would they with those sales? mh is the biggest top seller and nier did crazy good for the niche title. Refunds, charge backs where?
That's true, and I will certainly direct my misgivings to Deep Silver.
Of course, it's also a sad fact that a lot of the anger directed by this will hit the devs, as for most people they are more visible than the publisher, unless it's one of the really big ones (your EA, Ubi and whatnot)
Yeah, I never blame indies for deals like this.
I will 100% make exceptions when it's a publisher the size of fucking Deep Silver. Fuck both them and Epic.
It seems like Epic is gonna try and pull this crap once a month or so with a big game. It's gonna be a long year I think.
yes, unluckily I had both the text bug and some fps issues.
The former is a bug where the story text in the VN segments of the game auto scrolls (as if auto mode was toggled) without waiting for user confirmation. It seems a weird af bug as they haven't been successful at replicating it internally so far, it almost feels like there's something in the buffer so the text autoscrolls as the game goes to ask for user input. Text also advances pretty fast as it seems to be tied to framerates (which wouldn't be a problem if it asked for user input before advancing), so it's kinda fast at 60 fps.
You can check pretty early in the game, first cutscene where
Asuka is asked out by a boy while going to school
I was gonna wait it out until they fixed if it was just for FPS issues tbh, but the text bug really annoys me.
Yeah people don't realize it's always the actions of a few. Rarely does that so called bonus money trickle down to developers who work on these titles.
I still remember being on a game that was not going great but had everyone crunching to get it done including last minute added resources. One day we all come in only to find out on kotaku the game was delayed six months.
Everyone was furious because obviously upper management knew but didn't tell us so that everyone would keep working crazy hours thinking the date was near.
Real slap in the face to find out online. I imagine these Epic announcements for bigger games are handled in a similar fashion.
Yeah, you're probably right, and sadly, most pubs will take that deal. For most of them, PC ports are just a sideshow anyway, just a cheap way to get additional revenue. So if someone actually pays them serious cash for exclusivity, they'll bite.
I assume some of them will even make it full on permanent exclusives, simply because they don't care about PC. Like that Journey port from Anapurna.
Yeah i was thinking that, would love to see their sales numbers for the last few hours on Steam.
Spinning the messaging as moneyhatting being good for consumers was pure evil from the start, I'm not lowering expectations for scumbaggery for a while.
Keep it up Bronson... it's a thankless job but somebody has to clean out the zamboni tank
It is slimey af how Epic gets to use all of the features of steam this way. While steam users can't buy the game on steam for a year.
If Sweeney plays his cards right they won't ever need to implement any features as they can just keep sniping games off the steam store in a timely fashion lol.
I wonder if Valve gonna allow shit like that going forward.
If Sweeney plays his cards right they won't ever need to implement any features as they can just keep sniping games off the steam store in a timely fashion lol.
I wonder if Valve gonna allow shit like that going forward.
About the business side? I have no idea.
They aren't happy about what the public perception of their team looks like when they had no say in it.
BronsonLee if it makes your life any easier, you can 3 day me anytime you want.
Just PM me if you're game and I'll post a shitpost the likes of which Ban Puncher could only dream of.
Just PM me if you're game and I'll post a shitpost the likes of which Ban Puncher could only dream of.
You mean this case of Metro in particular, or just devs and the epic store in general?
Can you sniff around and find out what SuperGiant team is thinking about Hades on Epic Store month later? :D And I guess you are talking about Ashen because Annapurna is obviously took money and made move to Epic Store.
It would be pretty funny if Metro sold more on Steam today than it does on the Epic store over the next year.
For the publisher it will
Because cause and effect look at the top selling game on steam now
Plus the moneyhat monies that epic will give out
It's a win win for corporations and a loss for consumers lol
So in other words...business as usual
I dunno, with more and more exclusives, and maybe getting "influencers" on Youtube talking about how great Epic Launcher is, maybe it could start moving people off Steam?
This whole Steam and Epic store situation reminds me of this for some reason
https://youtu.be/i96VS_z8y7g?t=121
https://youtu.be/i96VS_z8y7g?t=121
LMAO this shit is so scummy. Sell the game on Steam for as long as possible, make a money deal with Epic for a year and pull it two weeks before launch, and try to look like the good guys by going "were knocking 10 bucks off for North American buyers!"Metro Exodus in now top 1 & top 3 seller.
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