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Epic Games Store changes its refund policy to match Steam's, adds local pricing (on some countries)
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Quand je lis certains dont la contribution sur ce genre de threads ne consiste qu'à apporter leur grain à moudre dans le but de shitpost et de faire la GDC, j'me pose la question.
Cool to see they're already adding new features. Makes sense they're ramping up now after their big overhaul.
Again, the developers chose this.
They feel it's worth the risk, the whole point of the store is that developers want a bigger cut of game sales which means it'll be easier to be profitable.
It's going to take them adding more than a few features for me to support them and even than with the moneyhatting they are doing, I would rather wait the year or more to get the game on better platforms.
You don't see, from the customer perspective, the issue of a game developer being paid to make their game exclusive to an inferior store/launcher?
It offers games you want to play, presumably. Which is kind of the point.
Conversely, complaining about a storefront not offering value to consumers can force a storefront to add value.
If people hadn't "overreacted" with negative feedback they probably wouldn't have changed the policy you brainiac.
It seems the developers want a bigger cut of game sales, without any benefit for us as consumers. On the contrary: they are signing exclusivity deals with a company that tries to kill pro-consumer stuff like user reviews and 3rd party keystores. Do we actually have to be happy about this?
it's cute of you to think that there will ever be a time when 'unmoderated forums' are the only advantage that Steam's featureset has over Epic Store's
Nope not until exclusivity is done, I can easily ignore the epic store for games.
Vowing to never shop at a store again, accusations of moneyhatting, and Steam defending is not the same as constructive feedback about storefront features. Brainiac.
You actually think Epic would have done this without the massive overreaction?
Blindly defending epic is worst than any of the above and there's proof of the moneyhatting.
How this must feel for non-US Era:
I'm from Argentina, a country that's currently going through pretty hard economic times. I can tell you that I don't feel "saved" by Epic's changes (which are very minor in comparison to what I've been enjoying on Steam for more than a year now). But who cares, we all know most of the people applauding Epic on this don't have a horse in this race and just want more ammo for their Steam vs Epic console war-style bullcrap.
this was added in like a month, EPIC said they were going to add things in 2019.
It's probably not due to complaining, at least not this fast.
about the industry being better for those that make the games? Yeah, sure.
I mean, yes it can be an issue for customers, but if a game developer put it on a inferior store, it must be for a reason (and 99% sure it is money) which is better for them which is key here since they are indies (usually).
The moneyhatting is a fact developers have already admitted to.
Pointing out steam's services are superior is "Steam defending" and somehow a bad thing? lmao.
Ya think they just spontaneously came up with this in a couple of days? Or maybe they were evaluating, analyzing, and adjusting behind the scenes...
Well yeah, some people act in their own interests. You seem to act in Epic's own interest. Some people decided that moneyhatting, no features were not okay. If you like to bend to a huge company's will, go on. I'm not judging you.
Well yeah. What they announced aren't features. These are policies.
I 'm afraid you' ll be waiting for a long, long time. Sweeney has a strong opinion about features like user reviews and game forums.
Nobody is complaining about first party exclusives like Fortnite or Half Life being exclusive to their respective stores. If Epic wants to release their own published/developed games exclusively on their platform go ahead, But paying devs to cancel or delay their already announced steam releases (or in TWD's case already released) is a shitty move.
Not on the platform that I want, Steam. Which means I'll just skip the game.
Uhhh their website and their twitter accounts said they were doing this when this whole new initiative was announced, and here we are a month later and they're starting to make good. People really lose their minds at the thought of Steam having competition, huh?
*Launches with shit tier refund policy*
"Gets bad feedback*
*Changes shit tier refund policy*
"Actually, they were always planning to have that second policy, the complaints have nothing to do with it, they just launched with and defend the first policy for shits'n'giggles."
This is what epic stores stans actually believe.
"Gets bad feedback*
*Changes shit tier refund policy*
"Actually, they were always planning to have that second policy, the complaints have nothing to do with it, they just launched with and defend the first policy for shits'n'giggles."
This is what epic stores stans actually believe.
Wait, what? I don't remember that at all and I was pretty aware of the Origin launch
They announced they plan 2 refunds per account lifetime + one every NEW YEAR. That means that was the long term plan.
I take it that you only buy your Switch games digitally then, right ? Never physical, right ?
Good to see competition doing its job and forcing Epic to compete.
EDIT: Dammit was beaten to the punch!
EDIT: Dammit was beaten to the punch!
Galyonkin also explicitly stated on twitter that they don't wanna do it any differently because they worry about people abusing a refund policy.
BUT CLEARLY THEY WERE ALWAYS WANTING TO DO IT LIKE THIS
Why are you trying to insult me in another language ? do i know you or
What's ASTONISHING for me is people who actually think that to compete with a 15 old and well established service is perfectly fine to match its features when it started (and then EVENTUALLY improve things) rather than offering something that is genuinely better and makes the new thing feel like the more appealing option.
A aucun moment je t'insulte Kanozu. On se connait très bien alors ne fais pas l'étranger. :")
Nah, they were working on it. :o)