Looks like we should expect Watch_Dogs 3 to hit the Epic Games Store and Uplay later this year.
Games up right now include:
- Ghost Recon Wildlands
- Watch_Dogs 2
- Far Cry Primal
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Ubisoft and Epic Games have announced an extension to their agreement; Additional back catalog titles from Ubisoft are confirmed for Epic’s free games
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Looks like we should expect Watch_Dogs 3 to hit the Epic Games Store and Uplay later this year.
Games up right now include:
Ubisoft is making out like a bandit from this deal. Lots of people already have Uplay and are probably used to buying things from Uplay itself due to the discount from Uplay points, and I doubt many people who have both Uplay and EGS installed are buying The Division 2 on EGS. Ubisoft is also already very generous in giving away their back catalogue on Uplay as is (I got AssCreed 3, Rayman Origins, World in Conflict, Beyond Good and Evil, and Watch_Dogs free). Basically, Ubi gets a fat stack of cash for this and probably drives more sales towards Uplay where they get 100% of the cut.
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At least i can buy them on uplay is not a sentence i thought i would be writing in the year of our lord 2019.
Epic moneyhatted Rollercoaster Tycoon Adventures, a shitty mobile port being sold for 30$. They just throw money at everything that moves.
I know I'll get dragged for this opinion, but I'm glad that Epic is putting some damn fire under Steam's heels. They've been stagnant and clustered for too long, and only got away with it because it didn't have any real competition. Maybe moves like this will inspire Valve to get compeittive again, before most of their previous partners are suddenly "Epic Store Only".
EDIT: Wow, some of you *really* like Steam.
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This has been my take from the get go. I think your first sentence has a typo at the end though? Shouldn't it be " I doubt many people who have both Uplay and EGS installed are buying The Division 2 on EGS"?
When people had the option between Steam and uPlay they opted for Steam
When people had the option between EGS and upaly, they opted for Uplay
of course The Division 2 is going to have 6x higher pre-orders compared to the other one.
By eliminating Steam, everyone will go to uPlay instead of EGS.
When people had the option between EGS and upaly, they opted for Uplay
of course The Division 2 is going to have 6x higher pre-orders compared to the other one.
By eliminating Steam, everyone will go to uPlay instead of EGS.
Competitive how, all you want is for the different platforms to have exclusives by the sound of it. And Steam has not been stagnant at all but ofc you wouldn't know about that since you don't even know half of what they've been doing the past couple years
So both metro and the division 2 had a successful launch on the egs...hmm seems like Era overreacted.
You do realize the only way to beat this is to moneyhat against epic?
They only said that Metro sold 2.5x Last Light in the same launch period and not total numbers. If you were so confident about how much it sold, you woulda put total numbers not disingenuous launch numbers lmfao
Ah would've preferred other games for free not interested in Ubi games waste of spots, except their oldest titles like Prince of Persia or SSX 3 those are cool
Edit, wait I think I misread oh you can purchase their older games on EGS ok
Edit, wait I think I misread oh you can purchase their older games on EGS ok
If Valve improves the revenue split EGS would be irrelevant again.
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This will never happen because of the fact that the PC port is completely fucked when it comes to lighting (shadows aren't being rendered properly meaning the game is unplayable as some missions require you to stay in the shadows and you obviously can't do that if you can't see them) and has some serious incompatibilities with newer GPUs (because of a lack of shadow buffers) and Win 7/8/10 PCs. Ubisoft would have to fix up the PC port, but if they did this, I'd quicky be on-board with EGS as a whole.
valve has already improved the revenue split, big aaa games like div2 easily get in te highest bracket of steams revenue share.
this isnt about the revenue split, its about epic straight up paying off publishers.
Neat. Personally still don't care for their games though. I wonder that this'll mean for the future of Epic and Steam though.
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I'm glad it was a success, the game deserves it. Probably the most polished GAAS I've played at launch.
I'm surprised at the epic store sales though, why not just buy it through UPlay. The game's going to need you to install it anyway, and there's no advantage to buying it on the epic store.
I'm surprised at the epic store sales though, why not just buy it through UPlay. The game's going to need you to install it anyway, and there's no advantage to buying it on the epic store.
Do you want Valve to buy exclusivity for indie games so that they'll launch 1 year after on other stores and consoles?
How did you think Epic was gonna do it if they were to take away Steam's marketshare? Of course they'll moneyhat. That's a guarantee that people will be more likely to move over if they can't find those games on Steam.
That isn't what is getting all these devs and pubs to be EPS only or exclusive for a year. Epic are paying for those "partnerships". Revenue split will only matter after a 1 year also that's not adding to the fact that Ubisoft titles would likely be part of the titles they gain improved spilts after > $50 million in revenue.
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Yeah! Ubisoft were offering the first Splinter Cell game for free a while back so I'd imagine they could do it here. If it means people will have access to a great game, I'm all for it :-)
Not to get off topic, but I believe this is first time Epic has given us the PC-specific audience numbers for Fortnite. 85 million, holy shit that's a lot of eyeballs looking at a tightly curated store.
I'm not linking my Epic games account to my Uplay account. I hope they give the freebies to Uplay users, too.
It doesn't matter about the percentage, epic is giving them money. So unless Steam starts moneyhatting, this is going to continue
That has nothing to do with this. Epic is paying devs and publishers millions for exclusivity. Only thing Steam and other storefronts can do about this is moneyhatting games themselves. It's such a sad and f*cked up situation.
Wow Watch Dogs 2 is only $9.
Epic has been making me giddy today. Now I just hope Google's controller software isn't tied to an app and is easier than steam to work with games not on Stadia (steam and big picture take up so much resources), and I'd be all good. Though I doubt Stadia controller stuff will ever have touch pad for mouse look :(.
Epic has been making me giddy today. Now I just hope Google's controller software isn't tied to an app and is easier than steam to work with games not on Stadia (steam and big picture take up so much resources), and I'd be all good. Though I doubt Stadia controller stuff will ever have touch pad for mouse look :(.