Rami Ismail tells Valve "sucks to be you" over Epic store exclusives
Nuclear Throne developer Rami Ismail says that Valve was simply "out-businessed" over Metro Exodus' move from Steam to the Epic Games store. In an interview with PCGamesN at Yorkshire Games Festival (which you can read in full here), the Vlambeer co-founder made fun of Valve's statement, which said that the game's move was "unfair" to consumers.
Ismail says that "the only thing I will argue in Valve's favour is that it was a game that was up from pre-order that was pulled, and I think being transparent about that messaging is important. But Valve arguing anything being unfair, with the position they're in, they just got out-businessed. I'm sorry, it sucks to be you."
Ismail goes on to discuss the change in the context of Valve's impact on indie development, saying "there's an entire generation of indie game developers that got wiped out because of an algorithmic change in Valve's recommendation algorithms and they said, 'Well that's just what the data said'. Well here's what the data said, it said that Metro Exodus is not on Steam because the deal Epic gave [developer 4A Games] was better. To call that unfair, but call all they do just data, it couldn't have been a funnier statement from that perspective."
https://www.pcgamesn.com/metro-exodus/rami-ismail-steam-epic
Woah.
More in the article.
Edit: added the second paragraph to add more context on Ramil position.
Nuclear Throne developer Rami Ismail says that Valve was simply "out-businessed" over Metro Exodus' move from Steam to the Epic Games store. In an interview with PCGamesN at Yorkshire Games Festival (which you can read in full here), the Vlambeer co-founder made fun of Valve's statement, which said that the game's move was "unfair" to consumers.
Ismail says that "the only thing I will argue in Valve's favour is that it was a game that was up from pre-order that was pulled, and I think being transparent about that messaging is important. But Valve arguing anything being unfair, with the position they're in, they just got out-businessed. I'm sorry, it sucks to be you."
Ismail goes on to discuss the change in the context of Valve's impact on indie development, saying "there's an entire generation of indie game developers that got wiped out because of an algorithmic change in Valve's recommendation algorithms and they said, 'Well that's just what the data said'. Well here's what the data said, it said that Metro Exodus is not on Steam because the deal Epic gave [developer 4A Games] was better. To call that unfair, but call all they do just data, it couldn't have been a funnier statement from that perspective."
https://www.pcgamesn.com/metro-exodus/rami-ismail-steam-epic
Woah.
More in the article.
Edit: added the second paragraph to add more context on Ramil position.
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