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Yesterday, Phoenix Labs raised a few eyebrows with the announcement that it would be migrating Dauntless to the Epic Games launcher and that the Epic Store would be the exclusive PC platform. After learning that the process to migrate to Epic, players expressed concerns that player information was being shared with Epic without their consent. However, this is not the case and devs have some clarification to offer to players.
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i'm going to boycott anything that ends up exclusive on epic store from now on. they could have exclusivity on warcraft 4 and lineage 3 and i would, with a heavy heart, not buy it from them.
Joined - July 2004
I make spreadsheets at work - I don't want to make them for the games I play.
What makes epic store doing what everyone else has been doing to years so special? Guess doesn't help with every news media and youtuber running with this for clicks and views.
I just laugh every time i see some crap like this.... welcome friends, somehow you've woken up and realised something perfectly normal that has been happening for years on launchers like your precious steam launcher lol.
what the fuck are you babbling about ?
there is a difference between EA using origin (or blizz/acti with bnet) to sell their own shit or steam selling games on their store and epic bribing devs to sign exclusivity contracts especially on digital-only goods with no box sales to have a drm-free alternative.
i can buy my games on steam or gog or even in a box at the store like a caveman but if it's exclusive to epic store i lose those alternatives. do you understand the difference or do you need a drawing ?
exclusivity is not the future of pc gaming and i fucking hope game journalists/influencers get a little more vocal about that or it will be the same as loot boxes and DLCs where they just got along thinking it won't do much harm and boy were they fucking wrong about that.
makes me miss totalbiscuit even more cause i'm pretty sure he would have been pretty mad about that whole ordeal
I won't support this agressive approach.
"What happens if I don’t migrate my account?
Migrating your account is the only way to ensure that all your progress from Dauntless carries over after we launch on console and the Epic Games store."
You seem to have some sort of personal gripe with Fortnite. Did someone dance over you after they killed you or something?
They haven't abandoned Gears, and it is still an ongoing IP until they say otherwise.
The only thing that did this was VR with Oculus. They stopped you from playing games on any other VR headsets...that pissed me off. I think ive grown used to there being so many store fronts now even if i still mainly only use steam, but again, its just another dumb launcher and you have no hardware restrictions. At worst it will be a minor annoyance, at best it will create real competition for Steam so it makes them do better (and god knows they need to stop slacking) or even lower prices.
tell that to people living in poor countries that won't be able to afford games because epic regional pricings are absolutely not reasonable. we (western european and american for the most part) tend to forget that but some countries have exceptionally low minimum wages (ukraine's for instance is 118 euros/$135 monthly ... let that sink in).
I guess they have fn and that's what got them to this point but I need to remind folks Epic games is absolute trash in how they handle anything other than fortnite.
So have fun with that.
Luckily Dauntless is trash too so I don't think this will help them. I mean it didn't help paragons did it?
I like Epic's "Pro developer" focus, but their methods of bribing left and right gaming companies to get their games exclusive to their platform (while i understand their reasoning for doing so) without offering anything new to the consumer that steam already offers will only create more backlash.
The games they give for free is a start but after subnautica and super meat boy, they really lowered the quality of what they're giving.
They really should rethink their strategy but that's just my opinion.
There are a few problems with this entire process.
1 It is not fair to Epic if they offer a better deal to developers but devs still turn around and use Valve and pay Valve more for doing the same thing.So without thinking of any negatives,this was the right move by Epic,they get something out the deal themselves ,as they should.
2 The negative side of exclusives is ZERO competition on pricing,they can jack the price up to no ends and both the dev and seller would be happy but consumers screwed over big time.
IMO exclusives are a form of monopoly.A business can ensure with enough money and power to lock up an entire industry and then force prices with no market competition.
It is not likely to ever happen but let's say they get into a war,Valve comes back after losing 75% of it's market and offers 8%,then Epic says 5%,back n forth until one gives in and the other takes over the entire market,aka monopoly.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
according to some people who went over there to claim the games, they said that the games were removed from account if they were not previously installed.
I can see at least some short term opportunities for Epic to make more money here.
For the Dauntless devs, having their game on the Epic Store will greatly increase their game's visibility, more so than it would on the Steam store. Epic's store has a small volume of games, so it won't get drowned like it would in Steam.
Epic also has a pretty massive playerbase, across platforms (like Dauntless is aiming to be), and Dauntless is free so it's bound to attract a fair amount of players who might be curious about the game and willing to spend some money too. Now whether they keep playing for longer than a week, well that will depend on the developers I suppose.
A single game on a single platform in one part of the world means, as you say, its never likely to happen.
I get where you are going with this but for the life of me I can't never remember a title being a steam exclusive. There may have been some here or there but I just can't remember anything worth my time to look at. Almost ever major game I bought from them was also on other sites such as GOG, ect...
This whole idea of exclusive crap is a problem for everyone. Just look at the crap they do on consoles these days. Oh you want this game you have to buy this console ect... Oh you want this game you have to download our partners store. Now a year later we have decided to make our own store. Now 10 years down the road every single developer launches every game on their own store where you have to have their own launcher running just to play games.
I will stick with the one I already have installed that I leave running that updates all the games I play without me having to worry about it. Not going to have god knows how many launchers running just to keep games up to date myself. Ever go to play a game to see oh you need to download that latest 4 gig patch, you can play tomorrow since you only had a limited time to play today.