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Borderlands 3 preorders on Epic Store have been suspended
- Thread starter LewieP
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Yeah, BL3 is one of most expesive games in other regions:
That's only 66% discount compared to US msrp after $10 discount. (Compared to Bloodlines which was 92%).
Statement from 2K.
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I'm confident BL3 will be back on Epic Store ...right after the sale's over.
This is just showing there is a clear division of what is good for consumer and what is good for developer/publisher. It isn't even AAA specific because you have Hades and Bloodline doing the same or similar shenanigans because they want only one thing and that's high income. I'm all for affordable profit splits but it's obvious that with this fiasco of a sale Epic's rushed and abhorrently ironic monopoly storefront is just not good.
Competition is great, but have it be on a storefront that doesn't break at the sight of a sale nor have it be with one that has exclusive rights to games which in turn means I can not buy that game elsewhere. Because of that scummy exclusivity when one of these games drops off I can't buy it anywhere else. I can't actually support the dev despite them or their publisher's shitty wants for an extra cheque. There just is no choice.
Competition is great, but have it be on a storefront that doesn't break at the sight of a sale nor have it be with one that has exclusive rights to games which in turn means I can not buy that game elsewhere. Because of that scummy exclusivity when one of these games drops off I can't buy it anywhere else. I can't actually support the dev despite them or their publisher's shitty wants for an extra cheque. There just is no choice.
Honestly how absurd is it that a mega corporation can just buy their way into the videogame market, despite not knowing anything about running a storefront?
Now I see why they don't even have a shopping cart. It's not that these things take time. It's that Epic's completely incompetent. And this ladies and gentlemen is your new overlord of the PC marketplace. They can't even figure out how to run a sale. All they can do is throw their money at publishers to stop others from selling games.
Now I see why they don't even have a shopping cart. It's not that these things take time. It's that Epic's completely incompetent. And this ladies and gentlemen is your new overlord of the PC marketplace. They can't even figure out how to run a sale. All they can do is throw their money at publishers to stop others from selling games.
Not going to happen until they start respecting customers.
It's ridiculous. They are obviously out of their league.
People who come into these topics about the EGS and try to defend Epic should be embarrassed. But hey, it's just another click, am I right? Competition!
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Was never a surprise to anybody paying attention. EPIC is using brute force tactics to enter the marketplace and sadly it is working despite all the screw ups.
Epic is incompetent indeed.
It seems they just put everything on sale without a greenlit from publishers, it's hilarious.
There is a reason why steam proposes a discounted price to publishers before every sale and then only if the publishers greenlit it or pick another price and greenlit it it appears discounted during the sale.
They know what they are doing, epic obviously do not.
It seems they just put everything on sale without a greenlit from publishers, it's hilarious.
There is a reason why steam proposes a discounted price to publishers before every sale and then only if the publishers greenlit it or pick another price and greenlit it it appears discounted during the sale.
They know what they are doing, epic obviously do not.
It is also not a surprise to anyone that had used the epic marketplace before https://www.resetera.com/threads/ep...oing-to-developers.84967/page-6#post-15635223 made that post in december of last year, showing how terrible the epic marketplace was, and it is obvious that they brought all their let us call it expertise? from the marketplace to the epic games store, since it shows given the absurd amount of screw ups the EGS has had since it started just half a year ago.
Well, I guess...when shopping carts are the Holy Grail then something like this might just be too much to achieve for mere mortals.
I'm honestly baffled how fucked up this whole situation is. Every time I think that Epic won't be able to top their new mess, they somehow manage to fuck up even more.
Who do they have to throw money at to make it happen? Seems to be the only thing Epic knows how to do.
They were so quick to make a lame exclusive deal and tell us how awesome the EGS is for PC gaming. Now nobody on PC can actually buy the game. Hahaha. Crazy.
I'm sure Epic will get it together any day now. 2K has to be disappointed, but it's hard to feel bad for anyone involved in this mess.
