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Ashen, Announced as Coming to Steam and the Win10 Store, Now Exclusive to the Epic Store on PC *Update* Game Director Responds - Win10 Coming ASAP
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Oh, that doesn't concern me. I didn't know it when it was coming out and it's out now on Xbox One, which I have. So for me this is great and I plan to play it this weekend.
Odds are that Epic's store won't attract much attention outside of Epic's own titles. Nobody (as in relatively few people, not literally nobody) uses Discord to buy games. Nobody uses Uplay to buy third-party games. Nobody uses Origin to buy third-party games. The WinStore is appealing only if you identity to some degree as an Xbox player. Even CDPR has publicly regretted making Thronebreaker a GOG exclusive, and GOG is perhaps the most popular, first-and-foremost publisher-agnostic platform in the PC DD space that isn't Steam.
No developer or publisher would willingly take the risk of launching a new title on a brand new service, but bags of cash do a great job of mitigating it.
Oh, sure. The Steam page wasn't pulled, just updated to say "TBD" rather than "2018". I don't think attempts to secure hard exclusivity would have worked as even the developers/publishers aligning with Epic today are surely aware that the bulk of their respective audiences on PC are going to be on Steam, arbitrary delay or not.
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Coincidentally that's when I didn't the majority of my PC Gaming. My favorite PC games is Jedi Knight, which I don't recall needing a CD key.
Well, have fun I guess. I'll have to wait an unknown amount of time.
Yeah fuck this. If these games end up tanking, I really have no sympathy for the developers.
I feel like this would have been a smarter move if there were any reviews for the game anywhere. But as it is, I'm looking at a $40 price tag for a game nobody even knew was releasing anywhere near today, on a platform that has no user reviews. There's nothing on Metacritic. I don't see anybody's criticism of the game posted anywhere. I don't even know if this platform has a refund system.
Why would I buy this?
Why would I buy this?
It is on Game Pass. I guess they are delaying the Play Anywhere portion of it.
We don't know if it's timed exclusive. I hope it is, else it'd be a real disgrace. Currently, pc players can't play this game on Game pass(While it was announced that we could..) on launch day because of a deal with the Epic Store.
Some of you guys really throw around the "fuck you forever" so easily. This is why you claim to write off a whole storefront, that's paying more to it's devs?
I write off the store because it's paying for exclusivity. Pathetic.
Gonna be hard to justify buying pricey indie games like this one ($40) on a service with no user reviews and no automated refunds.
Looking at the Way Back machine for june 8th, the game was listed as a Play anywhere title.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180608052630/https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/ashen
Now it's not :(
https://web.archive.org/web/20180608052630/https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/ashen
Now it's not :(
Have you read my posts?
I was going to play this with a sub and on launch it's suddenly not coming to that service. That's a shitty move.
We shouldn't encourage shitty behaviour.
Dammit Epic. I'm not downloading your stupid launcher. I'm sticking to one DRM platform for my games, and it's the one that's been around the longest and I've invested the most time and money into.
This benefits no one. Your store won't take off just because you have enough money to attempt to will it to. This is like the video game equivalent of Bing, lol.
This benefits no one. Your store won't take off just because you have enough money to attempt to will it to. This is like the video game equivalent of Bing, lol.
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I apologize for my anti-steam rhetoric.
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Ironicaly the same people that shit on Steam would have never let it go if Steam did that same thing when it was first launched if they money hatted third party content like this. Even if that would have been 15 years ago.
Checked out their store/client and it is severely lacking in, well, everything really. So severely that it will takes years to catch up, if ever and that using it would impact my gaming experience. Moneyhatting is all they got right now and I'm not supporting that. Also for god's sake y'all should stop throwing around 'bigger cut' like it's an excuse for everything, trying to make us feel guily or whatever. Not working in this case because again, Epic/Tencent obviously know no consumer would use their store if we had a choice. Well actually I have a choice, too bad for the moneyhatted games, see you whenever or never.
Not too suprising after he sold out to Tencent, only way this was ever going to go. Shameless hypocrite.
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Usual steamthread discourse that's wholly acceptable on this forum as steam is not a platform.
Don't try doing this in nintendo threads tho.
Fuck the Epic Store.
As someone that lives in Brazil, their store already sucks from the start since it doesn´t let me use my own currency to buy games, and if I pay in dollars Ill have to pay something like the double or triple the price of what I pay here on Steam.
As someone that lives in Brazil, their store already sucks from the start since it doesn´t let me use my own currency to buy games, and if I pay in dollars Ill have to pay something like the double or triple the price of what I pay here on Steam.
Yeah with that Epic games launcher goes on my blacklist, at least the Windows store, Origin offer first party exclusives and moneyhatting 3rd party exclusives, on PC? Keep that shit on consoles, we haven't had to deal with that shit since the first incarnation of the Windows store and look how that turned out. Fuck it, not touching Epic launcher with a 10 foot pole.
Yeah fuck the thing that consolidated PC gaming and saved from being relegated to the past, while Epic was focused on 360 exclusives.
Yeah fuck the thing that consolidated PC gaming and saved from being relegated to the past, while Epic was focused on 360 exclusives.
I don't care about using another client at all, I have unlimited money. The issue is trash tier anti competitive practices from a guy who was screeching that PC is an open platform where choice matters and that MS wants to take it away only to once he's making insane money he decides to lock down the platform.
I refuse to believe that a functional adult wrote this post. Come on man. Be better.
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They have Fortnite and Chinese Overlord money, money changes things.
The Game Pass thing is really shitty considered how long Xbox has been promoting this game and how the fans were really looking forward to it.
It's business though.
Microsoft gotta be smarter than this going forward.
It's business though.
Microsoft gotta be smarter than this going forward.
It's incredibly ironic and I was the first to agree with Sweeny when he brought out his concerns regarding UWP. Guess the smell of money turned his spine to jelly.