Epic Games Store - the console war comes to PC

Remember that these are cyclic fads that usually last 3-5 years and "Battle Royale" is already showing its age. There's at the most another 2-3 years here till this particular moneywell dries up and something new comes along: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...-goes-bankrupt-rip.121181/page-6#post-5575917

 

Radical Heights dying isn't the result of anything else but that Radical Heights was just bad. Your post was also inaccurate, MMOs and MOBAs are still popular as hell. BRs will be the same way, one or two BR games will become to go-to for everyone (i.e. what WOW and some gook MMOs are for MMOs and what League of Legends and Dota 2 are for MOBAs) and they'll stick around with good popularity for the next 5-10 years.

 

Yes there's obviously a time limit on it, but it's longer than most people are acting like. Fortnite just shrugged off its best competitor yet in Apex Legends, it's gonna be making them money hand over fist for a long time to come. If consumers hold firm they will eventually be "defeated" in their goal, but exclusives have worked many times before with gaming shit so I wouldn't be that optimistic.

His bullshit today about this all being altruistic is amusing though.

 

Garrys Mod BR with grav guns and objects. BR through head trauma and OH&S violations

 

Whether Steam relents or not, Epic aren't going to stop establishing their beachhead with the most efficient means available to them. Epic's constant attempts to portray themselves as a multi-billion dollar champion of the people are getting increasingly absurd. Two massive corporations are going to war, and each would like nothing more than to monopolise the market. That's how corporations work! It's hoped this conflict will increase our value as customers and we'll see some benefits, but that would be a byproduct of Epic's actions, not the intent. It's like Epic are trying to take credit for the dog getting to eat because some food spilled off the table while they were gorging themselves.

 

ePiC Gamer sure is subtle.

 

They're just quoting the dev, who is surely just fulfilling the exclusive agreement's PR clause. Would be more believable if he said they don't think they lost enough sales to counter the higher revenue, but what he actually said was just PR B.S.

 

When Epic gives you guaranteed sales that you would otherwise not have gotten, then yes, your game will sell "way above expectations."

 

I'm thinking they actually include those "sales" when they mention how much it sold.

 

Why are they so focused on the number '88'?

 

He's baiting. He knows 12% is hardly sustainable and is poking Valve to lower their cut, which they will most likely not do. If they do, it's more power to Epic.

I mean, why would you make a store, invest so much money in it, make some high-end partnerships, and then suddenly abandon it when your competition does something? Makes no sense. And him saying that on Twitter really means nothing. It's basically like me saying I'll amputate my arm if somebody gives me 10 million dollars. Not bluffing at all. Nope. No sir.

 

Because he is a champion of developers

 

Easy to perform above expectations when you have no expectations. I mean... it's a Focus Home Interactive title. Also, that one million is total units and not PC? Considering the bulk is probably console sales that is an underwhelming number.

 

Weird how they only release the total figure and not the figure per platform.

 

I hate to defend EGS but they did

I have no interest in co-op shooters so I don't know if that number is good or shit for the genre. I know the usual order is PS4 >PC>Xbone for multiplats so that does seem like a bit of decline unless the Xbox numbers are awful.

 

It could be an inclusion of the guaranteed sales.

 

I would expect online shooters to do well on the Epic Game Store. That really is nothing new.

 

It could be fun if epic paid for some exclusive and all retarded kids abandoned fortnite for new game.

 

A record weekend on EGS is like a record in Paralympics.

 

The PC is Microsoft's bitch since time immemorial. It will eventually become Valve's bitch.

 

Interesting that it has so many copies sold yet so few players
Kingdom Come: Deliverance sold 300k units in its first two days and became the most simultaneously played singleplayer game on Steam surpassing Skyrim and Witcher 3 with 92,268 players.

Yet WWZ -- a game that includes multiplayer elements -- barely managed a peak of 70k across all three platforms combined despite selling 1 million copies in a week. KCD didn't break a million copies sold across the same platforms until two weeks after its release.

 

Valeve's attempts to move everything to some kind of Linux deal are extremely slow going, if they're still moving at all. And that ignores the literal decades of Windows games that would never be ported over. PC gamers will always be Microsoft's bitch in the end. It's honestly one of the biggest corporate missteps of all time that Microsoft basically handed Valve the financial keys.

 

Which is why they're investing in Proton/Wine.