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Epic Mega Sale is now live ($10 off every game priced $14.99 and up!) [Read Staff Post]
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Of course. I have no qualms with that. I certainly also think they have a lot of room to grow and improve, and genuinely hope they focus on moves like this rather than exclusivity; there's no consumer benefit in the latter.
Huh? Dozens of games release on Steam every week (granted only a handful are good). Some are pretty decent hits, like Mordhau or Risk of Rain 2. Some I'm personally just as interested in as any high profile exclusive EGS scooped, like DruidStone which just released. You can complain it's hard to keep track of all these things on Steam given the size of the store and deluge of releases, but you can't say there is no fresh exciting stuff coming to Steam all the time.
Yea you can play the game if you own it since it's just the uplay version.
But if you were to buy it the game needs to authenticate it and activate the game on uplay first...THAT is what's broken atm. So even if you buy it you can't play the game as the uplay activation is required.
EDIT: I tried this with Breakpoint. I got the store page AND the discount to show up. But it didn't let me buy it as it said there was a problem.
I presume that they'll have it fixed before the sale ends. But it just shows that people who are making conspiracy theories about them "conveniently"removing Ubi games are so off the point.
In my region:
Metro Exodus = 4$
Metro Redux = 2.24$
BL3 : 50$
Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines : 39$ in Epic 22$ in Steam for me
Heavy Rain: 10$
Beyond: Two Souls: 10$
Detroit: Become Human: 10$
Ashen: 14.24$
Control = $17
World War Z = $9
Darksiders III = $16
The Sinking City = $18
Walking Dead Final Season = $6
Metro Exodus = 4$
Metro Redux = 2.24$
BL3 : 50$
Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines : 39$ in Epic 22$ in Steam for me
Heavy Rain: 10$
Beyond: Two Souls: 10$
Detroit: Become Human: 10$
Ashen: 14.24$
Control = $17
World War Z = $9
Darksiders III = $16
The Sinking City = $18
Walking Dead Final Season = $6
They had very few games at launch though. This is a great time to do it imo, right before E3 and summer.
I wonder what they're cooking up to keep people spending, though. Sure, I'll take free games, sure, I'll (try to) take Control for $18, but they're basically training the audience to act exactly like what they criticized Steam did, if not more so.
And I don't mean this as a "gotcha", I don't care about them being hypocrites, changing their mind is good, I'm just not sure how sustainable that is, they're losing money in some of these sales from what others have said, Steam never loses money, at most they don't make any like with third party key sellers.
This. Would've done so much for the general opinion of the store. Still, better late than never.
oh yeah you quoted me before too. Sorry I didnt remember to reply. Thanks for the info :D
I'd like to think it's a recognition that there is a class of consumers who aren't going to buy things at full price. I generally consider myself such a consumer. Sales are what drive the majority of my PC purchases outside of very rare titles at full price (I think that my last one was No Man's Sky, and that only affirmed that doing so is a big mistake).
So, while some might think of it as "training", for whatever audience I fall into, it's accessing it in the first place.
This is absolute nonsense. How could it not matter that it's the dev who has to bleed themselves to compete with other devs bleeding themselves with deep discounts, i.e. what Steam has trained them to do, versus the store offering a store-wide discount that all developers only benefits from? Repeating a lie doesn't make it any more true.
The argument is if this is pro-developer and pro-consumer, which it is. Unarguably. Epic is not in the business of making pro-other storefront decisions, and it's absolutely not their responsibility to think of them at all; the same that it's not Sony or Nintendo's responsibility to think of each other except as competitors. And personally I find it deeply embarrassing that we're setting the bar at "benefit your direct competition or you're evil", but only for Epic.
Then Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Apple and literally everyone else with a storefront is far worse for developers and consumers, as they do nothing to help competing storefronts, and also force developers to discount out of their own pocket to compete with each other.
This is hilariousThat's what I think about the EGS and their mega sale.
Yes, it is a free account, with a couple of free games that I added before the Metro Exodus fiasco started.
But that's what they want, people making accounts and getting used to their store.
I'm willing to use the EGS once they stop taking games hostage.
These seem like decent discounts if you're interested in any of these games. The thing that continues to baffle me with the EGS is how they keep communicating everything about from the POV of developers first. Like, its nice and fine to advertise how great it is for developers that Epic is eating the cost of the discounts. But as a consumer, why should I really care? I get it- it helps the developers keep more of the cut from the presumed increased sales, but it just seems like every marketing point for the EGS is more aimed at developers and not consumers.
But if you're trying to appeal to me as a consumer in the long run, you've got to make the actual storefront feature competitive with Steam in addition to being price competitive. Epic's whole behavior since the start of the EGS has just been a complete turn off though for me as a consumer and it kind of upsets me how they're almost stoking animosity between developers and consumers by trying to paint themselves as some savior of PC gaming and if you're not supporting them then you must hate developers because you're in turn supporting evil Valve and their unfair 30% cut.
But if you're trying to appeal to me as a consumer in the long run, you've got to make the actual storefront feature competitive with Steam in addition to being price competitive. Epic's whole behavior since the start of the EGS has just been a complete turn off though for me as a consumer and it kind of upsets me how they're almost stoking animosity between developers and consumers by trying to paint themselves as some savior of PC gaming and if you're not supporting them then you must hate developers because you're in turn supporting evil Valve and their unfair 30% cut.
Yeah, I'd love to get some insight into their strategy here, but I'd surmise that they're hoping the sale acts as the "foot in the door".
The "first hump" is the biggest hump so to speak, so getting players to make an account and spend that first dollar to buy into the ecosystem is probably worth the loss. Time will tell if they're willing to continue subsidizing sales, but they probably think that they won't need if that first hump is cleared.
I guess what Epic needs right now is to drive away people from Steam or other stores to their storefront so it becomes a more attractive platform for publishers.
This is the only way Epic could win me over, but they don't have anything I want yet, and I'd need to see more deals to trust them.
Aren't people generally talking about the fact that Epic are subsidising these discounts, rather than the fact that they are discounts.
Bribe isn't accurate language though. Subsidised discounts is more accurate.
What region are y'all in jeez.
I'm probably gonna take advantage of this and get Control and Bloodlines 2. Do they charge before release?
God I hate it when people use a hottake out of context to create an even hotter hottake out of it and posters use that, hottake to stealth-dogpile on banned users
Alright bought Heavy Rain, Beyond and Detroit for 49€ very nice
Love that you came in just when I posted haha. Gonna be a good time with these 3 games soon with max fidelity =)