In regards to PC timed exclusives I know there is a bunch of stuff Oculus paid for timed exclusivity. They've also got shit for that in the past though just like Epic has.
I think that actually comes from daxy 's rough translation of a Russian language podcast of Galyonkin's, from this thread.
ERA has truly become a 4chan of its own, its kinda of disgusting actually. ppl praising all these anti consumer practices, just baffles my mind.
Oh, didn't realize that, i was quite shocked to see someone write that here, but yeah, even as someone from a country that has no big problems with regards to buying games, i find EGS's exclusion of Linux and many other kind of users a very bad thing about the store.
Japanese publishers are noticeably absent, especially the big ones (Capcom, Sega, Bamco, Square Enix)
Square Enix. At least I don't think they have one. Capcom too but they son't have anything major coming until Iceborne an the base game is on Steam anyway.
First, I'll take a guess that far far more than 1 or 2 crowdfunded games have either never seen the light of day, or not been what the backer hoped, so this seems like a very minor reason to bail on crowd-funding. Besides, you can still play the game if you want. Not like it's vaporware. Second, about half of the funding received saw 220% of their money returned.
Even with bottomless pockets they aren't going to be doing this forever. They'd expect this stuff to start snowballing at some point and get some sales back. If it doesn't they're not going to keep throwing money away. They'll keep the store open and available to stuff of course but things will certainly be more back to normal in a few years at the very least.
I'm going to disagree. There's been too much of a dust up this time, and they've failed to provide any reason to continue to use them outside of their exclusives. Even then there is no way the sales for any game they've gotten are anything near what they expected or wanted. This is unsustainable.
I'd sort of get if that happened at launch (Epic forcing Ubi to change it so that they have a chance of someone buying it from them), but I don't see what the point of doing that 2 months after launch is
Yes and seemingly yes
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I think you're thinking Outer Worlds, but that one was announced as EGS exclusive back in March. They've got both.
yup
Early funders got 220% of their money back already.
I'm not advocating for broken promises. I do, however, support smaller developers doing what they need to in order to get a chance at success. Plus, to play devil's advocate: No one saw EGS coming. Yeah, they said that they wanted to release on Steam, but EGS didn't even exist back then. I dont think there was malice or greed involved here, just a smaller company looking out for themselves.
