I wonder if it sold that bad that they didn't manage to recoup the exclusivity money so now it's free to get another cash injection from Epic.
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I honestly expect a few of their games to be EGS exclusive.
Hopefully they are smarter than that.
People should stop expecting games to be EGS exclusive. Games will be exclusive when it's announced.
People went around expecting, even "begging" for Horizon Zero Dawn to be EGS exclusive. It isn't.
People thought Avengers was gonna be EGS exclusive or Square were gonna make their own launcher for it. It isn't exclusive.
From what I've read on Twitter, EGS freebies deals has nothing to do with other games from the same dev/pub.
People went around expecting, even "begging" for Horizon Zero Dawn to be EGS exclusive. It isn't.
People thought Avengers was gonna be EGS exclusive or Square were gonna make their own launcher for it. It isn't exclusive.
From what I've read on Twitter, EGS freebies deals has nothing to do with other games from the same dev/pub.
And was unanimously declared "shit" by French video game medias.
People across forums on the Web. People love bringing console war-style trolling to the PC community.
I've seen a lot over at the Resetera forums in particular. Pathetic to say the least.
The Witcher 3 sales thread was highly entertaining as well.
The PC platform being very much thriving seems to ruffle quite a few feathers especially from those fragile plastic warriors.
well square is sually so frihggin random with their PC releases that i find it quite unlikely :-D
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This is very likely. Last thing Epic needs is devs going out of business after going EGS exclusive. But this definitely wasn't the reason for WWZ going free right before the exclusivity deal ends. Epic probably wants to cripple sales on Steam even more.
Well, i bought it last year when it was cheap in sale and it was ok, not "shit". It is a light horror walking sim with good graphics. Seeing it now as totally devalued is interesting. I hope the devs learned something.
I guess no one will buy it now once it will release on Steam.
could go badly if you choose the wrong game. Dunno about WWZ and definitely not Close to the sun, but if a game is free less than a month before it releases on Steam and then does gangbuster on Steam.. it would be the final nail in the coffin for the Image and Narrative of the EGS.
i can guarantee you Close to the Sun won't do gangbusters on steam
Yup. Generally mediocre games don't do so hot a year after exclusivity started. At this point taking another fat stack from Epic is probably the most financially prudent thing for the developer/publisher to do in this instance.i can guarantee you Close to the Sun won't do gangbusters on steam
New EGSxclusive.
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A game, in a genre that does not have many new entities but is beloved by many people is exclusive to Epic?New EGSxclusive.
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I'm shocked about how clever the idea is. This has never been tested before and will surely work out great for the devs*.
*It won't
oh by devs of Offworld trading company (no surprised as it was freebiewd)... loooks , surprissingly bad :-(
Lets hope it will be at least solid when the early access and early egsess ends
Lets hope it will be at least solid when the early access and early egsess ends
I'm a huge Offworld Trading Company fan, not a big Civ fan (4X games get old fast). I wish Soren the best of luck but this new game doesn't sound like my cup of tea.New EGSxclusive.
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That said, I hope he talks about it on his Designer Notes podcast (or similar medium) since it should be pretty interesting.
Someone in the PCEra discord was talking about the beta back in February (IIRC) and mentioned that the codes were for EGS. So they weren't exactly subtle about it going EGS exclusive.New EGSxclusive.
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I hope EGS is dying as fast as this thread 
Kinda ironic, the less activity there is in this thread, the better.I hope EGS is dying as fast as this thread
It's clearly running out of gas. Care to tell me the big 2020 EGS exclusive thus far ?I hope EGS is dying as fast as this thread
None. Last year Control, The Outer Worlds + Quantic Dream games to name a few.
I think the last big batch of exclusives are going to be the ones that were nabbed mid-development and still have a few years to go.
Well they normally used the PCGamingShow at E3 to show how many titles they gobbled up, and the entire industry has had to reconfigure given the covid outbreak, so they may be sitting on some things but are waiting for an industry showcase to do so. Then again, If other devs don't know what they're doing when it comes to announcements (WB, a media empire),I can't imagine Epic is any better off in this regard.
