So that Playstation owners wouldn't be able to play it? That sounds great!
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PCGamesN: Suite of upcoming titles, including The Outer Worlds, launching exclusively on Epic Games Store (Unverified Rumor, Tweet was Deleted)
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Yeah, when your store basically offer the same features as pirated games, people would just choose to pirate.
It's not news embargo yet. They were supposed to post that tweet later after the official announcement, probably at Epic GDC panel.
yeah but that takes effort
they clearly want to put as little of that as possible into this venture
I'm pretty sure this is playing out in the TV/film streaming world too. The increasing number of competing services is causing people to just go back to pirating shit instead of worrying about paying for 6 different subscriptions.
No because The Outer Worlds deal was made before the Microsoft deal so they have zero say in it
You'd think someone killed someone's dog judging by all the aggresively outraged reactions. Just vote with your wallet, people. I too am heavily invested in Steam with +2400 games and simply won't install another launcher, but these reactions feel almost personal. Jesus. And here I was thinking we PC gamers were the older, wiser bunch over platform warring. Obviously I was deluded.
Sure, ban everyone who doesn't share your corporate fanatism, lmao.
Be happy this will probably make Valve start operating on sth a bit closer to human time. Yes, competition. It's personally what I'm looking forward to. I will buy The Outer Worlds whenever it comes to Steam, and I sure won't hate Obsidian with the fury of a thousand suns for not wanting my money meanwhile. It's their own choice to make.
Is it not?
Sure, ban everyone who doesn't share your corporate fanatism, lmao.
Be happy this will probably make Valve start operating on sth a bit closer to human time. Yes, competition. It's personally what I'm looking forward to. I will buy The Outer Worlds whenever it comes to Steam, and I sure won't hate Obsidian with the fury of a thousand suns for not wanting my money meanwhile. It's their own choice to make.
I'm more surprised nobody seems to care that a "news site" is basically being paid to write pro Epic stories.
that's because we aren't surprised about that either. Just look at eurogamer, rock, paper, shotgun, and youtubers like jim sterling.
Not really comparable situations. Paying for subscriptions is very different to installing a free launcher. Essentially nobody who wanted to play Apex Legends said, "Oh, no, I have to install Origin, however will I cope?" We're talking about an essentially non-existent entry barrier here.
You are a troll and have shown that on multiple of these threads now.
Unfortunately not. Obsidian nor Microsoft likely have any control over this. Take Two is the publisher so they probably have full control over where the game is being sold. Hopefully Microsoft will obtain publishing rights for a sequel though and it'll come to other stores.
(Unless you live in China then fuck you!)
(Or Korea! Fuck you!)
(Or play on Linux! Fuck you!)
Steam doesn't give a shit about this. They only care about money hats when they are involved with new, growing platforms like VR. This here only bothers gamers like me.
The UK is in a state of arrested development. No country or business is giving them a break. The EU not getting such a benefit is a shame but that still doesn't invalidate the majority of countries getting a price break. In aggregate consumers as a group still experienced a discount.
tbh you're better off waiting a year anyway. Pillars 2 got so much better after patches it really is usually better to wait. =/
He's been on the steam sucks bandwagon for years. Recently, he made a "screw steam" video and he has not said anything bad about epic's practices even after the news that epic's been spying on steam customers who have epic installed.
I think he became an anti consumer influencer, whatever the reason behind it is.
Features, prices, data safety or even purchases safety arent a non-existent entry barrier.
You know, I was really positive about the future of PC gaming but lately I'm not so sure. And I never would've guessed it would be Epic of all companies — not Microsoft or Facebook — to make things feel so grim.
Cable services called, they want their cannibalizing practices back.
I'm not trying to be. I'm genuinely positive about Epic's movement into the space, and Steam isn't even putting up a fight.
I will admit that the second quote on there was a bit mean-spirited but the visceral responses to this news over and over seem crazy to me and I might have overreacted there because of it.
That is because when Valve decides to support region they go after currency and payment methods too, they don't just convert price in dollars.
Yes, they said it would come to Steam, someone posted it timestamped earlier in this thread. It seems like it could have been all Take-Two who have retroactively made liars out of Cain and Boyarsky, rather than them lying about it in the video. Or as someone else pointed out they said it would come to Steam, not when.
Calling for disingenuous trolls to get banned isn't at all calling for everyone who supports the EGS to get banned. Also, being able to get a certain product from exactly one source at exactly one price is the opposite of competition.
I don't follow your logic. Let's say that half of new releases skip steam this year, with the prospect of even more in the following one. Are you saying they wouldn't mind?
Yeah this is what I was getting at earlier. If you're a news site, how in the world are you letting Epic dictate when you can release the news?
NDAs.
Epic sent the news to them to be released on xx.xx.xxxx at 9:00. If you break it, they wont send you more news like that.
We've been spoiled these past 6-7 years. Our platform is more flexible, open, accommodating and easier to use than ever. DRM free is now a reality after the dark days of the 7th gen. Games for Windows live is still something I haven't forgotten and I'm not the only one. UWP is finally fading after the headaches that caused.
We just don't want to be forced to use a launcher/store that we don't want to use for games that we're accustomed to having available on multiple stores/launchers.
Because all we need is Valve also getting in the moneyhatting game and then completely breaking smaller stores like GOG and itch.io too, right? Then they will be 'putting up a fight'.
This is something that's always overlooked when people demand Valve "compete" with Epic. There are smaller stores who can't compete at all and they're going to be the immediate losers.
Putting a fight is console war shit.
Who cares about which billionair company makes more money ?
All I want is to have a choice where I buy my games.
Scenario 1:
Game X releases on 3 stores.
All 3 stores then start doing different pricings to entice people to buy from their store.
End users benefit from this COMPETITION obviously.
This scenario is competition.
Scenario 2:
Game X is paid by store nr.3 to only release on that store.
No pricing wars. No end user benefit because no competition is happening.
So can you people saying this is good competition tell me, how exactly is this competition, and since competition is good for end user, how is this good for me?
Seen people go how it's competition and good, but always leave it at that, not going into the actual argument at all.
Game X releases on 3 stores.
All 3 stores then start doing different pricings to entice people to buy from their store.
End users benefit from this COMPETITION obviously.
This scenario is competition.
Scenario 2:
Game X is paid by store nr.3 to only release on that store.
No pricing wars. No end user benefit because no competition is happening.
So can you people saying this is good competition tell me, how exactly is this competition, and since competition is good for end user, how is this good for me?
Seen people go how it's competition and good, but always leave it at that, not going into the actual argument at all.
You know, this honest assholery I can accept. Even appreciate. It's the disengenuous bastards that grind my gears.
Anyway, I fully expect Epic to moneyhat every single interesting game coming out this year. Control next. Nobody can say no to Fortnite bucks, apparently. (Dumb who offers, dumber who doesn't take!)
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