Epic Games Store - the console war comes to PC

[Jezal_k23]

I'm just presenting the ultimate best case scenario that most devs on Epic are probably hoping to accomplish: release a version of the game exclusively on Epic, get their exclusivity money and whatever sales they can get there. Work on a big update for the Steam release, marketing it as the "new and improved" ultimate version, and try to pull off a secondary launch on Steam. If it sells better on Steam than it did Epic, then it proves Steam is the better store, but in any case it sure as hell was best for the developer to go Epic exclusive first.

 

[SionIV]

I'm just presenting the ultimate best case scenario that most devs on Epic are probably hoping to accomplish: release a version of the game exclusively on Epic, get their exclusivity money and whatever sales they can get there. Work on a big update for the Steam release, marketing it as the "new and improved" ultimate version, and try to pull off a secondary launch on Steam. If it sells better on Steam than it did Epic, then it proves Steam is the better store, but in any case it sure as hell was best for the developer to go Epic exclusive first.

I agree with this, though I would imagine that either Steam or Epic will put a stop to it. Steam growing tired of being an advertisement platform for these games that go Epic exclusive, or Epic losing too much money from the sales on Steam a year later, with the new and improved launch.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

The "best case scenario" only concerns potentially popular and/or objectively good games which are also non-niche, of which very, very few are epic exclusives (for obvious reasons). Most of those timed exclusives, like Operencia (I'm always using it as an example, because its the only exclusive so far I had slight interest in), are completely dead in the water. I hope they spend the guaranteed sales advert money wisely, because they ain't getting any more. And the crowd funding bridge is mostly burnt too.

 

[fantadomat]

but there did seem to be a lot of people saying they wouldn't buy the game and reward Supergiant's practices.

Yeah, that sort of weirded me out as well in SuperGiant's case. I get the sole mention of Epic gets a lot of people upset for good reason but in Hades' case it was a game that didn't have a Steam Page until today as far as I know, the developers weren't shitheads about it like other devs (Satisfactory and Ooblets), and their deal was made probably before the incompetence of Epic's store and their practices came into full light. That plus Pyre being a bomb for them, it was probably taking the deal or the company sinking. Whatever though, will probably get the game once it fully comes out next year and is generally received well.

I too wouldn't be interested in buying a game that was an exclusive on epic,even if really liked it. It is a matter of principles and tribalism . I do not want to support people that support that kind of shit,it is that simple. Most of those devs will get the fat dick in the end,they will have the stigma of being an epic bitch for a long time,they did have loose a lot of people's good will in the end of the day. Some may even die out because of that retardation. People do have the tendency to punish those that betrayed the tribe.

 

[toro]

This war is boring: no deaths, no IEDs, no weight loss for Gabe.

 

[Bruticis]

Oh Metro, god damn I missed telling you how wrong you are. Did you miss me telling you how wrong you are?

Hello Brut, how do?

Hi Cow! Just so you know, I never forgot you. I talked about you all the time, I told all the hookers about you while snorting lines of their semi-clean asses. I even mentioned you in my divorce proceedings.

 

[Curratum]

Why are the Bastion people still making the same game, 8 years and 2 titles later?

 

[fantadomat]

 

[Bruticis]

The constant EGS hate is the weirdest fucking ever. It's a fucking digital store filled with games the kodex wasn't going to buy anyway. Steam doesn't need you to white knight it, kids.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

This thread is like groundhog day. Only the groundhog had a severe accident resulting in loss of both long- and short-term memory, cannot read and is generally super retarded.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

The constant EGS hate is the weirdest fucking ever. It's a fucking digital store filled with games the kodex wasn't going to buy anyway. Steam doesn't need you to white knight it, kids.

CCP has placed 4 yuan in your account for this shill post

 

[Bruticis]

The constant EGS hate is the weirdest fucking ever. It's a fucking digital store filled with games the kodex wasn't going to buy anyway. Steam doesn't need you to white knight it, kids.

CCP has placed 4 yuan in your account for this shill post

Shill, me? LOL, kid you have no idea what kind of bad ass superhero god I was at one point for Steam. I AM THE FORMER STEAM GOD you fucking noob.

 

[evdk]

The constant EGS hate is the weirdest fucking ever. It's a fucking digital store filled with games the kodex wasn't going to buy anyway. Steam doesn't need you to white knight it, kids.

CCP has placed 4 yuan in your account for this shill post

Shill, me? LOL, kid you have no idea what kind of bad ass superhero god I was at one point for Steam. I AM THE FORMER STEAM GOD you fucking noob.

So this is how you finance your expensive cocaine habit.

 

[fantadomat]

LOL, kid

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Five days old and already a grandpa.....

 

[Bruticis]

LOL, kid

Joined: Sunday


Five days old and already a grandpa.....

You can read! There might just be hope for you yet, sport.

 

[DalekFlay]

I'm just presenting the ultimate best case scenario that most devs on Epic are probably hoping to accomplish: release a version of the game exclusively on Epic, get their exclusivity money and whatever sales they can get there. Work on a big update for the Steam release, marketing it as the "new and improved" ultimate version, and try to pull off a secondary launch on Steam. If it sells better on Steam than it did Epic, then it proves Steam is the better store, but in any case it sure as hell was best for the developer to go Epic exclusive first.

This is absolutely a thing since I know people (including maybe me on rare occasions) who re-buy things on GOG for the DRM/Client-free aspect, once they're in a deep sale. More revenue is good revenue. I've said before Boderlands 3 will be a big test for the acceptance of the store, but it will also be super interesting to see if any devs comment on what happened when they eventually made it to Steam.

 

[passerby]

I sometimes rebuy on Steam, and hide games on gog because gog library is one tiled alphabetically sorted mess without an ability to create custom categories [autism]. I do this only when I stumble upon super cheap bundle, or max 1$ key on a reseller site, though.