Also, those games their publishing from the ground up, they'll be a ways off since full scale development likely hasn't been underway on any of them for more than a year
edit: Maneater is suppose to be out soon, but im I think I'm one of like 3 people on here and the other site that are looking forward to it.
No E3 or Gamescom for them to brag about exclusivity so I do wonder how they'll go about announcing big exclusives - if they have any left lol.
At this point I just expect Epic to shift torwards just funding games instead of buying exclusivity, which is fine.
At this point I just expect Epic to shift torwards just funding games instead of buying exclusivity, which is fine.
Nobody is making any big announcements right now, so I would be careful about reading too much into the fact that epic isn't either.
Right, I forgot about Covid-19. The less EGS exclusives the better.
And those who want to buy from Epic instead of Valve can still do so regardless.
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When is the next Steam event that isn't a sale? I feel like that would get them the most exposure AND do it under the nose of the 'enemy'.
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JC4 should come with W10 as a bonus for bothering to download the game at alllooking on reddit and all the problems .... nah they got what they wanted
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Can they do that? It doesn't affect me but it seems rather sleazy to ship on an OS and deprecate it later on. Especially when said OS is as riddled with issues as 10 is.
I believe they will continue to do both. Exclusivity is Epic's long term strategy to beat Steam.
With a stick.
The only thing that has changed since the Epic store launched is that now we have Xbox games on Steam, PS4 games on Steam and they're starting to hold fucking digital conventions on Steam with Demos, panels and stuff.
So yeah... it's working.
Here's a haiku:
Exclusives don't work
There is no Epic success
Refrigerator
Exclusives don't work
There is no Epic success
Refrigerator
I was surprised to read on the other forum that EGS only released 7 (seven!) exclusive games so far this year. No wonder they did another round of coupon giveaways earlier this year. Half of the games in their top selling list are Ubisoft games sold at dumping prices. 
Luckily, so far this hasn't worked out for them except for Ubisoft and 2K.
www.pcworld.com
I guess Epic expects/expected devs and publishers to dump Steam for EGS because of their perks for developers (higher cut, free engine, free cross-platform features etc). Remember how Sweeney said the "store war" will be decided by developers and not by us as consumers?
Luckily, so far this hasn't worked out for them except for Ubisoft and 2K.
And yet we have "journalists" claiming we have Epic to thank for this
A year in, the Epic Games Store’s fight against Steam has made PC gaming better for everyone
As the Epic Games Store turns one, we look back at a year of exclusives, free games, and—most shocking of all—how competition seems to have reinvigorated Steam.
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That PC World article is unbelievably dumb. Truly painful to read.I was surprised to read on the other forum that EGS only released 7 (seven!) exclusive games so far this year. No wonder they did another round of coupon giveaways earlier this year. Half of the games in their top selling list are Ubisoft games sold at dumping prices.
I guess Epic expects/expected devs and publishers to dump Steam for EGS because of their perks for developers (higher cut, free engine, free cross-platform features etc). Remember how Sweeney said the "store war" will be decided by developers and not by us as consumers?
Luckily, so far this hasn't worked out for them except for Ubisoft and 2K.
And yet we have "journalists" claiming we have Epic to thank for this
A year in, the Epic Games Store’s fight against Steam has made PC gaming better for everyone
As the Epic Games Store turns one, we look back at a year of exclusives, free games, and—most shocking of all—how competition seems to have reinvigorated Steam.
It is, especially because the amount of concurrent RDR2 players on Steam was multiple times higher by the time that article was published. And claiming that Epic has anything to do with EA returning to Steam is drain journalism at its best '
But for some reason, non-gaming focused pc and tech sites keep writing this kind of nonsense articles. I wonder how many of them are written by Epic-sponsored authors.
I don't really think Epic has a "long term" beyond the publishing deals.