Two polish resellers are currently listing Hunt: Showdown as an EGS title, the game is currently available to purchase on Steam in Early Access, 1.0 is expected to hit the stores on August 20th.
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Hunt: Showdown 1.0 appears to be coming to the Epic Games Store (update: not true, dev responds, see threadmark)
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Guess like many other developers they are making the choice to have less people play their game and have epic pay them lots of money...
The fact that you can already buy and play this on Steam (and have been able to for ages - I can't remember when I bought it... a year ago maybe?) means that it wouldn't be an Epic exclusive surely? Steam aren't going to remove it from your account?
I can see this maybe being the case. Done a deal to only sell Epic codes through retailers for x amount of time.
I can see this maybe being the case. Done a deal to only sell Epic codes through retailers for x amount of time.
I would guess not but they can remove it from steam for any future buyers I think.
God could you imagine, this would be comically anti-competition D:
...though let's be honest, also entirely in character
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In previous instances when games were removed from Steam, like when EA took down their products to sell them on Origin instead, they didn't remove the games from people's accounts, they were just made unavailable for further sales.
I guess at a massive stretch, they could say "We are not going to be updating the Steam version any more (for 12 months). We will offer a refund to all purchasers, waiving the usual Steam refund restrictions, and we're going to be Epic exclusive for 12 months".
But I think that would be even worse PR than any of the other Epic exclusive announcements we've had so far. I think it would be utterly toxic for all parties involved. I wouldn't want to rule it out 100%, but not far off.
But I think that would be even worse PR than any of the other Epic exclusive announcements we've had so far. I think it would be utterly toxic for all parties involved. I wouldn't want to rule it out 100%, but not far off.
It's a good point. They could totally just remove it from sale for future buyers.
yeah they'll probably just take it off the store.
unless valve has at some point changed their terms so devs can't use steam for beta/EA and then go exclusive on another store. if they haven't done that yet it has to be coming.
unless valve has at some point changed their terms so devs can't use steam for beta/EA and then go exclusive on another store. if they haven't done that yet it has to be coming.
iirc, all games that were removed (Metro: Exodus, for example) still get updates just fine. it's ''only'' removed from future sales.
I'd imagine the 1.0 just coming to EGS, not an exclusive. I mean, I guess I wouldn't put it past Epic to do that. Taking games already playable on other stores is the next step in being shitty.
That's true, although the difference is that it wasn't such a large window of time on Steam before it got pulled, and it wasn't an early access game.
Edit: and there are loads of steam keys already on the market, readily available from unauthorised retailers. I feel like delisting it from Steam would just result in people who want to buy it getting a Steam key from one of the sources still selling them. I don't believe any Steam keys were out in the wild for Metro when the announcement was made.
They need the Steam audience to keep the population floating. This would be suicide.
Assumption here sounds like a stretch. Sounds more like 1.0, the full formal release, will come to ESG.
Nevertheless, if they did actually cull 1.0 onwards from future sales on Steam it'd be the dumbest fucking business move ever. Hunt is absolutely glorious but has nowhere near the prolific sway of other Battle Royal-like games. Limiting the market of your big full updated release to a niche distribution platform, with exception to those already owning the game, would be a guaranteed death blow to population and player retention. Literally the two things the game needs to survive going forward.
Nevertheless, if they did actually cull 1.0 onwards from future sales on Steam it'd be the dumbest fucking business move ever. Hunt is absolutely glorious but has nowhere near the prolific sway of other Battle Royal-like games. Limiting the market of your big full updated release to a niche distribution platform, with exception to those already owning the game, would be a guaranteed death blow to population and player retention. Literally the two things the game needs to survive going forward.
Well we've seen plenty of devs happy to sacrifice players in exchange for Epic's bags of money.
Not really lol. If it's not a kickstarter game or coming soon on steam it probably wont be an exclusive.
Yeah, but this is a multiplayer game. No players, no game. Its not like they can re-release the game a year from now and hope people will come back.
but it was an EA game. yes, one could argue the money they're receiving is so much they would do it, but it doesn't make sense. it would be already bad if it was removed from 1.0 forwards, but cutting all manner of update would be the dumbest PR move ever. this is a game that lives and dies by it's population. it isn't a rocket league type of thing where they already have gargantuan amounts of players to just ignore newer ones.
it just feels to me this is just a deal for retail boxes. we'll see.
They've definitely done loads of them. Subnautica and it's spin-off, Vampire the Masquerade 2. Pretty much all of the free titles they give away that then just become part of the store (so things like Limbo, Torchlight, Super Meat Boy, Edith Finch, Moonlighter, Alan Wake etc).
Metro Exodus was not an early access game.
I very much agree this is unlikely, given how much of a PR disaster it would be, I'm just trying to theorise possible explanations for what they could be doing with Epic.
And Ubisoft games, although those are "exclusive as a 3rd party store."
oh, i expressed myself wrongly. i was just talking about Hunt. what i'm trying to say is that Hunt being EA is an argument that it doesn't make sense for such a deal(no updates moving forward, removing it from the store)to happen. Would be a disaster, unless Epic is giving Crytek an obscene amount of money.
This is pretty much guaranteed to be just for the retail release. Koch Media - best known for the Deep Silver publishing division - is handling the physical distribution, as they've mentioned in this press release:
the only competitive store epic cares about is steam, so i think when discussing EGS exclusives it can be read as "not on steam"
Yeah I was just mocking the ridiculous kinda language Epic use, not your accurate application of it.
Yeah this seems like it's what's going on.
Hardly the worst thing in the world, but I bet there'll be some people that end up disappointed thinking that they'd get a Steam code.
Funny that Crytek are still selling Steam keys on their own store though.