• Obsidian's "The Outer Worlds" spotted on Epic Game Store
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Guessing this was a decision made by Private Division (Publishers) and not Obsidian (Developers) with regards to the Outer Worlds. Anyways, Fuck you Epic Games, Fuck your shit store, and Fuck your shitty timed exclusivity deals.
It was not a Microsoft decision - it was a 2K/Take-Two decision. Microsoft said that any existing deals were mostly untouched when they purchased Obsidian. My thinking is that this was a long time coming, and that Microsoft was the one that pushed to have it available on the Windows store.
Actually, I'm not sure this is true. Tencent is primarily owned by a South African company called "Naspers".
And who has been spending hundreds of millions/billions in Africa over the last 10 years? China. it's very possible that they've hid the ownership of the company through multiple layers of abstraction and subsidiaries.
Tencent's $330M Epic Games investment absorbed 40 percent of dev.. Massive Chinese internet company Tencent snatched up 48.4 percent of Epic Games' available capital shares for $330 million last summer, giving the company the right to nominate directors to the North Carolina-based studio's board , according to Tencent's financial reports.
Maybe, but Naspers has been around for many decades. I don't buy that it's some kind of Chinese ploy to take over the gaming market without a source. Just cause a company is Chinese, doesn't automatically mean it's a pawn of their country.
I'll reserve judgment until we hear from the decision-makers explicitly. It could be a case of the publishers making the decision, like it was with Metro Exodus. In which case, the developers aren't at fault and shouldn't be to blame. If there were a way to buy the game and support the developers without the publishers seeing a single red cent, then I'd do it in a heartbeat. Without such a way, I'll have to weigh my options, but still no chance of a purchase so long as it's on the Epic store. But it could also be the developers who explicitly went to Epic and struck a deal, like it was with Phoenix Point. In which case, fuck the developers. I'll never buy Phoenix Point and encourage such behavior. Especially after having the audacity to publicly state "even if we refunded every single copy of our initially-crowdfunded game, we'll still be making a profit because of the deal we made with Epic."
I cWas Wasn't tencent going to launch their own gaming division in north america but because of the 40% epic buy they are just going all in for Epic instead? I mean I'd love for the chinese goverment to not be involved but things have just been shady as hell recently.
I'll just pirate those games while I wait to buy them on Steam on a good price. Business as usual, but I just want to let them know they can go fuck themselves.
Dev is responsible for giving the rights to the publisher. They are not devoid of responsibility. They willingly gave up control of distribution. Where it ends up being distributed is on them as well.
Doesn't that make sense though? Why risk creating your own platform when you can piggyback off a more established company? This happens all the time in business.
The obisidian you pine over doesn't exist anymore. Feargus's entirely family gets checks including his daughter who's still in elementary school. is owned by IGN, IGN's largest commercial contributor is Epic. You either have ethics, or you have games, take your pick.
People love to flaunt around the whole TENCENT IS A CHINESE GOVERNMENT SOCKPUPPET thing but it takes two seconds to look up the fact that the Chinese government is actively pushing back against Tencent, especially its games division. The chinese govt is putting a fuckton of pressure on them.
Trust me, I'd love for you to be right and for Epic launcher to be a great initiative for PC gaming, but I just don't know how I feel yet. And all this exclusivity stuff is leaving a bad taste in my mouth. It's almost like a new console exclusive war but on PC which sounds so dumb
I meant this more in a way of not blaming the people who were creatively responsible for the game. It was out of their control and I consider them the developers moreso than the marketing or financial department.
The notion that Feargus is beholden to anyone is woefully naive. He literally does what the fuck ever he wants up to and including violating california labor law when felt like it.
This isn't what I'm saying though. I don't think it's a great initiative, but I also don't just believe it's a malicious Chinese initiative.
Well if anything I can thank Epic for saving me over 200$ of games that I wanted to buy this year. I will just wait a year for TOW, and get the patched up version in GOTY edition.
I don't think it's a malicious Chinese initiative but I do think it's shady as hell and is actively hurting the PC games market as a whole. I'll admit that I'm kind of naive and just acting like tencent is a big bad guy but I guess I only have that opinion from all this exclusive bullshit. I wouldn't think that Epic would just do this on their own. But I could be and probably am wrong
i've said it 4 times, i'll say it again, and i'll say it every time it comes up the epic games store is a greedy curse and a stain that deserves to be washed off and forgotten. the only two things it has going for it are the exclusives and the bigger revenue share, the latter being available on other stores (those being itch.io and GOG) - the revenue share is still debatable, sure, but exclusives do nothing for competition. the only thing these exclusives are accomplishing is forcing people to use what's probably the most consumer-hostile platform available outside of google's Stadia fuck the epic games store and fuck the publishers that take their bribes
I love Epic!
I wonder what steam and by default Valve are going to do about these developments? https://youtu.be/RktX4lbe_g4
All these Epic Store exclusivity headlines are making me feel sick. I wanted to play this game so bad, damn. Time to wait another year.... Fuck you Tim Sweeny, fuck you Epic Store and fuck you Tencent.
aren't you a fp employee
This is the kind of shit that makes not care about games anymore.
Sources please.
I am late to the party but the funny thing about this image is that all of those sites are selling steam keys
Tencent cuts marketing budget for games amid China crackdown
He was against the Epic store as soon as he was elected
Maybe this pushes Valve into (proper) game development again? If not, I can’t wait until the gaming market crashes again.
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