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Ge0force

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Epic is NOT paying that much money nowadays, they can't pay Witcher to stay out of steam.
Don't forget that Epic is phasing out the money hatting in favor of their publishing label, which is VERY attractive for devs. If Epic is publishing The Witcher, and it's very likely they've offered this to CDPR, a Steam release is rather unlikely.
 

gabbo

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Interesting that CDPR is not only going to use UE5 instead of their own engine, but that they also entered a collaboration with Epic to help with the development of UE5 (worth noting that CDPR already confirmed that the new Witcher game will not be exclusive to any store).

I'm okay with this all around. More witcher, a better unreal engine, what isn't to like? CDPR doesn't need Epic money so I don't see any reason to worry about it not being on Steam, for those who are steam-only.
 
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Don't forget that Epic is phasing out the money hatting in favor of their publishing label, which is VERY attractive for devs. If Epic is publishing The Witcher, and it's very likely they've offered this to CDPR, a Steam release is rather unlikely.
They can offer it to CDPR, but they know where their bread’s buttered and they also like to sell games. I doubt they accepted.

It’ll release on Steam. People should stop worrying about this.
 
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Don't forget that Epic is phasing out the money hatting in favor of their publishing label, which is VERY attractive for devs. If Epic is publishing The Witcher, and it's very likely they've offered this to CDPR, a Steam release is rather unlikely.
This isn't happening, CDPR is not only a big company but also a public traded one with tons of variables that do not fit within the aspect of things of this label, the same wording was used for Sony and here we are.

It's technical assistance and engine switch for multiple projects, nothing else.
 

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ANNO: Mutationem seems a mixed bag. I don't like the obvious skeletal animation in the pixel art, where it's used. It feels inconsistent as the wandering about is 3D but the action segments purely 2D. It has low/no AF so things at an angle have very obvious blurring (most of the content is facing the screen the way it's created, still it's full 3D spaces so you inevitably see it). The controls feel needlessly complicated with both RB and A (some times other buttons too) used to accept/progress through different dialogues and other screens. The face buttons are otherwise largely unused outside combat, even the walking is set to LB and there's no analog control (so even weirder you can't use the d-pad instead). Initially it wowed me, it seemed so stylish and cool, but after that these things were kinda grating. Also the world is totally full of stuff so if you don't wanna miss lootables you'll be going all over the place tapping R1 (rather than wait for an indicator to pop up as you run past, which also DOESN'T show for some objects) rather than just take in the environments. I hope the game shines through after you get used to these quirks. Otherwise it 's a bit like Cloudpunk's walking bits with side scrolling action segments on top. Cloudpunk was more instantly great.
 
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ezodagrom

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Don't forget that Epic is phasing out the money hatting in favor of their publishing label, which is VERY attractive for devs. If Epic is publishing The Witcher, and it's very likely they've offered this to CDPR, a Steam release is rather unlikely.
As others have said, it's not a publishing partnership, but a technology one. CDPR will assist Epic with the development of UE5 while using the engine for multiple games.
 

PC-tan

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I didnt know GabeN worked on Windows 1.0
He worked on the first 3 versions of it.


One of the MS executives told Gabe to either work or get the hell out (he was not employee and was just hanging out with his brother, who did work there) and Windows was the first thing that he worked on.


By the way I don't understand the Easter egg.
 
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I woke up this morning with thought how we didn't see bug new Nvidia feature/tech related to games in a while. They stopped adding features to Ansel, DLSS is kinda on cruse control, Control Panel still looks and performs like ancient thing...

I wonder what and when we will see from them next. Can they figure out DLSS updates without developers so we are not stuck with older versions in games? Can Ansel get improvements?
 
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Looks like we are getting a "Once Upon a Time..." game, it just popped up on Steam and it's possibly the most random thing I have seen in quite some time, A BLAST FROM THE PAST! :blobmorning2:

 

EdwardTivrusky

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I only vaguely remember that show after searching for it. I don't think it was a big thing in the UK unlike a lot of other european educational cartoons.

 
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ezodagrom

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I woke up this morning with thought how we didn't see bug new Nvidia feature/tech related to games in a while. They stopped adding features to Ansel, DLSS is kinda on cruse control, Control Panel still looks and performs like ancient thing...

I wonder what and when we will see from them next. Can they figure out DLSS updates without developers so we are not stuck with older versions in games? Can Ansel get improvements?
They added DLDSR back in January, and also a few filters for freestyle (SSRTGI, SSAO, dynamic depth of field), though support for those filters is very limited.

As someone that plays games in 1080p, I'm not interested in DLSS, instead I wish NVidia would be giving DLAA as much attention as DLSS is getting...
 
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fantomena

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A few days ago I wrote this post:

Im taking a break for ER. Game is so damn big, over 60 hours in and still way to go. Dark Souls 3 have 66 hours on Steam from 3 playthroughs. Gonna take a break with some smaller games, then get back to ER after those.

The game is fantastic, but need something else right now. Never have I felt a game is being so good, but yet so big, I got tired of it. It's sound negative, but it really isn't, I just need something else that is also a lot shorter to play through.
But I realized it's not ER it's about, it was about gaming as a whole, I took a break from playing games and every day that goes I find myself more and more motivated to play games, which is good (been watching AP Bio and Chicago Med instead of playing games). But Im still not at the stage where I can play games yet.

So I learned from myself that If I play too much (like 5-8 hours) over the course of just 2-3 days, I get really tired from playing games.
 
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thekeats1999

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you'll never guess where it's launching on PC

:toucan:
I mean, I can understand taking that wedge of cash, but when you are releasing a multiplayer game on a platform that seems to struggle to sell new games unless there is a voucher floating about then you are a fucking moron.

Also, with this being a licensed product, this only has a finite shelf life.
 

lashman

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I mean, I can understand taking that wedge of cash, but when you are releasing a multiplayer game on a platform that seems to struggle to sell new games unless there is a voucher floating about then you are a fucking moron.

Also, with this being a licensed product, this only has a finite shelf life.
that's like the third game they made that's egsclusive, i think it's safe to assume all of them will be
 

Ge0force

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I am beginning to think the PC version is only there to help fund the console versions. Because they can not seriously be expecting to expand the market on PC by making most of the PC players wait a year.
This. Any devs still signing EGS deals nowadays don't give a shit about PC gamers playing their games or not. And I don't give a shit about these games either 😉
 

fantomena

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Remember Arcageddon? I didn't either until I went to their website.
Due to Epics lack of organic traffic, I have difficulties finding the game on google. I try "Arcadegeddon" and first page is about Armageddon, next page Google "fixes" the search to Armageddon. I try "Arcadegeddon game" and I get Armageddon game with a link to the Steam page for Worms Armageddon.

It is literally difficulty to find the Epic page for the game by googling. Since Epic has a manual discovery on the store, you won't know it exists.

So honestly, I have no idea how people today who has never heard about the game will find about it's existence, only chance is if Epic manually puts the game up on the store front page, like in the carousel.

An Epic exclusive indie game that hasn't already hadd a massive amount of marketing like Darkest Dungeon 2 or comes from a super known dev like Supergiant games, will find it really hard to be discovered on the Internet.
 

Alextended

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Did you type it right? Arcageddon isn't, arcadegeddon brings up the correct results for me (without custom cookies etc.), first videos, then the site/epic pages. Of course marketing is about making you learn of stuff you don't already know the name of to deliberately search for them and I didn't know this one is a thing.
 
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