Wow, still bribing eh

I will not be supporting this practice. EPIC will not be installed on my system no matter what. Sure Steam has there own issues but this is an other level. What an EPIC fail... I wouldn’t think Tim was like this. Shame :(

Lol, he even admits that they are severely lacking in features compared to Steam since they rushed it and that the only way to gain traction is to buy exclusivity rights (which is the scummiest thing to do). He truly doesn't give a crap of the PC gaming community at all. Someone asked him how it benefits us, the consumers in using their store and even Tim didn't provide a straight answer. He simply said it's to give developers more income so they can reinvest in games or provide better savings for us (only in some territories). That's a bunch of baloney. He truly does not give two sh*ts about the PC gaming community and only care about $$$.

A lot of dudes are defending this anti-consumer practice.

My anger for Epic Games multiplies exponentially by the day

Exclusives have been part of the gaming industry since day one and this is not some secret discovery. Spoilers they will continue to be in the near and far future until a better business model comes along.

...literally nothing in that thread says they pay to keep games off third party sellers.

Letting devs keep more of their money is not paying them. Nor does signing an exclusivity deal mean "payment".

Everybody left Fortnite to go play Apex Legends, Epic will run out of money and wont be able to buy more exclusives and developers who signed with them will feel dumb and will angrily wait till theyre 1 year exclusivity with steam ends so they can jump on steam again
Fortnite is the reason most people are downloading the Epic Store, once that game becomes Overwatch in player count, the developers signed to Epic will see a huge decline in there game sales, cause honestly i hate opening Origin and Uplay and Steam and updating them to play my game collection, the rockstar social club pisses me off and i can never play GTA5 without internet

So epic want to special market in open industry!!!!

How is this any different from paying for timed exclusively for consoles?

Greedy publishers are killing the industry.

I don't understand the rage people having over this....I understand that you want to play your game on your PC on the storefront of your pick...but think of this as a console...no one complains about third-party exclusives for sony or switch before so why start now?

Yeah we figured

I don't know if its just me but it feels like Tim is trying to compete with the Steam from 15 years ago still. He answers questions as if Steam still lacks things that have since been done and when he does comparisons it's based on outdated info. It's like he installed Steam once a decade and a half ago and never went back after.

This is a similar tactic ms did with timed exclusives during the 360 gen.
I hope this doesnt give ms any ideas for their gamepass

Gozex i would not be surpised if that really hapens....🙄

I don't understand the uproar from people about the Epic Games Store.

Try to imagine if they said that about Steam. Imagine how stupid they would sound.

This makes me never want to spend money on their store ever. The only reason some of us probably even have this launcher is for the free games.

How did this store go from the Steam-Killer to the shit-starter is such a short amount of time?

Some of are are too young to remember this, but Steam was hated when it first launched. We were forced to install and use it, to play their games. Sure it’s loved now, it’s normal. It’s all a lot of customers know. The same will be true for new launchers/platforms. I really do miss the truly open days of the Internet. But the convenience and playability is hard to deny. You don’t miss what you never had.

Shady business at its finest. Steam isn't perfect, but you don't see Gabe paying off publishers to not release games on their competitors' services. Also, what does it say about a platform if keeping a game exclusive to it would be too costly without some extra cash being forked over under the table? I'm all for Epic wanting to compete with a Goliath like Steam but I don't like how they're going about it.

I feel for PC gamers. I’m used to this as a console gamer on closed platforms but I empathize. It’s a shit model for PC. Real competition would be epic undercutting steam prices, then steam returning the favor, etc. Gamers win when companies fight for business. This timed exclusive garbage is used to sell consoles, not games. It’s artificial, it’s not cheaper games and nobody wins.

I can confirm that I am torrenting all Epic single player games going forward and whatever else they have on their store :D I'm not the one losing Epic you are by not getting a fucking cent from me LMAO. At this rate I will be up tp 95% of games torrented in the future. Companies keep fucking with gamers. It's not hurting me my pocket is full XD

Epic is going to put up a monthly subscription paywall plan soon. Get ready for it.

This is not at all pro-consumer nor pro competition. This is the easy way to try and get market share.

No platform/store should have game exclusivity. It coerces gamers to buy into a platform/store simply because the content is not available anywhere else. By agreeing to this Ubisoft has lost trust points in me, and Epic never had them to begin with. I probably won't buy the Division 2 on any platform because of this. And Epic can continue to stay on my blacklist.

Platforms/stores should win based on services, innovation, and quality NOT exclusivity.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau