Yep, in the end that's what these deals are all about: choosing who you want your customers to be. For every dev and publisher doing this, their intended customer is Epic, and not the potential buyers of their game.Well, that's the thing here.
Either you take the money now and have a midterm success (but people will remember how horrible you were).
Or you take the risk in the short term but if you succeed you'll ride for a longer time.
Even then the risk was mitigated by the crowdfunding money.
I'm not saying I wouldn't be tempted to take the money. But let's stop the narrative that Epic has been courting money starving indies.
Yes the deal is appealing. But taking this deal also means a huge spit on the face of the backers with a good middle finger rubbed on the face.
The fact that they didn't even think of the "gog/steam keys" or even chinese backers is literally showing it.
I hope that money can sustain them a long time because good luck making business with people again.
Couldn't agree with this post more. I don't blame devs for taking the money either, but I damn sure believe it's disingenuous that they try to play victim while cashing the check. You can't play both the "I'm starving, please support me and my artistic vision" and "I'll do literally anything for money, even if it goes against your interests" cards at the same time and expect me to be happy about it.Then again, it sucks and it's a spit a customers face. But I cant blame the developpers either. If you handed me a bag of money, I'd just take it. Is it understandable ? Yes.
What I dont understand is how some people are actually trying to convince others (not you) that it's a good thing for the market as a whole when it's basically a company forcing its way to have a marketshare they're not owed and is likely to abuse its position if it has a slight hold on the market by choosing the winners in the market and making it worse for the customers.
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