-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
The Outer Worlds, Control, Dauntless, SpellBreak, The Cycle, Ancestors & More Coming As Timed Exclusives To Epic Games Store; TOW also on MS Store
- Thread starter SweetNicole
- Start date
I really wanted to play Sinking City, Control, and Outer Worlds...
Fuck me...
2019 is going to be the year of the backlog then
Fuck me...
2019 is going to be the year of the backlog then
That's a solid take... if you completely skipped all discussions of this so far.
If so, here, to bring you up to speed:
Well at least I can buy it on the Windows Store. Not a sentence I thought i'd be typing in the year of our lord 2019.
They actually are asking me to pay more, though. Lots of key selling sites, including official ones, had discounts on preorders and new games. Epic Game Store ensures this doesn't happen. Division 2 was the first PC game I've bought at full price on launch in a long ass time.
EGS costs me money.
(I didn't buy Division 2 from EGS, though, and wouldn't have bought it at all if not for the social pressure of playing with friends. Fuck EGS.)
Damn, so its a true gamble for the to see if they are really eliminating sales or fully profiting over wide distribution.
Honestly, if the moneys right, the smart choice is to take the check. Every sale after the exclusivity period is only going to put you over. And we're seeing alot of Devs taking that money so its gotta look nice.
What are you the lead developer of so I can be sure not to buy it?
Enjoy your PC console wars for the next 5 years.
Again its super fucked up Durante of all people has to explain to devs/consumers why this is bad but here we are as usual.
Again its super fucked up Durante of all people has to explain to devs/consumers why this is bad but here we are as usual.
Way to come across as an arsehole. And yes, what are you a lead dev on so I can avoid giving you my money.
Subpar feature set and anti consumer tactics are barriers of entry for me.
But yes I'm sure Ubisoft are Take Two were really hurting for money. After all, RDR2 and AC:O only sold dozen millions of copies.
Internal studios and directly producing the game is not a thing anymore?
Gotta love our ala Carte future where if you want an individual product you need 18 different avenues of access for these products.
oh, I'm gonna deal with it alright. This is why I have a ps4. used copy it is.
I would assume all of the games Gearbox is announcing next week are EGS timed exclusives
I don't play games on PC so I'm not attuned to Steam (don't even have it installed) or GOG or anything, but is so many people's disappointment simply down to having one more launcher/store on their desktop? Does it take a massive amount of space or something? Genuinely wondering if I missing something.
You don't get it...
Microsoft isn't publishing Outer Worlds. Outer Worlds is being published by another publisher.
Epic is doing a fine job at splitting the developer and gamer community. Thank you Tim Sweeney for your fine and non greedy contributions to gaming! /s It's one thing to offer a higher cut to developers which is something all storefronts should do, including Steam. But timed exclusives should not exist in the gaming industry.
Let the developers make the decision as to where they want their games to end up and don't force it on them with stupid contracts promising money up front, that is anti-consumer and anti-competitive.
Let the developers make the decision as to where they want their games to end up and don't force it on them with stupid contracts promising money up front, that is anti-consumer and anti-competitive.
That's not a loaded image at all.That's a solid take... if you completely skipped all discussions of this so far.
If so, here, to bring you up to speed:
I'm really curious about how much money theyve spent total on all these exclusives. This stuff is really going to add up, especially with bigger titles.
I'm more worried about my data being put onto a Chinese server courtesy of Tencent.
EGS fanboys and steam's detractors are always quick to point out that there are a whole host of games that you can only get on Steam. But many of those are there simply because it was convenient for the developer. I'm also referring, though perhaps not wording it well, in particular, to third party exclusivity. I have less moral objection to first party exclusivity, where games are often made with some degree of responsibility on the part of the publisher to advertise their own platform.
It's not really a siren... it's a gigantic bag of money. Publishers aren't selling their game to customers on EGS, they're selling exclusivity to EGS. Game sales don't matter in this equation. It doesn't matter if people actually buy the game on EGS, at least not to the publisher.
That's what some individuals apparently want, so we have our own platform wars and shit.
What a stupid way to label people, as if the developers also don't play games or are part of the same communities.
Yup, and people can't use the "Take 2 said putting exclusives in the Epic Store is not good business" card because the Private Division deal shows that was bullshit. It's happening, and it probably will be permanent exclusive, even.
I would argue that the vast majority of complaints are leveled at Epic and not the developers, though. It's the developer's prerogative to take a better deal if they so choose, but it's Epic that's at fault for trying to circumvent legitimate competition this way.
I mean, I'm not happy with this, but is not worth getting worked up every new exclusive pops.
This is now the PC market and is not going back anytime soon.
Maybe a tiered cut? Its just a flat cut right now right? i mean, besides the newly implemented mega sales one. The majority of games on Steam are single player and dont need leaderboards or matchmaking or cheat detection or workshop yet they still get charged the same right? If thats not the case already it should be changed.
Yes, and they're doing it because they're being paid.
yep yep!
Epic is really shaking stuff up, all that Fortnite money
I don't know guys. I may drop my standards for some of these.
I can deal with the sub part features if it is just a single player game like Control.
I can deal with the sub part features if it is just a single player game like Control.