Industries of Titan - sci-fi city building sim/strategy set on Titan - now available on Early Access

God damn Epic.

 

I am ok with buying from toher stores but Epic have no regional pricing so I will use alternative regional pricing.

 

I don't quite understand "to 1.0 on both platforms".
So does that mean they'll have Early Access only on EGS, but once finished the game will release everywhere?

 

So Epic got two games that we can be excited about: Industries of Titan and that Obsidian game, The Outer World.

 

Yeah, that's exactly that.

 

Don't worry, the EU commision wants to end different prices and region locks within the EU.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-19-2010_en.htm

 

That isn't about regional prices (which the EU has nothing against, or we'd all be paying the same prices in the supermarket), but about region locking.

This clears it up rather well in the update:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/eu-slams-valve-game-publishers-geo-blocking,39001.html

It's not really about pricing at all, just about the few games that are region locked within the EU.
So, don't worry, the good old VPN->cheaper prices should still work - at least as long as Valve continues to turn a blind eye.

 

Except Valve responded pointing out it was specifically about cheaper prices.

 

Epic reading comprehension fail on your part

What in your own highlighted quote even gives you a hint that the EU wants to end different prices. As I already said, the though alone is ridiculous.

Valve is merely trying to spread some panic by establishing a connection where the is none. Regional locks affect 3% of the games on Steam. 3%. Three percent. Three. Everything else is not affected, and this game most likely wouldn't be, either. Of those few affected titles, some might increase their price if the publisher/dev thought that now everyone would get those cheaper prices. Which they almost certainly won't. Regional pricing != region locks. Region lock means you cannot buy a game in country X and play in country Y, so for those titles, buying them via VPN/other store wouldn't achieve anything (except if you also played via VPN).
With the region locks removed, you COULD buy them via VPN (or some other store) for a cheaper price. But that is simply not done often enough to justify raising local prices and thus most certainly losing out on local sales. It's not like everyone buys all their keys via some cheaper way. Most simply buy via Steam.

 

And those region locked games will simply have a flat eurozone price after this change.
Yay, EU saved us from the tyrannical capitalists!

 

The big assumption in this case is that the publishers will behave logically and ignore that price arbitrage is possible. Price arbitrage is the sole reason why we have region locks in the first place, probably put into place by Valve due to request by one or more of the publishers. The suits in the meeting rooms of big publishers won't just ignore the possibility of price arbitrage, similar to how they fear piracy and waste money on DRM. They have tunnel vision on sales revenue, cost vs benefit analysis did not work (or was not done by them) in the case of DRM and I doubt it will work here.

 

Oh, a few of them actually might go for it, yes. But even that will be a fraction of 3%. The vast majority of regional pricing will be unaffected, no matter how the region locked titles react.
In general, while you can't trust suits with anything concerning games, you can usually trust them to not make the dumbest of moves when it comes to financials. If regional locks to make sure regional pricing is not abused really were such an effective method, we'd see it everywhere. We don't even see it everywhere when big titles & publishers are involved.

 

My pricing will be close to carribean.

 

Video with interview and gameplay, courtesy of PC Gaymer



IMO game looks cheap and boring af, nothing like the first trailers. WTH are all these developers doing with the money from the EGS bribes?

 

Coke and hookers.

Or just funding their next game: since they already got EGS's money for this game, they can just do the bare minimum of work on this game, with the intent of not trying to clear the amount of sales where Epic redistribute money (since I guess EGS first recoup the handout before giving money from game sales to the devs).

 

Price Arbitrage gets interesting in one game I'm playing, where, due to regional pricing on the premium currency combined with a shared single shard worldwide, it is possible to create an account from a region with very low currency prices, buy the premium currency, purchase tradeable items with that currency, then turn around and RMT that stuff at a profit. This is technically a bannable offense...but why would this person care, since he is not even a player?

 

EA starts in under a month.



Will anyone be getting it on the EGS? I'm kinda bummed out that they went this way. I don't have any interest in giving Epic money.

I bought Crypt back at the very start and adore the developer, and t's just amazing to see how far they've come since then. Nevermind how impressive it'll be if they can pull off multiple genres like this — I can't think of many indies that manage that, though Klei certainly comes to mind. I guess it's possible the exclusivity money went to their head, but their original work was such a painstakingly crafted product of love, it would be hard to imagine them becoming jaded and careless already.

 

Nah, Epic store is for schmucks.

Especially the exclusives they have are not even good. I'm not desperate for a Sim City on different planets. And even if was I could just play Surviving Mars, which is equally bland.

 

Looks pretty great to me. I think i will try it. Seems like a mix between sim city and factorio.