Valve writes: "Our goal of shipping all three products in the first half of the year has not changed. But we have work to do to land on concrete pricing and launch dates that we can confidently announce, being mindful of how quickly the circumstances around both of those things can change. We will keep you updated as much as we can as we finalize those plans as soon as possible."
Unfortunately, after hearing the price of this thing it’s undoubtedly going to fail out the gate.
Why would anyone pay premium PC pricing for an extremely gimped pc… insane logic. Which is weird coming from valve, but I guess the people running the steam box division still haven’t learnt a thing.
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In his latest remarks about Valve's storefront, the Epic boss likens Steam commissions to "a car dealership demanding 30% of gas purchases."
A man that basically called all Linux users entitled cheaters and then said "Installing Linux is sort of the equivalent of moving to Canada when one doesn’t like US political trends" is stirring the pot again eh? Pot meet kettle.
Jamie Hore has been writing about gaming for seven years, and somehow still has not figured out how this industry works. Like, seriously. Publishers lowering their prices just because they now pay Valve five to ten percent less? Come on. That just sounds like someone who has not been paying any real attention to the same industry he supposedly covers.
And of course Sweeney had to jump in. That is kind of his whole thing. Instead of actually working on making his own company’s tools decent, he just deflects and points at competitors, hoping people get distracted long enough to forget that his so called alternative is worse in pretty much every conceivable way for the people that actually matter, the consumer.
Not to mention how unbelievably hypocritical he is when he talks about “benefits for developers.” As if his other tool, Unreal Engine, was not responsible for wiping out thousands of positions across the industry by pushing this massive consolidation of tools. Suddenly everyone is using the same pipeline, the same tech, the same shortcuts, and all that really does is make the eyes of publishers and executives shine greener at how much of their own talent they can cut, because now any cheaper third party studio can step in and do the job, quality be damned.
Interesting take, especially when you realize Epic Game Store has yet to tun a profit.
If they spent just as much effort improving the Epic Store as this guy does complain about Steam then maybe they would've set a new standard by now. Thnx for all the free games tho.
EGS really has barely changed since it launched. I don't think he has any room to talk when they've made zero progress in 8 years
Epic store has not caught up to Steam, regarding features, but it hasn't had zero progress for 8 years. Either you are ignorant or a liar, regardless you are wrong
@gerbintosh I've paid attention and the updates. It really is almost nothing in 8 years. They added cloud save is the one big one but is really just an expected feature.
Library organization is still a mess. (separating EGS monthly free games would help)
In 8 years there's no defending the tiny amount it's changed.
And it shouldn't need to be said but again, people do not need to be defending multi billion dollar publically owned companies.
I want them to do well, I would like more competition on the storefronts, so I'm going to call them out.
I was on EGS' side for a while with this kind of messaging but EGS has had years at this point and the client has barely improved it's usability at all. It's really a nuisance to look at my EGS library.
