I backed Phoenix Point to get a Steam or GoG key at launch. The developers took Epic bribe money in the end and I demanded a refund. I got the refund and they got Epic's millions but my solemn vow never to buy their game if it ever comes to Steam in the future.
Hundreds of other backers got their refund too but the developers couldn't give a crap about their backers so we all parted ways with a sellout developer.
Never break a promise to people th...
One is a fully featured store and launcher with forums, mod support and many other features that supports the developers and well as the customer.
The other is a barebones launcher with no forum, mod support or even a basket with a mediocre website that thinks buying up games to be exclusive just on their store is competing.
You decide who's the fking idiots now. You or the people who support a fully functioning digital store that brought the PC platf...
I didn't know I could buy Metro Exodus on Steam, GoG, Itch.io etc. I've have to look into that...oh I can't.
Silly me, I remember Epic bought the exclusivity for a year so I can't buy it anywhere else. That's what choice means for you Epic shills I guess...
Until Epic has the infrastructure and features that Steam has no one can say 30% is too much.
The only reason Epic can offer a cut of only 12% is because their store is barebones and takes very little to maintain for now.
Watch what happens to the revenue cut once Epic starts to add features and options that customers and developers want in the future. I assure you that revenue cut will slowly rise over time or Epic closes the store down when they can'...
Epic Store will be a short term failure of EPIC proportions. Their previous game, Paragon, failed and Fortnite single player failed until Epic jumped onto the Battle Royale bandwagon.
Epic can't keep buying exclusivity and having these sales against the publishers wishes and the customers disdain when they buy too many games from their store.
It's heading for failure if Epic don't change their business practices and improve their customer rela...
I have 200+ games on GoG and 1600+ games on Steam. You were saying?
@Father__Merrin Oh you means World of Goo, the 10 year old game, which was free on Epic store or Super Meat Boy, Oxenfree etc?
Next time don't type and try to defend Epic. You will lose every time.
@redey3 It's not on Steam so there is no price for Borderlands 3. Epic bought the exclusivity for 6 months or longer if Pitchford gets his way.
Having a sale for many of the 30+ 3rd party exclusive games is no threat to Steam or Valve. I just bought several games on Steam this week and none from Epic store as their store is pathetic.
I don't blame Paradox for removing their unreleased game from these so-called fire sales. It would devalue the game when it is released in 2020.
Epic just jumps in feet first and doesn't think about the consequences till it's too late. That's just sho...
Epic isn't creating competition, they are creating a monopoly.
You can't be competitive when you are the only ones selling these exclusive 3rd party games. Wake up and stop defending anti-consumer and anti-competitive practices.
It was only last year that Tim Sweeney was accusing Microsoft of locking games exclusively to their store and now Epic are doing the exact same thing. Hypocrisy at it's finest.
Epic are willing to destroy their reputation by moneyhatting Steam marketed games to try to force more people onto their store as they know they can't compete any other way.
That doesn't sound like a confident company who is willing to work hard over several years to create a store and community that people actually want to buy their games from. It's a company that is doing all it can to remove already preordered Steam games from Steam and force them onto their ...
They only got $6m from kickstarter in 2012. Everything else was from their own funding campaign before and after kickstarter.
I'm glad I only backed it for $30 or i'd be really pissed off if i'd have donated thousands to it by now.
No. Buying exclusive rights to games so customers are forced to buy on their store and not by choice is not competition. It's a fledgling monopoly. The one thing that Epic accused Steam of being.
Hypocrisy at it's finest from Epic Games. It's the one reason they will fail in the long term.
You do realise that Epic are paying ($2m+) these devs to be exclusive and are also guaranteeing a revenue if they get low sales. This is not a self sustaining agreement but a short term investment by Epic to get more people to their store and undercutting the established market. They are literally removing already Steam marketed games from Steam and making them exclusive to their store for a year or more.
If this isn't anti-competitive and anti-consumer with a dose of m...
Epic Store doesn't have that many games on their store so all games will be noticed. World War Z should be selling over a million copies as it has such a high visibility on Epic Store, right? Wrong!
You sell on a new and seriously underdeveloped store and you get low sales. The only reason World War Z and many other games are on Epic Store in the first place and no where else is because Epic had to bribe them with an exclusivity contract of a couple of million dollars a...
Developers need to wise up and sell where the customers are not where the moneyhatting comes from. That is short termism in it's worst form.
I won't be following around every 3rd party developer as they switch between stores and those that offer them the most money for exclusivity.
You sell your products where the customers are or you don't sell at all.
Steam is just as good as it's always has been. Just because Epic is ...
To review you have to buy the game in the first place if it ever comes to steam at this point. Randy is a petty man-child and would probably try to block Borderlands 3 from ever coming to Steam if he could. Just to make a stupid point.
I certainly won't be buying the game from Epic store and I'm seriously having my doubts of buying it on Steam if it does come to my preferred choice.
You've just been bribed and you don't even know it.
It's the same with the publishers/developers that Epic offer money to. They've been bribed to sign an exclusivity contract to only sell on Epic Store for a year or more as Epic can't compete with any of the other digital stores on an equal footing with their barebones store.
Epic are trying to fast track their way to success but they will run out of money at some point. That's whe...
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Yes Epic do pay the devs more even if the game doesn't sell that well. Epic will run out of shareholders and Fortnite money at some point and they'll have no where to go when that happens.
Their store is barebones and prone to hacking and brute forcing emails and passwords on a daily basis. I've been a victim of this before I closed my Epic account down.
Epic can't compete on an equal footing with GoG n...
I bought Witcher 1, 2 and 3 on GoG because CD Projekt is the owner of GoG and CD Projekt RED. I gave 100% of the profits to the actual company that made those games.
I have also bought Cyberpunk 2077 on GoG as well for the same reason.
I will not legitimise Epic policy of buying out games to be exclusive on their store. I will wait for Steam release or get the Xbox game pass for pc like I have done for Epic "exclusive" Metro Exodus. I will do th...