I'll sooner buy it on the Windows store before giving Epic a dime. I hope Valve has an answer for all this exclusivity. Its eventually gotta start hurting their bottom line if all these big titles are aren't coming to Steam for a good while.
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The Outer Worlds, Control, Dauntless, SpellBreak, The Cycle, Ancestors & More Coming As Timed Exclusives To Epic Games Store; TOW also on MS Store
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Lock down the publishing contracts. Drop the cut to 18%. Incentive publishers to stick with Steam. Valve is sitting on a massive pile of money and doing nothing with it. Epic is sitting on a massive pile of money and doing something with it.
Goodbye Obsidian, it was great while it lasted.
Those comments do not help, people.
Those comments do not help, people.
I'd think this was a joke coming from an admin but I can never be sure. It has been explained countless times in countless threads even this one.
I apologize if that came off as an insult to anybody that was not my intention but it is kinda of frustrating seeing the greedy devs take on these deals , the same way I am sure its frustrating as a consumer to see the deals.
Also if I had a nice fat stack of cash from Epic I certainly wont be here posting on forums :)
The 12% instead of 30% cut means that even were Epic to start making these games available on third party key sites, there's no room for any discount in a store cut. So this shit is more expensive for consumers. Epic's feature set is smaller. There's no family sharing on the Epic store. No achievements. No in-home streaming. It's very barebones. EGS is just a crummy experience in comparison to Steam, and being strong armed into using it leaves a very bitter taste in my mouth.
That's a strange thing to tell me, given that I'm also a developer and a gamer.
I guess I'm just more of a PC gaming enthusiast than most developers.
It's certainly loaded with a whole ton of features that I enjoy using on Steam.
I'd have no issue at people taking jabs at a massive company like Epic because I couldn't care less about them, but yeah no there's a flood of people calling the developpers cheap cashgrabs or that kind of stuff on era (and elsewhere to be honest).
It has more to do with feature set. EGS does not offer as much as Steam. If EGS offered a comparable suite of features I doubt people would care as much, then again if EGS did offer enough they wouldn't need to moneyhat exclusives.
I'm only buying Epic Store games if they're announced as Epic exclusives upfront. If Borderlands 3 gets announced as an exclusive next week, sure, I'll get it. The Outer Worlds and Control had pages on Steam ready, so I'm not touching those until they actually show up there.
I don't even game on PC so I'm just browsing the thread to get a pulse on the situation, but even so... was this antagonism necessary?
Obsidian games will get my money where ever they sell. If they released as a Switch Exclusive, I'd be buying a switch right now.
Goodluck with your boycotts
Goodluck with your boycotts
The day EGS dies like GFWL, it will be glorious. Fuck Epic and fuck Swenney. In less than a year, that fucker is trying to screw other storefronts and the PC Space.
Are the games free? Because other than "We spending money so you can only buy them through us" there is no reason for me to invest in their ecosystem.
EGS is missing many features I use when I game on PC on Steam. I want the choice to buy it and play it on the launcher I desire.
Yeah, SteamVR, their internal network announcement, Steam Proton, Source2... Not doing anything
this valve loyalist bullshit is infuriating. INDEPENDENT GAME DEVELOPERS ARE NOT SWIMMING IN MONEY jesus christThat's a solid take... if you completely skipped all discussions of this so far.
If so, here, to bring you up to speed:
PC gaming is dead for me. Thanks for making it simpler Epic. Steam resurrected it, you're killing it.
From what I understand having talked to some folks, you would be straight up stupid to not take Epic's deal right now.
I'm sure gamers will handle this news with the gentle good humor and equanimity we've come to expect
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EAs entire catalog is exclusive and they have more pull than basically all of these times exclusives that that are picking up. Origin still isn't really a steam competitor. Not really seeing their point but they can keep on trying i suppose. People use their launcher for these exclusives and then nothing else.
Only error here is that EGS also have an offline mode and it supports region pricing (not all regions though) now:
Then fuck the publisher, that's fine. Sentiment is the same.
Outer worlds looks too good to pass. Sorry going to EGS. Unfortunate but I am a gamer first brand loyalty later. I gotta go where the games I want to play are at. Or better yet if the game performance is good then will skip PC and get it for Xbox one X. Atleast won't have to give EGS money.
no it really dosnt, its inconvenient in the sense it takes a little more amount of effort to open up and close the launcher. Yes you will lose some great steam features that epic does not have but the game will be completely playable start to finish without any real difference for most. I think this epic vs steam thing is getting really overblown and im sorry to say this but if your having problems with it now, expect it to get worse. Epics not going to let up and developers arent going to say no to the money, they are a business at the end of the day through and through.
It's not that, it's just that some people like all their games in one place rather than scattered about on other launchers.
I don't game much on PC either so in regards to myself, it's not really a hassle or annoyance, but I have a few PC friends who only buy games on Steam so they can take advantage of all the features and have all the games right there.
Hopefully everyone buys it on MS Store just to show them all.
I think you misunderstood me, I'm just trying to clarify confusion on the original posters comment. I meant that Epic moneyhatted their way to a one year exclusive deal and it'll also be available on the MS store, but after the one year point it WILL be on Steam. OP thinks that it's not coming to Steam at all.
Fuck Epic. I wish that was my sig.
It goes beyond that, it's also about Epic taking away choice. PC gaming was never about walled garden until these assholes decided to throw their moneybags into the game.
So, when in a year all those things will be available on EGS store, will you be fine with it ?Only error here is that EGS also have an offline mode now:
These were the same people mad and hand waving when I brought up Fortnite profiting off black creatives with no credit nor monetary compensation
Now they mad that Fortnite money is fucking up their game accessibility
PRIORITIES
I wasnt bothered by the EGS gameplan but I can see why it annoys some. Im not a huge PC gamer either but I have built up a nice steam collection and it does have nice features like the achievements or control mapping. IDK if EGS supports modding? So to see EGS barebones at the moment, you don't really know what the service will provide before you start investing in a collection with them.
Yes, because Steam is pretty much a monopoly on the PC market. If you're game is not on Steam, it pretty much doesn't exist and Valve can do wherever the fuck they want to devs because they have anywhere else to run. That's why devs are happy with EGS, Steam's been pretty crappy for most developers in the last few years and now they have competition.
That's great and all, but just today we lost the ability to play about a dozen games (on steam). I love all the steam features, but it won't matter if the platform doesn't have the newest games.
So that means consumers have to use inferior products just because they signed an exclusive deal?