The Outer Worlds goes Epic Games Store-exclusive (also Windows Store)

[rusty_shackleford]

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft attempts to intervene and get the publisher to relinquish control after the backlash they've received tbh.

 

[Hobo Elf]

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft attempts to intervene and get the publisher to relinquish control after the backlash they've received tbh.

I can't imagine Microsoft being too happy about buying Obsidian and then having their rep tanked like this right at the last moment.

 

[Duraframe300]

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft attempts to intervene and get the publisher to relinquish control after the backlash they've received tbh.

Hopefully. Thats the only thing that can migate the damage done.

Would be ultimate irony though. Game about greedy big corporations gets saved by big corporation.

 

[Quillon]

In before Dying Light 2 goes to EPIC too.

It's almost certainly going to happen. EPIC loves to buy this kind of middle sized game.

Some time back I read that they had too many people still playing dying light so many years after its release, they wouldn't abandon that steaming crowd I guess.

 

[Prime Junta]

Steam is a monopolistic parasite that takes 30% of every sale, yet you swear to defend it to your last torrent. Fucking sheep.

 

[Grauken]

That's what a typical fifth columnist for the Chinese government would say

 

[HoboForEternity]

steam isn;'t a literal spyware, and it has actual features.

 

[True Ukrainian]

I see Avellone is now into virtue signalling as well. Maybe if Steam gave better rates to devs they would not need to go to Epic? Sad!

 

[Yosharian]

Steam is a monopolistic parasite that takes 30% of every sale, yet you swear to defend it to your last torrent. Fucking sheep.

Hmm. Is that what's happening?

 

[Arulan]

It doesn't matter what the revenue share is. This is happening because they're throwing large bags of money at publishers.

 

[Alienman]

I cry every time. Those poor publishers & devs, making games in absolute destitute only for our entertainment!

 

[Space Satan]

I have no problem with Epic competition to Steam. BUT. We are talking about Epic who ranted for YEARS about how exclusives are bad and harming gaming industry. And now they are on a "bribing" spree presenting themselves as some kin of benevolent force of holy competition, without actually providing one. They are not reducing their prices, they just hog games and bribe developers. I have no problem with devs chosing better deal with more money - that would be foolish, but it is Epic's actions that irritate me. It is not competition, it is robber barons.

 

[Grauken]

I cry every time. Those poor publishers & devs, making games in absolute destitute only for our entertainment!

Tears of joy I assume

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Steam is a monopolistic parasite that takes 30% of every sale, yet you swear to defend it to your last torrent. Fucking sheep.

You're right, which is why developers pass some of the savings directly onto consumers when moving to Epic.

Wait a moment.

 

[Grauken]

I have no problem with Epic competition to Steam. BUT. We are talking about Epic who ranted for YEARS about how exclusives are bad and harming gaming industry. And now they are on a "bribing" spree presenting themselves as some kin of benevolent force of holy competition, without actually providing one. They are not reducing their prices, they just hog games and bribe developers. I have no problem with devs chosing better deal with more money - that would be foolish, but it is Epic's actions that irritate me. It is not competition, it is robber barons.

I can kinda understand where they are coming from. They never planned to have a store. Then they got lucky, but realized that won't work forever. But if they got the Fortnite audience to continually buy from them, that would be massive. So placeholder store with predatory market penetration. I would have done the same in their position

 

[msxyz]

Isn't what Epic is doing a sort of Dumping or -at least- predatory business practices? If that is the case, and taking into account also that the Epic client is datamining Steam (and God knows what else), Valve should have a solid case against Epic at least in the EU

 

[Space Satan]

I can kinda understand where they are coming from. They never planned to have a store. Then they got lucky, but realized that won't work forever. But if they got the Fortnite audience to continually buy from them, that would be massive. So placeholder store with predatory market penetration. I would have done the same in their position

Buying developers to place their games on their store won't work forever. Sooner or later they'll have to ad functionality so now they are living on a borrowed time. Outer Worlds looks and feels like New Vegas\Skyrim and we all know what that means - mods. Epic store have next to no mod integration. Bethesda's cancerous desire to lock mods to their own software proved to be disastrous.
Should Epic Store fail to add "workshop" analog Outer Worlds will suffer greatly

 

[Space Satan]

Isn't what Epic is doing a sort of Dumping or -at least- predatory business practices? If that is the case, and taking into account also that the Epic client is datamining Steam (and God knows what else), Valve should have a solid case against Epic at least in the EU

It is the opposite of Dumping - they cancel regional prices, they do not reduce prices. They just lock releases to their store.

 

[axedice]

Steam is a monopolistic parasite that takes 30% of every sale, yet you swear to defend it to your last torrent. Fucking sheep.

Bribing publishers for exclusivity deals is not opposing monopoly though. A more customer friendly approach would have been offering the game 5-10% discount over Steam that would only effect Epic's cut. Thats the way to "win" customers over an established monopol, not turning PC-Gaming into a console exclusivity shithole.

Fuck Epic, fuck private division. Fuck them to hell and beyond. It is so sad to wait for a Cain Boyarsky collaboration for almost 20 years, then see all their hardwork thrown into trash by yet another publisher

 

[Flou]

Come to think of it, wasn't outer worlds #1 a few weeks ago? Did that many people remove it already?

No, it's been at #3 for a month or so.

 

[markec]

I was almost disappointed by this news, good thing that the game looks meh, that its made by Obsidian and that I never planned to play in the first place.

 

[jf8350143]

It always amuse me that people are willing to defend EGS, when all they do is shitting on consumers and kiss the ass of publishers. While Steam maybe asshole to the publishers, at least they don't screw over the consumers.

We as consumers get nothing from this war between EGS and Steam, we are the casualties. EGS has no regional prices, means lots of people need to pay extra money to buy game from them, their refund policy is complete shit comparing to Steam, and people in China can't even buy games from it. The developers won't get extra money to make games because the money will goes to the publishers, instead of the developers.

 

[SpaceWizardz]

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft attempts to intervene and get the publisher to relinquish control after the backlash they've received tbh.

You'd think Microsoft would be happy, seeing as this will be the first Windows Store game to sell more than 20 copies.

 

[oldmanpaco]

and people in China can't even buy games from it.

Always fucking the china man over! Goddamn this makes me so angry!

 

[Stokowski]

Thought I read somewhere that it was a one year exclusivity deal for Epic and the Microsoft Store. Which is fine by me. Can purchase it from my vendor of choice after a year when on sale price and the bugs have been ironed out.