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Yep lot of focus is on Steam, but GOG has been affected by exclusivity deals too. If that is lifted than other launchers like GOG benefit too with Control being available for it too.
Oh we know it’s there. Finding it isn’t the problem, giving epic any money, is.
I’m happy Epic spent their v-bucks on Remedy and let them use it to fund a masterpiece. But when it comes to distributing it, I think a quick visit to the pirate bay is a lot easier to stomach for a lot of people.
And for me it’s not even a principled issue. I just hate using their store. I’m not saying they need parity with the weird social media aspects of Steam (though I have come around to dropping comments on friends’ achievement notifications on the library page). But let me see reviews and let me refund and some other basic stuff I’m forgetting.
Yep, played the yar har edition, it was a pretty good experience up until a major bug prevented me from picking up a key in late game. It’s a good game notwithstanding that, I’d be happy to pay for it - on my platform of choice, where my library has been since before the Epic Game Store even existed.
I recently picked up Dead Island 2 legally because it released on Steam, and it had some bullshit Epic software trying to install in the background to verify your account. Thankfully you can disable it from config.ini, but it still asks you to log in every time you start the game. That’s some fucking shameful shit, and I would be more concerned about Steam’s near-monopoly status on PC gaming if they tried half the shit Epic did, but until that day comes, I’m happy to give steam my money because their platform puts the least bullshit between me and the game, by far.
EGS is terrible as a store. You can only give reviews only when it asks you to, even then, it is not a free-form review. Your reviews are not visible to the customers. The entire store is designed to bamboozle the customer into buying a shitty game. No wonder most people refuse to use the store to buy games.
No thanks, I’ll wait for a Steam or GOG release.
I think I’ve seen Alan Wake 2 on Epic while I go and claim the free games.
For some reason I can’t find my credit card when I’m using the Epic Games Store app. I wonder why. Could it have anything to do with Tim Sweeney having a grudge against Linux gamers?
I didn’t even know it was having a PC release until like…a game award thing of some kind and was floored that I didn’t hear about it. Realized it was on Epic and wasn’t gonna be a wider release and lost interest.
My 2¢ on the issue.
- Epic pays you, ever though what are they actually buying from you as Dev/publisher. Epic store don’t make the mony Epic is spending… that’s because sales on the Epic store aren’t even their goal. EGS is basically a huge advertising for Fortnite, games published over there are accessory to the ever present/default Fortnite’s events/promotions. On steam page for GTAV you see ads for Saints Rows, on Saints Row’s Steam page you see ads for GTAV. On EGS Fortnite is always omnipresent: the goal over there is not gamers buy as much games possible, but rather yell “hey! Free stuff? We have free things… Also Fortnite!”. It’s a black hole where wallets are swallowed by Fortnite.
- “EGS vs. Steam-monopoly” is a totally faked presumption. What we see is that quite the opposite is happening. Exclusivity damages more all small and big competition around Steam: itch.io, GoG… but also bigger stores from Ubisoft and EA (which saw fair amount of investment in their own PC store in the pre-EGS era and now are mostly forgotten). Basically EGS is digging a more monopolistic trajectory for Steam. Indie are wondering “why should I publish on itch/GoG if Epic pays me?”
“I hope they’ll find my diamond ring in the dumpster out back”
After Outer Worlds flopped thanks to largely attractinga PC User base and then releasing on Epic, I thought devs weren’t dumb enough to do that.
