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'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You do realize those are usually exclusive for only a year, right? So EGS pays them out for a year of exclusivity and then the devs are free to launch on steam and others.

The thing is, often if they don't get that first infusion of cash from a deal with EGS (or another investor) they don't get to complete or even launch the game at all. So it never would make it to the other markets.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Usually by the time they've made it off EGS, I've forgotten they exist. There's been many sequels to games I loved that I forgot existed because of this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Or the EGS phase was just glorified beta access like Hades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Same, after a few years you see them show up on steam and all the reviews are

"All my lobbies are empty"
"It takes 30+ mins to get into a game with 2 other players"
"I'm only getting matched against bots"