2 months later
sales were poor, this is because of piracy obviously
The one thing I didn't want to happen with the rise of new online game stores is exactly what's happening :/
Granted, the majority of the libraries on each are on multiple stores, I just hope this doesn't become a more common thing in the future.
I feel sorry for 4A Games to be honest
Well. I probably wont buy it now.
-Not because i love steam that much, but because i don't want yet another game client clogging up my computer.
that potential ~18% extra revenue is too stronk
Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.
-Gabe Newell
I don't think this is about that cut at all.
If it was, they'd put it on both stores.
This is epic moneyhatting, it's a part of the clause, games have to be Epic exclusive for a year.
Yeah, because obviously it can't be sold on more than one store. That would be impossible. It's certainly a technical limitation and not Epic's continuing scummy bullshit.
This seems to have been a publisher decision, Epic probably paid them to have their game exclusive. It's nice to see Epic's idea of competition is using the console exclusivity model.
Just another nail in the coffin for this game. They've deviated way too much from what made metro 2033 good to appeal to a wider audience
I still feel like the best service which can break the unstoppable behemoth that is Steam is Origins with it's Premier service, you tempt with honey and not vinegar. All Origin has to do is convince bigger devs to add more games to it's Premier service and expand it's marketing and it'll see people flocking to it soon enough. It's crazy that EA of all companies has the most sensible and friendly idea to battling Steam.
Why try to be a good competitor if you can just throw money at the problem now you're the best?
It will return to the Steam store on 14th Feb 2020. But yikes so much for competition.
but we were only recently informed of the decision and given limited time to let everyone know.
Second company I've heard of a strict NDA, first was coffee stain, but here even the developers didn't really know
🦀Sales are gone🦀
steam is filling a natural monopoly spot and all these competing programs trying to get their own slice would be like a dozen different power distribution companies stringing all their lines to the same spots
Valve ain't amused, if you look at the games store page
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/229156/89755160-c601-4276-a4c0-fcd340365118/image.png
Am I the only one who is not angry about that? If this forces Valve to actually start working on Steam (or on ANYTHING that is not new cosmetics or vague VR prototype) I am all for it.
Go buy Titanfall 2 or Battlefield V on Steam. Can't? Only on Origin? Yeah, that isn't competition.
Want an actual competitor? GoG. They actually compete by selling many of the same games Steam does but they provide different service and benefits in the process, making it a competitive market.
According to RockPaperShotgun and Eurogamer, the game will sell for $10 less after the move.
They really didn't need to make it exclusive tho.
You're not understanding what is happening. This isn't competition, this is Epic strong arming the market.
fuck off epic
I used Epic's client for one reason and one reason only(Paragon), then they canned development of it and shut it down. Now I have to live with constant email notifications about how somebody tried
accessing my account, because Fortnite.
I know it's been said before but making exclusivity deals with developers in exchange for higher profits for the developer will not convince me to use your service when I already have to use 2-3 other
clients to play my games.
It seems like Valve needs to change its store contract/terms of service whatever so that you just can't use steam for free advertising.
This is like the 3rd game now that was on the store that got pulled for the same bullshit
Yes god forbid you install a program on your computer.
I really don't understand this statement. How many programs do you have installed? Why is one more such a big deal? I have uplay, origin, steam and battlenet installed and the world is still spinning.
Even if valve were to fix their revenue split, this is still Epic signing forcing exclusivity for the game, as this would have been the terms to get into the store
exclusivities suck
Shafting the customers to teach Valve a lesson eh? Yeah, I see that going down super well with people!
I won't be buying it, then. It was bad enough with promising indie games doing this, to have a highly anticipated game that's part of a series do this less then a month before release is just pathetic and absurd. I don't really have a problem with it being exclusive as such, it's the way it's been done, the reason for it and that the launcher seems to be worse than Steam that is the issue here.
the only thing Valve could work on in this case is throw more money than Epic at publishers to make them Steam exclusive instead. Steam is already a superior platform in term of service in about every single way compared to the Epic Store, despite its flaws.
I use the epic games launcher literally every day for UE4 dev but holy shit is it slow.
If they add reviews and make it a bit more responsive I don't have any issues with this, but strong arming people to use your bad client isn't helping
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