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Digoman

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honestly i'm not sure i even want a new Dragon Age ... not from the current-day Bioware ... under current-day EA
Well, with the news of the reboot, GaaS focus and Mike Laidlaw leaving let's just say I'm also not very hopeful for next DA game, even if I thought Trespasser left things on a very interesting place...

And so the EGS speculation goes into full speed. Maybe that will cost them so much that will make Sweeney think if all of this is worth it ... (yeah yeah... let me dream a little).
 

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And so the EGS speculation goes into full speed. Maybe that will cost them so much that will make Sweeney think if all of this is worth it ... (yeah yeah... let me dream a little).
well this snippet is directly from source code of their own little launcher (thats been used for MP3 and GTA5) ... so if anything its gonna be like boobisoft
 
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I'm not surprised at all that Remedy is having financial troubles, I'm more surprised they're still around. And I would've expected MS grabbing them considering they've worked with them for so long. Which might actually be the reason why they're staying away. Don't get me wrong, I love their output including (albeit to a lesser degree) QB but their games somehow always miss the mark comercially, even the Max Paynes didn't sell all that well.

I'd rather they went to Sony than Epic. There's a chance I'll buy a PS4 or PS5 someday (I want the former, but it's expensive here), but there's no way I'm ever using EGS.
A console costs ~200€ after a few years.
Staring into Tim's eyes costs everything.
 

Li Kao

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I received this now


Excited!
Received mine yesterday, but I gave GOG the cold shoulder since then. They must understand my feelings were hurt by not being accepted sooner.
Mostly joking, France is a giant oven and I don’t even have the will to games anymore.
 

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I actually don't care a lot about RDR2 so for me it really is just speculation :p

But also, how goes the saying.... "it's not paranoia if they really are after you?", and you can bet Tim is going after it.
The fact that you want people to guess and have a discussion on if they or won't they regarding RDR2 is you fueling paranoia.
Drop it and leave it be.
If it comes to Steam and Rocksteady's service, it goes there. If releases on EGS, it releases there, it sucks but don't waste your braincells on on pointless shit like this for weeks and months to come.
 

Rosenkrantz

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Nah. Let Sony have them. At this point I want to see epic ruined and Timmy as a bum on the streets in a alcohol induced delirium mumbling to himself what fool he was. Fuck epic.
Timmy would feel on 8 billion dollars on the day we die. He would be sitting in his expensive chair, drinking finest Spanish wine and smoking the best Cuban cigars, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!
 

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But also, how goes the saying.... "it's not paranoia if they really are after you?", and you can bet Tim is going after it.
Can we leave tone policing on Era too? :whistle:

Nobody wants to be paranoid, ok? It's just the result of the current situation.
Is it really tone policing when everyone is in on this shit? At some point, it's better to just wait for an announcement instead of making every steam release a conspiracy where Epic takes it.
 
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Rosenkrantz

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If Epic's ready to drop the amount of money which is going to be equivalent to a mildly successful box-office to a blockbuster movie on one game, then sure, RDR2 is going to be absolutely huge. T2 would be dumb as rocks for taking it though, unlike Private Division stuff, RDR2 is going to sell a ton of copies on Steam and will be a top seller for years to come.
 

Digoman

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The fact that you want people to guess and have a discussion on if they or won't they regarding RDR2 is you fueling paranoia.
Drop it and leave it be.
If it comes to Steam and Rocksteady's service, it goes there. If releases on EGS, it releases there, it sucks but don't waste your braincells on on pointless shit like this for weeks and months to come.
You are being somewhat aggressive for what I thought was a innocuous off hand comment. I don't want to start anything because as I said I actually don't care a lot about RDR2.

But it also wasn't my intention to drag down the thread, so no problem... I will "drop it".
 

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would be interesting what would be the "time" for it ... when even BL3 its just half a year unlike year for the rest of them ... and RDR2 would be much much bigger than some Blands
Would it be? BL2 sold like 10 million on steam and still went 6 month timed exlclusive on egs. Red Dead is nowhere near as popular as GTA too.

2k is kinda dumb so I wouldn't be surprised if they dragged R* into this mess as well.

I think the problem for R* would be that their big moneymaker in the game will be the online mode and the biggest playerbase possible would be the smart thing for them to do. Meaning it should release on all pc platforms day 1.

Borderlands has the luxury of selling you new dlc and goty editions next year which is where they'll make a ton of $$$ off steam users.
 

NarohDethan

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I can't even imagine how much money it would cost to have RDR2 as an exclusive.

Also, Accomplishment is such a terrible name.

I've become somewhat indifferent to EGS exclusive games. For me those might as well not exist.
 

SRossi

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You are being somewhat aggressive for what I thought was a innocuous off hand comment. I don't want to start anything because as I said I actually don't care a lot about RDR2.

But it also wasn't my intention to drag down the thread, so no problem... I will "drop it".
nah don't drop it. tizoc is weirdly against epic talk, i don't know why. but yeah he is sometimes passives and sometimes less passive aggressive about it.
 
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I might actually buy rdr2 on Steam. Never been too interested in gta, but being a bearded cowpoke sounds somewhat appealing. Though sadly I've not played the first game.

Also I get where tizoc is coming from, can't escape epic nonsense anywhere these days. I blocked tim and sergey on twitter but it doesn't help when people will paste their latest shit tweet in discord and/or forums. There's no escape.

