Grumpy is better than disengenous. Let's just get that down as a baseline.
I wouldn't have thought this would have needed to be said, but it appears you can't take anything for granted.
Grumpy is better than disengenous. Let's just get that down as a baseline.
All that money and you think Epic would just try to make some of their own video games.
Like an arena shooter or something.
Can you honestly explain why you think this is a good thing for the consumer?
Let's play a little hypothetical game here. Let's say Epic beats Steam using this type of "competition", and 5 years from now all the major PC games are now exclusively on Epic Games launcher, with whatever DRM Epic wants to add, and no cloud saves unless you pay $5 a month for the Premium Epic Launcher. Do you think that's a good thing for PC gamers and gaming in general?
It'll most likely sell like crap.
Epic store is pretty much only filled with Fortnite players, who play nothing but Fortnite.
Comparing a unknown indie new IP to Call of Duty is disingenuous.People said the same thing when COD moved over to Battle.net yet it sold like hotcakes on there.
The people who were already interested in the title will still want to buy it, regardless of it's storefront.
Yes the storefront isn't up to par with Steam & it's terrible that this is how they want to add exclusives, but saying that It'll result in the games selling less than they would've is nothing more than speculation.
A lot of the ones that do are console warriors, so no wonder they think this is "healthy" competition.Sad state of affairs when gamers think this is a good thing. Wow.
People said the same thing when COD moved over to Battle.net yet it sold like hotcakes on there.
The people who were already interested in the title will still want to buy it, regardless of it's storefront.
Yes the storefront isn't up to par with Steam & it's terrible that this is how they want to add exclusives, but saying that It'll result in the games selling less than they would've is nothing more than speculation.
People said the same thing when COD moved over to Battle.net yet it sold like hotcakes on there.
The people who were already interested in the title will still want to buy it, regardless of it's storefront.
Yes the storefront isn't up to par with Steam & it's terrible that this is how they want to add exclusives, but saying that It'll result in the games selling less than they would've is nothing more than speculation.
People said the same thing when COD moved over to Battle.net yet it sold like hotcakes on there.
The people who were already interested in the title will still want to buy it, regardless of it's storefront.
Yes the storefront isn't up to par with Steam & it's terrible that this is how they want to add exclusives, but saying that It'll result in the games selling less than they would've is nothing more than speculation.
People said the same thing when COD moved over to Battle.net yet it sold like hotcakes on there.
The people who were already interested in the title will still want to buy it, regardless of it's storefront.
Yes the storefront isn't up to par with Steam & it's terrible that this is how they want to add exclusives, but saying that It'll result in the games selling less than they would've is nothing more than speculation.
Oh my god are you serious?! haha wowAlso love the fact that people are posting Bug reports for Ashen on Steam Forums (because, you know, epic don't believe in the community pages).
Guys. Game developers need to hedge their bets. If epic is willing to mitigate their risk then why wouldn't they jump at the chance? You can still play this game on PC. Don't be so freaking entitled.
Couldn't have said it better, get with the program pc gamers, the idea of a unified storefront as you imagine on pc isn't working when theyre not doing what's in the best interest for devs.
Competition is good ya scrubs... blistering blue barnacles man...
Wasn't it Tim Sweeney moaning about walled gardens and all that for the past few years?
lol jesus
Kind off. Guy who posted it was making a point I think... Anyway the forums are getting a lot of posts telling them where to stick the exclusivity.
Man oh man XD
Couldn't have said it better, get with the program pc gamers, the idea of a unified storefront as you imagine on pc isn't working when theyre not doing what's in the best interest for devs.
Competition is good ya scrubs... blistering blue barnacles man...
Unreal Tournament's fetus was aborted for this
What does that even mean to compete with Steam one on one?They (Epic games) cant compete against steam one on one (Tencent overloards probably think it would take too much time and money), so they gotta play dirty and buy games for exclusivity.
And people think this is competition lol.
People are acting like they have to buy a whole new pc to play these games
By doing what literally every other store does: by doing better with everything around the products.
Its Tidal but for the Video game Industry. Down to the flashy show, 'for the developers', no mention of consumers, big money behind the scenes. money-hatted exclusives.The Epic Store came out of nowhere and was plastered all over TGAs tonight. The whole thing feels artificial. Whatever happens between Steam, Epic Store, et al. I hope no devs become casualties. Their hard work deserves to be played by as many people as possible and I hope being on Epic isn't a deterrent to that end.
Basically, dropping their cut to 12% (say) would entice a large number of devs/pubs away from competitors - Humble, GOG, Origin - and they would, almost by accident, leverage their market leader position to bull out the competition.also known as undercutting, is a pricing strategy in which a product or service is set at a very low price with the intention to achieve new customers (Loss leader), or driving competitors out of the market or to create barriers to entry for potential new competitors.
Better put Genesis Alpha One on watch as well:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/712190/Genesis_Alpha_One/
Well, we still have to see if sales will prove this true, don't we?It's not better for the customer, it's better for the developers and yes there needs to be competition as well.
Well, we still have to see if sales will prove this true, don't we?