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Epic Store will stop exclusives if Steam changes revenue split, CEO says
FlyByKnight
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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has been making some bold claims on Twitter, which is always fun for spectators and perhaps terrifying for investors. Once again, the subject is the Epic Games Store's divisive exclusivity strategy, which has ruffled feathers while taking a fair number of prominent games off Steam. Sweeney claims all of that will end if Steam commits to an 88 percent revenue share for developers.
Source: PC Gamer
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Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
Grasping at straws I say.
You do realize that Epic Games has been battling the 30% issue for a number of years now? It wasn't big news until Microsoft tried pushing new rules onto windows game development to use their store. Tim Sweeny wrote a big article about it and how Microsoft was trying to strongarm developers into using their store so they could earn a profit from their work. When they released Fortnite on mobile they deliberately avoided the Play Store, would have done the same with iOS except, well we all know Apple is king at ripping people off. They also didn't put Fortnite on Steam because of it.
I know you guys think Epic Games is anti-consumer, but you are really really missing the big picture.
Epic's Sweeney's attempt of "Hey players, it isn't your fault & it isn't ours neither even though we made the decision but we're going to have to burn you players so blame Steam."
Again, I understand Epic Games' stance, & other developers, & even agree with Steam probably taking too much of the financial pie, but Epic Games' chose to deal with it with this "exclusivity" method so reap the pros & cons that go along with it. This method isn't good for players/consumers & Epic Games kew that & went ahead anyways.
Take your patronizing bullshit & ChiCom spyware and shove it up hard, Epic.
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Valve simply has to compete by taking the same cut Epic/discord are taking. Furthermore, Valve has gotten lazy over the years. They don't even develop games as a source of revenue anymore, its all just easy "distribution" money (that 30% cut). Maybe them taking less will encourage them to finally give us Half Life 3.
If you have a better product, better splits, live and die by your sword. Steam is standing firm so do the same.
The fact that they're even putting this out there like it's some crusade for justice is laughable and insulting to anyone with sense. First injecting and initiating exclusivity wars into a general market (not talking about studio made games), then having the f#$%ing nards to make demands like they have hostages?
For me, now it's F#$% EPIC, and the collateral damage. Now I want to see them all crash and burn. That Fortnite money has definitely gone to somebodies head. Totally routing against, and I won't deny it.
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It’s about money. This is just marketing, like watching a beer commercial. Most people understand that you don’t actually get surrounded by half naked women while white water rafting just by drinking Budweiser.
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Does that help Epic? The dev's? Steam? Or none of the above?.
By pushing their games to the Epic store and their own, they make sure that they get Epic money, plus, the people who will not touch Epic give them 100% of revenue by going directly to the Uplay store.
Not really, I have said it before and will say it again I am not a fan of any platform. I prefer no platform tbh so I am not for grasping at or looking for anything...perhaps you should stop grasping at straws yourself?
No I didn't realize anything at all, like I said I kind of dislike gaming platforms and think it's pretty silly needing to start a "platform" to then start a game when we could all just simply start the game right from our desktops via a shortcut but hey I'm old so...I do think steam does take too much of a cut but then they also seem to provide a big userbase. Now if epic is really trying to fight for the "little guy" against some kind of monopoly and strong arm tactics like MS has been doing well koodos for them. That said age and experience has thought me to be skeptical of white knights riding in on their white horse to save the day without any ulterior motives...
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
That being said, like Asm0deus above, I despise ALL platforms like Steam, uPlay, Origin, and GoG's Galaxy. Only ONE of those is optional, and I don't use it. HDD storage is cheap. I have no troubles keeping the games I buy on my own. I don't need help from a storefront.
Epic's CEO is not going to do anything for the consumer. He is in full damage control mode right now.
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Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR