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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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I dread to think about what E3 will be like
2019 is just a total fucking write off at this point.
Welp no chance Epic Store isn't my nod for Fail of the Year
Tim and Sergey have quickly cinched my personal most hated personalities in gaming for sure.
2019 is just a total fucking write off at this point.
Welp no chance Epic Store isn't my nod for Fail of the Year
Tim and Sergey have quickly cinched my personal most hated personalities in gaming for sure.
Companies being anti consumer
Consumers being anti company
I'm not condoning it, but it seems like a natural reaction
Well yeah, something that affects them personally is going to take the priority, regardless if it looks silly or not.
Glad to see more competition in the PC platform space. Also happy to see developers getting what I assume to be good minimum sales deals for the exclusivity window.
Funnily enough, this "client" you mention has less spyware than Epic Store.Very disappointed to hear that these games have all been delayed a year, however I'm liking Epic's new spyware-free web client and pricing model for early access:
This is obviously a joke, not an endorsement or promotion. Don't pirate games.
I wonder if the games going to the Microsoft Store will be on Game Pass, and if there will be new hardware to run RTX games at high frame rates by the time Control is released on Steam.
It's also one thing to be paying for exclusivity, but another to be paying companies specifically to not do business with one another store. I wonder about the legality of that - it reminds me of Intel paying companies to not carry AMD hardware, for example.
And Steam really needs to add some kind of clause to prevent companies from advertising their game on the service for months, only to sell exclusivity to someone else.
Alan Wake made it to PC because of Steam. It wasn't the PC version, just the Steam Version.
edit: on you mean launch date, yeah they always came later.
Epic must be shelling out so much cash. Fortnite will probably allow them to keep doing it for a good while but I wonder how long they'll keep doing it because there's no way I can see this as a good business strategy.
Matching the basic features Steam had 10 years ago would be a decent start.
What needs to be made clear here is that we aren't talking about a platform that doesn't support some obscure features.
We are literally talking about something that's far worse -- in terms of feature set -- than fucking Games for Windows Live was in 2008.
It's simple, offer a service with features comparable to, or surpasses, Steam while not being spyware.
I'm starting to feel like an idiot for spending a huge sum on my new PC. Good one Tim Sweeney... so much for him being such a friend to the PC gamer.
I guess its consoles now and steam sales in the future. Fuck this is so upsetting. I now actively hate fortnite for what it's allowed Epic to do.
What's the competition of store exclusives in the PC space again? I'm talking for consumers, not developers. At least Steam isn't spyware.
I guess its consoles now and steam sales in the future. Fuck this is so upsetting. I now actively hate fortnite for what it's allowed Epic to do.
What's the competition of store exclusives in the PC space again? I'm talking for consumers, not developers. At least Steam isn't spyware.
Gabe Newell:
"In general, we think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. For example, if a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the U.S. release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable. Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customers use or by creating uncertainty."
I do sadly think piray will increase when it comes to games being EGS exclusive until they are released on Steam. It's not something I want to happen as piracy is not a good thing, but Gabe is on point with that quote.
"In general, we think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. For example, if a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the U.S. release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable. Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customers use or by creating uncertainty."
I do sadly think piray will increase when it comes to games being EGS exclusive until they are released on Steam. It's not something I want to happen as piracy is not a good thing, but Gabe is on point with that quote.
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Your natural reaction to something you don't like is to steal?
Some of yall are fucked.
Man, I hate the EGS and what it wants to do to PC gaming but FUCK this talk of Piracy. You pirate something, I hope you get fucking cryptoware that spreads to your weekly back up drive in addition to your boot and storage drives.
I was wrong before. The devs/publishers don't force us to buy anything and we owe it to them not to steal from them. Add that to my other post.
I was wrong before. The devs/publishers don't force us to buy anything and we owe it to them not to steal from them. Add that to my other post.
Even if the devs do most publishers dont .. For a publisher a game is an investment and they expect returns on it, whether its come from Steam or EGS or some other deal ..
Steam is not, nor ever has been a monopoly.
Epic could offer the games at a discount over Steam where devs get the same total revenue comparatively and generate interest in their store organically as cost conscious gamers check it out. This achieves the same goal while also generating goodwill with the customers.
I'm sure there's a middle ground between defending Epic and using PC Master Race/Steam fanboy memes.
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Is this why Gabe teased a new Half Life game? I guess Valve actually has to start making games now.
I've commented on the arrogance that Epic have been running with recently before, and moreso then the moneyhatting the one thing that is illustrating that most is their refusal to acknowledge peoples expectations when it comes to well established features, ones that Steam have had for over a decade in some cases.
If you're gonna irritate the shit out of people by forcing them onto your platform, you had better make damn sure it is at least competitive with their preferred platform, instead of just giving them the finger and effectively saying "you buy on our platform or you don't play the game you want to play for 12 months". It stinks of punishment for wanting to use a different service.
If you're gonna irritate the shit out of people by forcing them onto your platform, you had better make damn sure it is at least competitive with their preferred platform, instead of just giving them the finger and effectively saying "you buy on our platform or you don't play the game you want to play for 12 months". It stinks of punishment for wanting to use a different service.
Meh, the devs (read: publishers) already get paid. We get the games (all fixed up with patches) a year later for 50% of the price. Not a huge issue imo. There's more than enough good games coming out on other non EGS platforms.
Pretty much this, Don't force users to use a subpar service due to the fact that you got exclusivity in terms of games. I mean really, what motiviation does EGS have in really making a robust service when all they just have to do is get exclusivity? Its bullshit really.
Of course, whoever made the decision. Publishers like Annapurna have already been placed on ignore on Steam.
They didn't say. Just "2.5x more than Metro Last Light", which in-itself is vague. Since it doesn't clarify if it's the OG, Redux, or both.
Can't wait until Google comes swinging with even bigger piles of cash.
Consoles need some competition.
Consoles need some competition.
....y'all do know that obsidian have nothing to do with this, it was their publisher
No conceivable half life game would change anything about this situation.
It wouldn't stop EGS from buying exclusives.
It wouldn't make devs and publishers stop taking exclusive deals.
It wouldn't keep consumers from going to the EGS for those exclusives.
This is a really weird red herring.
Welcome to the internet I guess? Where people have frivolously pirated all forms of media for decades. While it's obviously morally wrong, It's not exactly considered very taboo
That's a reference point, not a sales number. For that to have any value or meaning at all we would at least need to know what Metro Last Light sold on Steam.