I don't have this OCD issue with Uplay, or Origin where I have only like a dozen games each and Epic will fall in the same category ( haven't bought anything yet, just collected freebies ).

 

[Bruticis]

I sometimes rebuy on Steam, and hide games on gog because gog library is one tiled alphabetically sorted mess without an ability to create custom categories.

I believe you can now do this in the GOG Galaxy 2.0 client if you wanted to sign up for the beta access so might try that out and see if it's more to your liking.

 

[evdk]

I sometimes rebuy on Steam, and hide games on gog because gog library is one tiled alphabetically sorted mess without an ability to create custom categories.

I believe you can now do this in the GOG Galaxy 2.0 client if you wanted to sign up for the beta access so might try that out and see if it's more to your liking.

Stop pretending to be helpful, it makes my teeth itch.

 

[Bruticis]

I sometimes rebuy on Steam, and hide games on gog because gog library is one tiled alphabetically sorted mess without an ability to create custom categories.

I believe you can now do this in the GOG Galaxy 2.0 client if you wanted to sign up for the beta access so might try that out and see if it's more to your liking.

Stop pretending to be helpful, it makes my teeth itch.

You know what makes your teeth not itch? Coke.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

The constant EGS hate is the weirdest fucking ever. It's a fucking digital store filled with games the kodex wasn't going to buy anyway. Steam doesn't need you to white knight it, kids.

If you can take the time to sign up again after all these years, you can take the time to read the entire thread.

That's why so many here are writing you off as the old man from Family Guy rather than some STEAM GAMING GOD.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I wonder if it would be possible to convince video game "journalists" that the 88% cut is a secret dogwhistle to neonazis because it's HH

 

[Bruticis]

The constant EGS hate is the weirdest fucking ever. It's a fucking digital store filled with games the kodex wasn't going to buy anyway. Steam doesn't need you to white knight it, kids.

If you can take the time to sign up again after all these years, you can take the time to read the entire thread.

That's why so many here are writing you off as the old man from Family Guy rather than some STEAM GAMING GOD.

I'm not reading a bunch of copy paste rehashed crap about EGS. I get it, the internet is angry, news at 11. You're still morons bitching over nothing.

 

[Alfgart]

The constant EGS hate is the weirdest fucking ever. It's a fucking digital store filled with games the kodex wasn't going to buy anyway. Steam doesn't need you to white knight it, kids.

If you can take the time to sign up again after all these years, you can take the time to read the entire thread.

That's why so many here are writing you off as the old man from Family Guy rather than some STEAM GAMING GOD.

I'm not reading a bunch of copy paste rehashed crap about EGS. I get it, the internet is angry, news at 11. You're still morons bitching over nothing.

Fuck this, I'm tired from reading this kind of shit from Epic shill retards like this one, so let me explain with a real case how shit the EGS is...

For us people who don't use USD currency (in my case South America), EGS implemented regional prices a while ago, but in the Store, the prices are still shown in USD. The only payment methods are credit card and Paypal, so no matter what, you're gonna pay in dollars, which is subject to exchange rates.
Steam show prices in local currency, and they also allow payments with local currency, thanks to a deal between Valve and an intermediary called BoaGold. Those prices are fixed, and they're around -40% cheaper than USA prices.
As a small example, Darksiders III costs $39.99 USD on EGS. On Steam, it costs $26.500 CLP, equivalent to $37.15 USD right now. That price will never change. Meanwhile, if our economy continues going down the shitter with higher exchange rates, the EGS will get even more expensive.
Compared to the prices on Steam, EGS is always more expensive, with fewer payment options. So for us third worlders, an EGS exclusive means the game will be pricier than a Steam release.
And that's ignoring all the problems and lack of features of EGS that's been already discussed at lenght here.

I think it's clear enough, but I suppose the usual retards will continue shilling for that Epic cancer

 

[Bruticis]

The constant EGS hate is the weirdest fucking ever. It's a fucking digital store filled with games the kodex wasn't going to buy anyway. Steam doesn't need you to white knight it, kids.

If you can take the time to sign up again after all these years, you can take the time to read the entire thread.

That's why so many here are writing you off as the old man from Family Guy rather than some STEAM GAMING GOD.

I'm not reading a bunch of copy paste rehashed crap about EGS. I get it, the internet is angry, news at 11. You're still morons bitching over nothing.

Fuck this, I'm tired from reading this kind of shit from Epic shill retards like this one, so let me explain with a real case how shit the EGS is...

For us people who don't use USD currency (in my case South America), EGS implemented regional prices a while ago, but in the Store, the prices are still shown in USD. The only payment methods are credit card and Paypal, so no matter what, you're gonna pay in dollars, which is subject to exchange rates.
Steam show prices in local currency, and they also allow payments with local currency, thanks to a deal between Valve and an intermediary called BoaGold. Those prices are fixed, and they're around -40% cheaper than USA prices.
As a small example, Darksiders III costs $39.99 USD on EGS. On Steam, it costs $26.500 CLP, equivalent to $37.15 USD right now. That price will never change. Meanwhile, if our economy continues going down the shitter with higher exchange rates, the EGS will get even more expensive.
Compared to the prices on Steam, EGS is always more expensive, with fewer payment options. So for us third worlders, an EGS exclusive means the game will be pricier than a Steam release.
And that's ignoring all the problems and lack of features of EGS that's been already discussed at lenght here.

I think it's clear enough, but I suppose the usual retards will continue shilling for that Epic cancer

I stopped reading at South America. You have far worse things to be concerned with in that case. Excuse me if I don't fall on my sword for some third worlders rights to use banana republic money. As an elite citizen of the United States of Trump, this is a non issue.