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Bandai Namco Rep on PC store exclusivity
- Thread starter Chairmanchuck (另一个我)
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If the EGS bag was big enough, Namco (or any other company for that matter) would make it exclusive. Lets not kid ourselves.
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I am kinda disappointing. The meltdown over EGS Elden ring exclusivity might have broken this website lol.
This is the old "everyone is a prostitute for the right price" mindset, and no, not everyone is willing to take a payout to throw away their ideals.
Things change all the time - unlikely but nothing is safe until the game is out.
It can still happen. Epic just have to make the "right" offer.
And if Bandai Namco was big enough with many GaaS games, they would make its own store like EA or Activision.
I feel like FFVII Remake is the prime contender but that is still a ways off. Maybe 2021?
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Hopefully Sony or Microsoft snaps it up as a console exclusive, so the meltdowns can still happen.
they sell Steam Keys for that sweet 100%
I always prefer buying directly from the publisher/dev for that exact reason.
I'm confused, Epic doesn't require exclusivity for their store right? So shouldn't that mean they just put their games on both?
At least according to the DARQ developer, they tend to turn devs away if they don't agree to exclusivity. The exception is really big games like Cyberpunk and Vampire the Masquerade 2 that they'd be crazy to not have on the store regardless of exclusivity.
I'm pretty sure the brand was what's important. They probably weighed the options and came to the conclusion that it's more damaging to them to all of a sudden switch things up and just be on EGS. Would have to spend all that extra money on PR
For the vast majority of games out there Epic will demand exclusivity. Or in a lot of cases, "not on Steam". Unless you are extremely huge like Cyberpunk 2077 which can force Epic's hand.
Tales of Arise has listed Steam on its Japanese website since it was announced so theres no real question about it.
IIRC Elden Ring and Little Nightmares 2 are the only currently announced namco games that havent used Steam logos in any of their advertising yet.
PS4, X1, PC
Haha, absolutely agree. I would hvae gone insnae and probably bnaned for life.
First and foremost, Epic wants exclusives on their store in other to hurt Steam and other stores. There will be times where very highly anticipated titles will have a release on EGS as well as other stores like Cyberpunk 2077 and Vampire Bloodlines 2 because 1) they gotta make their store look legit and not just a store that pinches games and 2) they'd be dumb enough to wave off those games since I'm sure there are customers who were probably sold on EGS and would want to get those games there.
I'm sure if Epic Games will allow it, you'll see Bamco games on there too. It's just Bamco does not want to be on the Epic Games Store only.
i mean everytime a company has done pr saying we are staying where we are currently their next game has been egs exclusive, soooooo
That's good to hear.
I was honestly suprised that Epic didn't manage to take Double Fine's just recently released RAD, with it being an Unreal Engine game, that Tim Sweeney/Epic tweeted about before the release. Because of that, and how other games have been pulled from Steam just before releases, I didn't preorder this, like I otherwise do with Double Fine's games.
But this explains it, and I like what I read. It's good see that some companies state they think in broader terms then Epic's short terms fixes/moneyhatting.
I was honestly suprised that Epic didn't manage to take Double Fine's just recently released RAD, with it being an Unreal Engine game, that Tim Sweeney/Epic tweeted about before the release. Because of that, and how other games have been pulled from Steam just before releases, I didn't preorder this, like I otherwise do with Double Fine's games.
But this explains it, and I like what I read. It's good see that some companies state they think in broader terms then Epic's short terms fixes/moneyhatting.
But they already do. They have released games on every platform barring the company specific ones like Origin and Uplay. Not their fault Epic only takes exclusives as of right now.
They do and that's the problem
It's fine if it's released on EGS and other stores but Epic don't want that
Excellent. They get it.
Extremely large games like Cyberpunk get excluded from this rule though.
They do. That's kind of what started the whole Darq story. Epic told the dev: Exclusive or you don't sell on our store.
Extremely large games like Cyberpunk get excluded from this rule though.
I don't really understand how one example from a small indie game, alone, gets expanded into "everything that isn't the most anticipated AAA game of the past two years"
A similar comment was made when the Assault Android Cactus dev (I think) contacted them.
They are only interested in exclusives right now. But they obviously don't want to miss out on the top anticipated games, so they bend a little for those. Cyberpunk and VtM 2 are the only 2 examples right now.
What the heck is an android assault cactus and how is it comparable to Bandai Namco
Samurai Shodown devs turned down an exclusivity deal too.
Seems EPIC didn't realize SNK has even more chinese money than them. It's not just indie games is everything not AAA.
Would be cool if they share Cyberpunk and Vampire sales numbers by "launcher".
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Epic can't even afford the "minimum guarantee" type of deal they usually give, when it comes to Bamco handing them a year of exclusivity for a game like Elden Ring.
"Hey we'll need $300,000,000. Hello, hello, are you there Tim?"
If they did it everyone would up their asks.
"Hey we'll need $300,000,000. Hello, hello, are you there Tim?"
If they did it everyone would up their asks.
If you have to go through Steam to play their games, then no they aren't releasing them on everything available..