I'm sure Epic will get it together any day now. 2K has to be disappointed, but it's hard to feel bad for anyone involved in this mess.
Because they likely did not agree on the price of their not yet released games being lower than what they originally set them to be.
Thanks to this sale, many games' value had been diminished by a bit. It is more about the perception rather than the financials.
Well.... that was very informative statement.... /s
Still, the "honored at that price." does indeed suggest that the price is going up, so now I'm feeling sorry for the poor programmer that's going to have to crunch to duct-tape a solution to the store software. Ouch.
Also, to anyone saying it's hard to buy via VPN because of the local payment requirement: it really isn't and several people were/are already saying how they "the got a good deal from other regions". The biggest protection would be locking your account to that region, but this assumes people actually care about that. With the current feature set EGS has, making a second account is hardly a deal breaker.
Because EPIC doesn't own the games and thus does not have the right to change prices independently. This is not about money, it is about control. Epic has no right to alter the price of goods that they don't legally own. Only the owners of the IP could allow it at their pleasure. This is the difference with digital downloads.
Um, buddy. Epic isn't some random company that recently decided to get into video games.
Doesn't really matter does it? They obviously don't know shit about operating a store.
Well, that's fine. But your other post made it sound like Epic hasn't always had a seat at the video game table.
They did also have a spat with gears and took their game development to console. Only now are they really going PC centric again and that's mainly in a capitalist view.
Likely the store wasn't set up to do that yet which would explain the clunky ass way of just pulling games off the market during a sale is the option devs/pubs took. Store just aint ready for prime time yet.
Imagine having such a terrible back-end.
How nice of them to tell us that they just removed the game from the store after just removing the game from the store!
They removed the sale price from the BL3 store page hours before actually taking the game down. I'd wager EGS tried to find a way to exclude just BL3 from the sale after 2K told them to stop the discount and couldnt do it. So they took the whole thing down. Crazy.
Nor did Valve when they started Steam, plus for many years after. I don't understand why people feel Epic should measure up to such an immediate standard, when Valve had plenty of issues with Steam for numerous years.
There curation is done manually along with patch updates. No joke, they actually have to manually file in storefront additions and updates which can cause game updates to be delayed if a game needs to be added to the store.
Because it's 2019 and not back when Valve launched? If I launch a bank should I be okay to not have certain logical safety measures because "banks never had these x years ago?" No, the expectation is modern features for a modern setup.
What is epic offering consumers at this point? If they can't run a competent store, what are they offering devs? Creators? Literally anyone but epic shareholders?
They say great services are built on the shoulders of giants. Not here. At Epic, we do all our services from scratch. No hand holding.
Because it's competing against Steam now, not Steam from 2004. What a bizarre argument.
This is the hope. Cause Tim already said the consumers wouldn't be the focus and determine who "wins the war" if I am remembering his statement right.
I really hope we hear from Randy on this.
And epic had all those years to observe valve and learn from their mistakes. The guy in charge of the store has been datamining and trying to exploit steam for years for crying out loud! Why they should measure to such a standard is because most other stores now are at that standard. You can't expect the standard of 16 years ago to be good enough anymore. They decided to open a store, so they should realize that they will be judged against the market as it is right now. If a comoany decided to make their own video game console, and it was comparable in features to a C64, "why doesn't this have a lot of features that modern consoles have" would be a perfectly valid complaint.
i can see a publisher not wanting to devalue their game by cutting the price too deep, but retracting the game from the sale sounds like it's kind of useless..the historical low will still be there even if you take the game away from the sale, the internet doesn't forget
Geez guys why are you so vicious how can you possibly expect a shopping cart or a search function six months (read three years) after a store has opened. So unfair!
I mean it's not like Epic has every advantage. Nope. They are just a tiny upstart that has no idea about how digital distribution / PC gaming has grown over the past 15 years. We can't expect them to hit the ground running.
J/K in case it wasn't obvious.
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