But I'm not a forum cop, all you all can talk about whatever you want. I'm just exhausted.
 
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nah don't drop it. tizoc is weirdly against epic talk, i don't know why. but yeah he is sometimes passives and sometimes less passive aggressive about it.
To be fair, this isn't the EGS thread and there have been multiple pages in here already circling around Epic. It's a little tiring sometimes. And it's not the first time I've seen "exclusivity paranoia" mentioned. It's really not healthy to worry about that. I'm not sure if it's the same member. If not, there's someone else worried about that here, and it's best not to fuel it further.
 
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Li Kao

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Needless drama imho. Tizoc has said his opinion, other people that don't share it have done so, let's move on. And follow Tizoc advice, or not. This is not a hive, everybody has a right to his opinion. We are not right now at the point where any ruling is needed I think.
 

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Talking about Rockstar, I really dislike the fact that they never cared to implement Steam achievements in their older games (GTA3, VC, SA, Bully). I mean, if they are updating those to remove the licensed musics they could also add Steamworks features to those so the updates aren't just they taking things from the games. I also don't like the fact that Liberty City Stories has been updated and ported to phones but not PC.
 

Rosenkrantz

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Considering what Microsoft is doing with their Games Pass and getting their library on PC, I wouldn't worry too much. If Sony acquires more studios, they're still going to almost certainly want to find a way to also push their stuff onto more devices (PC included) to keep up with MS. Even if it's just some kind of adjustment to PS Now.
Yeah, the paradigm shifts and corporate bosses will have to change accordingly. Sooner or later the costs of development will be too high to solely rely on one hardware to make profit.
 
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SRossi

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To be fair, this isn't the EGS thread and there have been multiple pages in here already circling around Epic. It's a little tiring sometimes. And it's not the first time I've seen "exclusivity paranoia" mentioned. It's really not healthy to worry about that. I'm not sure if it's the same member. If not, there's someone else worried about that here, and it's best not to fuel it further.
tbh he was one of the major reasons there is an egs thread. i didn't want one, epic does not deserve its own thread(s) and i only want to talk about epic in the aspect of how epic is influencing and manipulating my steam experience so it's more of a steam topic (for me).
 
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nah don't drop it. tizoc is weirdly against epic talk, i don't know why. but yeah he is sometimes passives and sometimes less passive aggressive about it.

Honestly, Tizoc has a point, even if maybe he's a little to aggressive about it at times. :p Pretty much every single game announced since the EGS was lunched had someone saying "well, I'd like to be hyped about this game but I can't because Epic might grab it" and it's really killing the fun of talking about games for everyone. Until something gets announced as Epic exclusive, we should avoid all this kind of talk because it's really a buzzkill, or go to the Epic thread for that.
 

Rosenkrantz

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Yeah and considering the obvious connection MS has by virtue of connections to the world's most popular OS, it's obvious that Sony (assuming they aren't total morons) won't want to allow MS to have unchecked market control over PC. Might take a few years, but I'm fairly optimistic that most of their next wave of acquisitions won't end up as complete console exclusives.
The real question is, how long it will take big N to catch with trends?
 
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SRossi

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Honestly, Tizoc has a point, even if maybe he's a little to aggressive about it at times. :p Pretty much every single game announced since the EGS was lunched had someone saying "well, I'd like to be hyped about this game but I can't because Epic might grab it" and it's really killing the fun of talking about games for everyone. Until something gets announced as Epic exclusive, we should avoid all this kind of talk because it's really a buzzkill, or go to the Epic thread for that.
is it the talk about it or is the realistic possibility that is the buzzkill? I get your (and tizocs) point, but honestly, when this is not the most important topic currently, i don't know what is and not talking about it doesn't help. (imo)
 
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We already have the EGS thread for those who want to engage in self-flagellation over the mere possibility of games being exclusive to that store. There's no need to do it here.
 
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Rosenkrantz

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They'll hold out the longest because they have the gimmicky/different hardware to fall back on. But they'll come around too in a generation or so I think.
That's a good estimate, it took them generation to move from cartridges to disks, then another to implement HD graphics, so, it would be par the course for them.
 
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Hektor

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You can't ask people to fake excitement over a game when they simply don't feel excited due to current happenings.

I can totally understand that it can be grating, because it is, and id rather not have to think of it too, but the simple reality is that the EGS and exclusive deals are a thing right now, and a thing that does affect how people see announcements and the platform as a whole.

Asking people who feel wary or uneasy about it to stop posting their opinions or woes because of it being a buzzkill isn't much different than disallowing folks from sharing negative opinions about upcoming games.

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EdwardTivrusky

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Just joined the High Roller Club with 1K games and it was either "QP Shooting Christmas" or "Trouble Witches & DLC" that did it.
I'm going to assume it's "QP Shooting Christmas" for great Pudding!
 

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I don't even really mention EGS that much myself until someone starts talking about an upcoming JP game and the possibility of it finally being the one to get snatched.

Honestly if it's such a bother just put me on ignore. I'm so tired of being told what to say and where. It's bad enough I'm constantly punished on Era for the most innocuous shit, I'm not gonna deal with it here too.
 

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My master plan to amass $15 before sales' end. This way I can get SNK 40th or Spyro for cheaper >=3
Wait, do those stack? Because it would be worth my time to start reinstalling games I've 100%ed the achievements for.

If that's already been answered, just tell me to drop it. :drinking-blob:
 
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