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Arulan

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Pathetic attempts at being cute will only serve to make me think twice about supporting you in the future.

That's the beauty of there being more good games now than anyone can ever play -- you can always wait, buy it at the deepest discount later, or skip it altogether pretty easily.
 

lashman

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I'll say it again. I've never understood why people thought Devolver were 'cool'. They are your Wendy's tier - corporate Twitter account trying to act like a human.
it's kinda the same situation as with volvo

except volvo have never (intentionally) fucked their customers over .... that's not really something you can recover from once you do it ... especially if you try to build your entire "brand" (i fucking HATE that word) on being customer-friendly
 

lashman

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Swenhir

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Does anyone feel like the writing is on the wall at this point? While I don't want to rush to conclusions, it seems like EGS is all but done for as this point, at least judging by publisher's and developer's actions. High-profile announcements the likes of which we had 8-9 months ago are all but gone. Public personalities are done trying to pretend it's about the little guys and competition. Even the media is pretty dreadfully silent. The only deals still coming through are those that were likely closed at least half a year from now.

The last, pretty miserable swan song of EGS seems to be "multi-store future" as if they are playing up their legacy while quietly preparing to bury the store.
 

lashman

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Does anyone feel like the writing is on the wall at this point? While I don't want to rush to conclusions, it seems like EGS is all but done for as this point, at least judging by publisher's and developer's actions. High-profile announcements the likes of which we had 8-9 months ago are all but gone. Public personalities are done trying to pretend it's about the little guys and competition. Even the media is pretty dreadfully silent. The only deals still coming through are those that were likely closed at least half a year from now.

The last, pretty miserable swan song of EGS seems to be "multi-store future" as if they are playing up their legacy while quietly preparing to bury the store.
... or they're preparing something BIG (like a huge dump of egsclusive announcements at some event or something ... instead of just trickling them one by one every few weeks)
 

Ge0force

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Does anyone feel like the writing is on the wall at this point? While I don't want to rush to conclusions, it seems like EGS is all but done for as this point, at least judging by publisher's and developer's actions. High-profile announcements the likes of which we had 8-9 months ago are all but gone. Public personalities are done trying to pretend it's about the little guys and competition. Even the media is pretty dreadfully silent. The only deals still coming through are those that were likely closed at least half a year from now.

The last, pretty miserable swan song of EGS seems to be "multi-store future" as if they are playing up their legacy while quietly preparing to bury the store.
It's extremely unlikely Epic will give up so easily. I'm pretty sure they'll keep giving away games for at least one more year, and I expect more moneyhats for AAA games, using the X times more active players for BL3 to prove that people don't care. I also expect them to continue cloning Steam in higher tempo.

The most interesting moment will be when they open up their store for everyone. I'm curious how many devs will drop Steam without moneyhat. I don't think Rami will be the only one to do so.
 

Alexandros

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Does anyone feel like the writing is on the wall at this point? While I don't want to rush to conclusions, it seems like EGS is all but done for as this point, at least judging by publisher's and developer's actions. High-profile announcements the likes of which we had 8-9 months ago are all but gone. Public personalities are done trying to pretend it's about the little guys and competition. Even the media is pretty dreadfully silent. The only deals still coming through are those that were likely closed at least half a year from now.

The last, pretty miserable swan song of EGS seems to be "multi-store future" as if they are playing up their legacy while quietly preparing to bury the store.
One thing's for sure: With Microsoft, Bethesda, Bungie and EA having a strong presence on Steam, Epic's plan to starve Steam of big releases has utterly failed. I don't know how they can come back from this.
 

Alexandros

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hopefully they can't
I think that's the logical conclusion at this point. With most publishers back on Steam, Activision not selling games on EGS and Ubisoft being on uPlay too, they will have to rely on indies, some AA stuff and the rare big game like Borderlands 3 to try and get people to buy from them. Even if they do, which based on what we've seen so far is not very likely, they won't be able to make a dent in Steam's place on the market. I'm curious as to how Sweeney is planning to retaliate because right now it seems like he's screwed.
 

lashman

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I think that's the logical conclusion at this point. With most publishers back on Steam, Activision not selling games on EGS and Ubisoft being on uPlay too, they will have to rely on indies, some AA stuff and the rare big game like Borderlands 3 to try and get people to buy from them. Even if they do, which based on what we've seen so far is not very likely, they won't be able to make a dent in Steam's place on the market. I'm curious as to how Sweeney is planning to retaliate because right now it seems like he's screwed.
yeah, things certainly don't look great for him right now

and i don't think throwing even more money at publishers will do him any good ... if it was going to work it would've already ... and i don't think it has
 

Alextended

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It was never happening anyway, it's not like most truly big publishers went to Epic, it was basically Ubisoft (and they did it to just go to their own platform watch them go back to Steam in a few years like EA maybe) and far smaller ones. Either way. When there was that clearly paid-for stream of social/media talk about the lack of big releases on Steam it had been just after games like Resident Evil 2 and they were completely out of their minds to even suggest it >_>
 
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texhnolyze

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Anyone has an idea when did the last time Epic announce a big game exclusivity? RDR2 doesn't really count as they never actually announce it as an exclusive.
 

Cordelia

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It was never happening anyway, it's not like most truly big publishers went to Epic, it was basically Ubisoft (and they did it to just go to their own platform watch them go back to Steam in a few years like EA maybe) and far smaller ones. Either way. When there was that clearly paid-for stream of social/media talk about the lack of big releases on Steam it had been just after games like Resident Evil 2 and they were completely out of their minds to even suggest it >_>
Well Gearbox is quite big. But it's more of Randy's personal vendetta against Steam I think.
Anyone has an idea when did the last time Epic announce a big game exclusivity? RDR2 doesn't really count as they never actually announce it as an exclusive.
Borderlands 3?
 
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Alextended

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I was talking Capcom level, SEGA, Microsoft and such. Multiple studios, tons of games, plenty AAA products to go with it and so on.

And they only got 6 months of BL3 and it's still just one product, it could be an one-off like games like RDR2 for all we know despite Randy's shiftiness.

Edit: I actually wrote Sony would count but it's not like they brought Spider-Man to EGS and then I remembered it wasn't even Sony, those guys went indie.
 
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Cordelia

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That was in April, right?

So yeah, it's been a very long time since they announced their last big exclusive. Hopefully they've run out of money to do that anymore.
Running out of money is impossible because Fortnite. Running out AAA games to moneyhat probably. How many indies goes EGSclusive these past six months?
 
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Alexandros

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By securing more exclusive. Like Death Stranding of FF7R.
They can, but one big game each year isn't nearly enough to create any sort of momentum. Mainstream gamers will buy the game, play it for a while until they finish it then go back to buying everything else from Steam and forgetting that EGS exists.
 
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texhnolyze

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Running out of money is impossible because Fortnite. Running out AAA games to moneyhat probably. How many indies goes EGSclusive these past six months?
Fortnite has been in decline, both in popularity and revenue. They know that they can't pay for exclusivity forever, especially with the current situation. The first half of 2020 is already packed with AAA games. Late 2019 like now should be the perfect time to announce them to build up hype.

Regarding indies, there were several egsclusive announcement for them, but about half of them are only early access exclusive.
 

Cordelia

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oh, they absolutely will ... that's why i'm thinking there weren't any big announcements for a while - they're saving all of them for The Keighleys™
If that happened I fully expect Death Stranding and FF7R. Maybe Kingdom Hearts too.