So this is Epics hail mary for EGS huh? Will be interesting to see their numbers next year.
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Bleh, flipping awful news they may be announcing more exclusives. I keep hoping they drop this strategy, I cannot stand it.
It just sounds like their own game festival. They'll probably have some of the same games featured in Steam's recent game festival.
Edit: Tim mentioned approaching more developers earlier in their dev cycle compared to in the past where they would poach nearly finished games. That's not quite as obnoxious compared to just going to the Steam top wishlists and going to town. Still not a fan of exclustivity, but it is a bit more tolerable.
Meh. Bring it on, Sweeney. Burn through more cash for this dumb venture.
I, for one, welcome the 1 year beta tests on EGS
Can't really see any big moneyhats from them the rest of the year.
Maybe Dying Light 2 or FF7R? Maybe another extension for the Ubisoft deal.
It will probably be smaller titles with some big freebies + shopping cart announcement to end the show lol.
Maybe Dying Light 2 or FF7R? Maybe another extension for the Ubisoft deal.
It will probably be smaller titles with some big freebies + shopping cart announcement to end the show lol.
For the sake of everyone's health and well being, I sure hope so.
I had to reply to a post on era about the "exclusives sell platforms" (EGS) and the featureset can be ignored (Steam) notion.
Nintendo and Microsoft prove that this opinion is wrong. All the exclusives of the world can't save a bad Platform, or the WiiU and the XboxOne would have been smashing successes.
Instead, Nintendo reinvented themselves and invested into features, QoL, and technology that wasn't available yet.
The same with Microsoft, they didn't came back to their feet (kinda, the future will decide it) because of exclusives, they became relevant again and did grow their business because of aa new feature/software: GamePass.
Exclusives can only hold the status quo but it doesn't really expand the userbase. (Console userbase is stagnating/shrinking since the 360/ps3/wii days)
Nintendo and Microsoft prove that this opinion is wrong. All the exclusives of the world can't save a bad Platform, or the WiiU and the XboxOne would have been smashing successes.
Instead, Nintendo reinvented themselves and invested into features, QoL, and technology that wasn't available yet.
The same with Microsoft, they didn't came back to their feet (kinda, the future will decide it) because of exclusives, they became relevant again and did grow their business because of aa new feature/software: GamePass.
Exclusives can only hold the status quo but it doesn't really expand the userbase. (Console userbase is stagnating/shrinking since the 360/ps3/wii days)
Well, clearly, as we have seen in the annual report, that's NOT the case for everyone
It isn't the case for decades. When was the last time an underdog won a platform war through exclusives? PS1?Well, clearly, as we have seen in the annual report, that's NOT the case for everyone
All other examples of gaining ground (360/Switch) or winning the war (Wii) were through hardware gimmicks.
Someone pm this SteffK guy to join our community. His comments are spot on.
Epic Store Will Have More Exclusives Than Ever In 2021/2022 News
More EGS exclusives are coming soon folks. I'm more interested in their publishing investments, studios will greatly benefit from their support and that's good.
WOW SO MANY FREE GAMES
Anyway, the only new thing I learned from this thread is that Jobbs' game is called Ghost Song, which has been moved to my ignore list already.
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You dont know about Ghost Song?Someone pm this SteffK guy to join our community. His comments are spot on.
Anyway, the only new thing I learned from this thread is that Jobbs' game is called Ghost Song, which has been moved to my ignore list already.
That is a game that been in development for a few years and is gonna struggle on steam due to being a metroidvania style game in a platform that already has lots of metroidvanias released on it for the better part of a decade.
Someone pm this SteffK guy to join our community. His comments are spot on.
Anyway, the only new thing I learned from this thread is that Jobbs' game is called Ghost Song, which has been moved to my ignore list already.
Are you talking about the same game ? All I can find with the Ghost Song name is this :
Developped by Old Moon aka Matt White, can't find any reference to Jobbs here, am I missing something ?
I predict: many b-tier Nacon and Embracer games that they know will fail so they may as well get a cheque from Timmy to write off the expense.
Reviews for Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood are very very poor.
Can't believe such a bad game is available on EGS
Can't believe such a bad game is available on EGS
Swansong by devs of The Council got an eggpage (scloosied by a trailer back in July)
www.epicgames.com
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I expect a lot of this, already known exclusives getting updates.Swansong by devs of The Council got an eggpage (scloosied by a trailer back in July)
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Pre-Purchase and Pre-Order Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong today from Epic Games Store! Don’t miss out on playing Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong when it launches!
Hopefully by Epic doubling down on exclusives they mean more Nacom crap nobody wants
That's the game. Jobbs confirmed it in that thread.
My guess goes to Payday 3 and the upcoming game from Tripwire (Killing Floor 3?).
State of stores in the industry...!
Take a look at the state of your own store Timmy.
Take a look at the state of your own store Timmy.
Maybe not in this presentation (as I don't know how far they are in development) but those two are safe bets as they match some requirements they have been following since day 1.
-Youtuber/Streamer content
-Easy to sell to younger audiences
-already known and successful previous entries
-in the case of PayDay, troubled development.
I forgot that had been snatched up.Swansong by devs of The Council got an eggpage (scloosied by a trailer back in July)
Pre-Purchase & Pre-Order Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong PRE-PURCHASE - Epic Games Store
Pre-Purchase and Pre-Order Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong today from Epic Games Store! Don’t miss out on playing Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong when it launches!
I can't believe they're going to announce the Steam release date at the Epic Showcase.
Again, more and more this feels like it will be full of updates for current EGS games and new exclusives won't be that many.
there will be exclusive, I'm sure, hll, I will even say that probably an AAA, but again, this feels like what I said.
There are 2 dlcs left, phase 3 (was suppose to release at the end of december) and phase 4 which is more of an "expansion". I expect release date for phase 3 and tease of phase 4. I don't expect a Steam release until all DLCs are out, but I will be positively suprised if it happens before.
What's going on with Ghost Song? I'd been looking forward to that if it ever releases. I can't seem to make myself wade through another mess of an era thread.
From my understanding Jobbs is perfectionist to a fault and has switched engines like 3 times? Something along those lines.
He has a publisher and is aiming for a 2021 release so eh
More like Ghost game. Well at least it's still going, I guess. I'm following a bunch of games like that, where that style is so old now they're not going to sell anything.
I'll be more surprised if it is not EGSclusive to be honest, but you're right, there's nothing confirmed.
lots of the for example epic megagrants titles that have use "Epic Games" company logo in trailers arent :egg:sclusive
Ghost Song developer Jobbs is one of the most persistent "it's just another launcher" apologists on Era, while ignoring every argument that has been posted over and over again.
People like him are the reason why I left Era, so I don't feel like giving him my money.
Ah I see. Well, he can think what he wants. As soon as he releases it on my preferred launcher, I'll check it out. (in 2028)
I have asked in the Steam forum of Ghost Song and he answered that the game won't be an EGS exclusive. I REALLY hope that is true.
Maybe Epic didn't want it? Epic apparently denies almost everything.
Crossing fingers and hoping Tim has snatched Crash 4 from Battle.net.
Crossing fingers they don't do that. It'd just lead to higher pricing here. Tony Hawk's regional pricing is horrendous but Crash's isnt despite both being $40usd
This probably means Epic rejected this game, which makes it even more ridiculous that the developer is so vocal in judging people for boycotting EGS.
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