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Alan Wake 2 dev won't speculate on Steam release, but 'hope gamers find it on the Epic Games Store' (dotesports.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Most of my gaming friends refuse to buy games from Epic or use their launcher.

They'd rather wait for the timed exclusive to expire and buy the game on their platform of choice.

I've bought maybe 2 games on Epic because a friend wanted to play it with me at launch. It was Borderlands 3.

But never again, I finished BL3 solo seeing as my friend played with me about 3 times and he never touched it again.

I do collect their free game every week, my Epic library is quite big now and I may play a game from there time to time but I hate the idea of a platform exclusive.

I'd like to know if they are making more money with timed exclusives seeing as nearly nobody I game with wants to buy from them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd like to know if they are making more money with timed exclusives seeing as nearly nobody I game with wants to buy from them.

no, it's reported that they are working on full loss right now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I remember reading somewhere that they are not making money on their store, losing it.

Wondering if a timed exclusive brings in more cash compared to their normal sales, even if it's still a loss.

The free games can't be helping out either.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

i will use epic the Moment they drop their exklusivity crap. before that Not a chance even if the exklusives are great

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Steam doesn't care if a developer uses multiple store fronts.

Epic does care about exclusivity.

I like to to use the platform that gives me the most choice.

[+] [email protected] -24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Steam is being sued for including a clause that games can't be sold on other platforms for less than they're sold for on Steam, guess they do care about games being sold on other platforms!

If you finance a project, it's pretty much a given that you'll expect something in return. Valve doesn't finance third party project, Epic does, hence the exclusivity deals and it's not as if we could blame devs for wanting to have guaranteed income instead of relying on word of mouth, good reviews and streamers to sell their game and recoup their investment. It's basically choosing between having a job that pays you hourly vs day trading, sure you might make more day trading, but you might also end up losing everything because things don't go your way.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Most Favored Nation: you can list anywhere else as long as the price isn't lower then here

Exclusive: you can't list anywhere else

I know which I prefer.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

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