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Ubisoft will bring more games to Epic Games Store, announcements coming in this year
- Thread starter Rodjer
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The Division 2's store page has already been pulled, so it's probably safe to assume Skull & Bones, Far Cry: New Dawn, Anno 1800, and the upcoming Trials game will release on Steam as planned.
The Division 2 easily would've sold enough to get Ubi the
I wonder if any of the games will be free on their store?
Without that Epic partnership, i probably would have never gotten the chance to play Subnautica, and now i'm hooked. Definitely going to buy their seque now
Without that Epic partnership, i probably would have never gotten the chance to play Subnautica, and now i'm hooked. Definitely going to buy their seque now
Wonder what kind of deal Ubisoft and Epic reached? I don't think that sacrificing exposure just to get a better revenue from an storefront seems like a very Smart Idea by how Ubisoft operates, unless their intention was to merely put pressure on Valve
Given that Ubisoft was always quite agnostic as to where they sold their games, this move is truly something.
For end users it might be just easier to go straight to Uplay to avoid the Epic Store.
For end users it might be just easier to go straight to Uplay to avoid the Epic Store.
It's a 80/20 split for the higher tier on Steam in fact (if the game brings more than 50M$ in sales) so that's still less that what Epic Games offers.
D'oh, you're right. Fixed. I got my wires crossed with 75/25.
Epic is buying their way to domination. Is there word on if you buy through the epic store you'll still need to open up Uplay and use that in conjunction with it?
Of course you will. So hope you like your mediocre launcher on top of another mediocre launcher.
Then there's still no reason to buy it on anything but Uplay. That's pretty annoying lol
If there's one benefit Epic has over Steam (EDIT: for consumers anyway) it's that the games on their store only actually require the launcher to download the games. The launcher doesn't actually need to be used to launch the games. Technically it's possible for developers to do this with Steam as well, but generally they use Steamworks as DRM.
I even dread to think how much money Epic would need to convince Ubisoft to not release that game on Steam.
For every year valve is not releasing a new single player game I'll buy something on the epic store. that will teach em.
True, though as KillLaCam pointed out above you can just buy it on UPlay and avoid the issue altogether (which is what I'll be doing).
That would require Rockstar to work with outsiders, they don't like that, they'd try and make it Social Club ONLY first.
If that is what it takes to release it - fine with it
But to announce and make a store page only to remove it and make it exclusive is scummy
(Though prefer rockstar have their own store over Epic lol)