That's extremely unlikely. These coupons are probably responsible for the majority of the sales on EGS. No doubt we will see more coupons around Christmas.
They should be doing something now and christmas. Without coupons people don't have much inceentive to buy on EGS over Steam and they both have event sales now.
Perhaps their holiday sales will be much bigger? Also, we have no idea how EGS is doing at the moment. Epic may already have a loyal fanbase because of their exclusives, free games and coupons. We honestly don't know. But the fact that Epic keeps doing these things must mean something.
I suspect the lack of coupons has to do with CP2077 meaning it might be a while until they give them out again. I don't think CDPR wants coupons to be used on the game and is okay with it to be removed from the store while coupons are activated, but Epic might still want to sell the game, so they simple won't have coupons for a while.
Nobody even posted the sale on Era or /r/GameDeals. Coupons and Giveaways are the only thing keeping them relevant. It was pretty obvious this was gonna happen. People think they're entitled to coupons every sale now and are gonna bitch about it constantly. If they stop the giveaways people will bitch endlessly about that too.
True. But if Epic keeps doing this for a few more years, they've created an entire generation of gamers that has the majority of games on EGS.
Maybe, but their end goal is not something I care much about because I can't change their end goal in any way afaik.
Perhaps you can't change their end goal, but you can have an impact on the chance if Epic will ever reach this goal. In fact you're already doing so by waiting a year to buy Epic's moneyhatted games on other storefronts. T[UWSL]he strong sales of former EGS exclusives on Steam are proving you're not the only one. Time will tell if this is enough to establish a true multi-store future for pc gaming. [/UWSL]
Agree with everything but C&C Remaster. The pathing was so bad at launch that it became my first refunded game, and I'm a HUGE RTS fan.
I don't see how having more options is a bad thing. [UWSL]Many people prefer GoG over Steam for example, and it's unlikely game pass would have been on pc if Microsoft didn't have their own store/launcher. [/UWSL]
And I want all my games in one location Gog Galaxy is a poor compromise.
Bossa probably got lots of money from Epic for the exclusivity deal. Rumor says Epic pays as much as the developer expects to earn with the game during the first year. When the game releases on Steam, they get even more money.
Without exclusivity deals, you can have all your games in one location when multiple launchers exist. That's what I meant with "choice"
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Oh I agree, it is terrible.
Yeah I think they should have fixed it. It's just unplayabe compared to modern RTS that do not have your tanks going across the entire map, through enemy territory getting destroyed without firing a shot, with the turret pointing to where you gave it a command to go.
That's what I'm saying. How is a company going under after EGS has bankrolled them?
If what I read is true (the source is 4chan) they voluntarily become EGSclusive without any moneyhat.
If it was without moneyhat, they'd definitely not have exclusivity clause preventing release on other stores, in case it goes south. (Right??)
And to be more precise, their own PR confirmed that the exclusivity would last 12 months, so a deal in place is highly probable, doubt they would choose a 12 month exclusivity without breaking it in case there were poor sales and no deal in place.
the higher ups clearly drank the EGS koolaid. Less competition = more exposure = more sales+people will follow the games..
They would have to be blind or be a gammon who finds everything fake-news to drink the EGS propaganda after more than a year of failed exclusives on EGS.
deal could have been in the works for a while, and i hav to imagine there are clauses built in for reneging on the agreement
We actually have no idea how many EGS exclusives failed on EGS. Sweeney said the majority of games sold conform the sales projections, but there's no way to verify this.
I am not speaking about signing deals in exchange for money. That will still be the """""obvious""""" course for devs who deliver non-quality products or don't have faith in their sales projections.
And I have already something ready (BTW, the real birthday would be Dec.18 when the first wave was announced and the first games released
I don't think we'll see huge changes in the near future. An entire generation of young gamers owns the majority of games on EGS because of the giveaways, coupons and exclusives. I expect Epic to continue this for a few more years.
Here's a question though, do people actually play these games? Or do they park the freebies in their backlog and never engage with them? Will this generation of young gamers actually buy things on EGS?
Who knows? When I was young and poor I'd have jumped at getting a free game.
When I was young (in the 90's) I had to buy games for 40 to 50€ and otherwise rely on gaming magazine freebies, pirated CD's (Civ 2 without videos for 10€ on the playground!) or beg my uncles.
[UWSL]I can't answer that question, because we have no useful data for EGS. We know that millions of people claimed free games like GTA5, Football Manager and TW Troy. We don't know how many of these people are actually playing these games. [/UWSL]
I'd say no. Back then there weren't many free to play options. Nowadays you have plenty, no matter the platform you're playing on.
That would only matter if EGS had even a fraction of the available PC games in the store. the AAA PC gamers are only a fraction of the market. GAAS, with its hundreds of millions of gamers and the thousands of niche games that have thousands to tens of thousands of gamers themselves, are the majority.
You post reads like the future of Steam is doomed and that Steam are just for old people when games like Fall Guys, Among Us, Phasmophobia has shown it's the opposite. I literally have people in the class Im teaching part-time in that uses Steam for games (right now they are very into Among Us), these people are like 15-16 yo.
The kids of one of one of the guys at work (who If I'm not mistaken should be 15 or 16) "build" (it's in quotes because we had some interns at work built it a few years ago) a gaming pc (just a side note: he sold a perfectly functional 2070 to try to buy a 3070, don't let kids get into shiny new hardware hype but i digress) and obviously he's not playing that many EGS games with that pc
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