most devs like user reviews. Most devs WANT user reviews. because they can wither point to a good percentage as proof of a good game, or can point to an upwards trend when the first version of the game didn't meet expectations. For most devs who can't get an MC or OC review score, it is the only thing they can point to that their game is good and a standout from all the other games released.
Thanks a lot for your tl;dr, I really appreciate it
- EGS revenue is much less than expected
- only 3 games reached the minimum guarantee so far
- epic recovered less than 37% of the money they spent on MG's
- they are phasing out 3rd party exclusives, probably because publishers are rejecting them
- epic paid lots of money to PC Gamer to promote EGS during the PC gaming show
- one of the main goals of EOS is to kill Steamworks
- epic wants to make EGS more popular by paying influencers
In other words: still a complete shit show
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It matches with what I've heard, basically EOS and media will be the new battleground. It won't be as flashy as exclusives every month but more like a silent war for the ''backbone'' structure of PC games, trying to get EOS on as many games as they can and then use the money to push for influencer and media to advertise the store or only talk about the EGS version of the game.
- EGS revenue is much less than expected
- only 3 games reached the minimum guarantee so far
- epic recovered less than 37% of the money they spent on MG's
- they are phasing out 3rd party exclusives, probably because publishers are rejecting them
- epic paid lots of money to PC Gamer to promote EGS during the PC gaming show
- one of the main goals of EOS is to kill Steamworks
- epic wants to make EGS more popular by paying influencers
In other words: still a complete shit show
You're correct. One of the presentations from September 2020 shows they have had more success with MGs in general. I remember reading a deposition from one of the store operators that they have generally been more successful recouping MGs lately.
Sadly Valve is too passive to do anything to counteract EOS. I really do not want to have games go down whenever there is a Fortnite event or be strong armed into making an Epic account. Rocket League and Fall Guys requiring Epic accounts already left a bitter taste in my mouth.
To be honest, I don't see this as a really bad thing? it's a different type of war that doesn't affect most of us and we saw that once media don't get the paychecks, they stop talking about anything to move to the next thing.
I disagree. I want as little to do with Epic and their services as possible. I'm aware I can't completely avoid them since Unreal Engine exists, but the less I interact with them the happier I am. I already find it obnoxious that I am getting prompts to sign into Epic with a game I bought on Steam, and it's only going to get worse in the future when Epic pushes their account services.
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According to the OP on reddit it was in the documents. But these docs were from early 2020, so perhaps there are more titles at this moment. It's probably still a very small minority.
Epic's initial strategy was to convince devs and publishers to abandon Steam, not to provide us as consumers with a valid reason to use EGS over other storefronts. This is scummy as hell imo, therefore I hope Epic never becomes a major player in PC games distribution.
pretty much, as I said, their freebies is a way of weekly engagement alongside coupons (if done) so it's a way to ensure people will revisit your place at least from time to time and it's also a way to ensure media talks about you because, let's be honest, only time they talk about this store is when freebies and that's pretty much about it.
Yeah, I understand the reasoning behind it (negate Steam's games library advantage) but giving so many games completely free doesn't get customers into the habit of buying.
Exactly. It keeps more and more people from actually buying indies/singleplayer games because they are expecting to get them for free later.
Shenmue III being free on Epic.
Which was one of the main points of Tim's frequent rants against Steam, lol.
Ugh, Steamworks really needs something to compete with EAC - VAC just isn't doing it and it seems to be a big component in developers picking up EOS. EOS games generally have much worse support for Steam Input / input devices, cloud saves, and Proton, all of which matter for me.
I was skimming through one of their documents (again) and on page 7 they mention spending on free giveaways until 2025 (under the Free Game Buyouts tab). Looks like they're cutting their budget though as the free game buyout is only $20 million a year from 2022 onwards. They spent $17 million on giveaways in 2019, and planned to spend $129 million in 2020 and $40 million in 2021.
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It's the follow up to Hyper Light Drifter.
I think they're publishing this game too since the EGS Twitter page retweeted this and Embark Studios has showed up in their database.
Halving the Free Game spend makes me think they will possibly drop the number of games per week and/or stop doing free giveaway events like the X days of Christmas.
The moment they stop the free game giveaways, is the moment their store is largely forgotten. Everyone expects the $10 coupons too, so that can’t end either if they hope to sell some games.
Timmy blew his entire budget on a bunch of Nomura games that are years old due to other exclusivity deals, very sound investment.
You might have spoke too soon since the Star Trek game and Rumbleverse were announced as exclusives.
The utter brazenness to sell a port of a 2 year old game above full price is astounding. Is this like "we know that barely anyone is actually going to buy the game, so let's make it super expensive to fleece the few suckers who will fall for it"?
I hope the PC gaming community ignores this game as hard as they did with Kingdom Hearts. I'm so done with Square Enix, they won't see another cent from me in the near future. What a shitty, greedy company they are.
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It will be an enormous flop if so.Sadly Square never does above 50% for Japan IP for PC/Steam, so 40€ will be chepeast it gets.
Well if you look at it in a 3 dimensional way
