Yeah, in general a multistore release will always tend to do way better on Steam than on EGS due to multiple factors like accessibility (devs can generate Steam keys for free and sell them wherever they want, which tends to better deals outside the platform holders platforms), in-platform options (like screenshots, forums or reviews) and most importantly, familiarity with the environment.
IDk about why Bandcamp's owners sold, but I agree that this is why Epic acquired Bandcamp.
Ugh...So that's why they got ahold of Bandcamp, to use it as a bargaining chip((((((((((
Just another billionaire mad that someone, anyone, even if that includes another billion dollar company, getting a piece of the pie.
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Bino. That's what all this phallic sword fighting is all about.Billionaire found a way to avoid paying royalties to platform owners in order to earn even more money. What a great world we live in.
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The Salt and Sacrifice price has gone up significantly in some countries, with Brazil seeing nearly a 3x price increase over its original price due to requirements to match prices in all regions on all platforms.
I wonder how much of Steam's crappy regional pricing can be traced back to Sony (and possibly MS) flexing their potential MFN muscles. I'm sure most of it is publisher greed, but it raises an interesting point I've never considered before.[Updated] Salt and Sacrifice Price Changes Happen At Launch | TechRaptor
The Salt and Sacrifice price has gone up significantly in some countries, with Brazil seeing nearly a 3x price increase over its original price due to requirements to match prices in all regions on all platforms.
The Reddit post makes me think the game is fundamentally flawed. All the money in the world can't save bad ideas.
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More like developers getting early access to money. I've gotta give it to developers who run Early Access for precisely 12 months without taking any feedback from the community or running regular updates, only to hit 1.0 at the most fortuitous of times: when there's money to be made on Steam - they certainly grifted Epic.earliest access
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This. While I don't care about EGS and it's exclusives anymore (I just blacklist them forever), it's damn sad to see people supporting or even defending it Even my colleagues caved in for Tiny Tina, despite hating Epic's money hatting.
The Epic Store won't accept 'crappy games,' says Tim Sweeney.That Evil Dead game is out on EGS as well. People are reporting bugs and issues all over the internet. No review codes were sent before release. EGS is such a wonderful addition to PC gaming
EOS? More like POS.
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Hope they saved up the exclusivity money, cause it's not going to get any better until it's out elsewhere on PC.
The Alan Wake Remastered "exclusivity money" was entirely for the purposes of making and marketing the game. They probably spent it all on that.
You can bet your ass this will end up coming to Steam at some point, maybe not a year but at some point and I have said this a lot of times (and some of you don't agree, that's ok) but in the long term this is about making money so once they see they make more money by expanding they will do this with all games.
Yeah it will happen. But Epic releasing a game on Steam will be an admission of defeat, so I expect it will be a long wait.
You may be right, but I don't think so. As long as Epic gets billions of revenue from Fortnite, they won't release any of their published games on Steam.
I keep on wavering back and forth about EGP games on Steam, but I remember that Tim Sweeney is the guy who has willingly kept his game off iOS even when Apple offered to put the money in an escrow while the trial played out. His idealism trumps pragmatism.
Fortnite won't be profitable at the same level that it is now, forever, and engine fees aren't going to fill that kind of hole.
I believe many things Epic is doing - including their attacks on Steam and Apple and acquisitions of studios and Bandcamp, is in favor of their Metaverse plans in the near future. Epic wants people to buy games, music and apps in their Metaverse and not anywhere else. No doubt they will also use exclusivity to achieve this.
More or less I expected this answers hehe ^^
Sony is spending money to keep 3rd party games (like Final Fantasy) away from PC for some time, but are releasing their own games on PC.
True. But Sony isn't on some weird crusade against Steam. Epic's money hatting is another level compared to Sony's exclusivity deals that impact PC. Most of their deals only affect Xbox. I don't think Sony sees Steam as their direct competitor.
If Sony don't see PC/Steam as a direct competitor, why are monehatting some 3rd party games away for some time?
That doesn't happen a lot iirc. Most 3rd party moneyhats don't affect the PC version. FF7 remake is the only recent exception I can think of. Not sure what the reason for this was. It may just have been related to Square's greed.
I know it was already said earlier in this thread, but yes, Epic most likely bought Bandcamp to use as a tool in their litigation and they're pulling the same stunts they did during the Apple trial.
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it gets better:It seems enabling cross-play with EGS in Risk of Rain 2 disables the Steam overlay and replaces it with the EGS overlay. Looking at the ridiculous amount of games that switched to EOS lately, I really don't like where this is going.
For what it's worth, I just tested this. Even with Steam/EGS cross play enabled, I didn't get an Epic overaly, but I don't have EOS or the Epic launcher installed. I assume that the EOS overlay overrides the Steam overlay if a user has those programs installed (which is really scummy).It seems enabling cross-play with EGS in Risk of Rain 2 disables the Steam overlay and replaces it with the EGS overlay. Looking at the ridiculous amount of games that switched to EOS lately, I really don't like where this is going.
I can also confirm this. Having crossplay disabled gave me eight pages of results while having crossplay enabled gave me less than one page.
At least the cross-play can be disabled... for now. As I said, I don't like where this is going. EGS account is already mandatory for the Steam version of Fall Guys.
I think the main reason a lot of devs is switching to EOS is mainly because its crossplay functionality since no other services provide crossplay unless the devs build it themselves. So unless there's other new online services provider or existing ones update to have crossplay support, smaller devs will continue using EOS for their gamesIt seems enabling cross-play with EGS in Risk of Rain 2 disables the Steam overlay and replaces it with the EGS overlay. Looking at the ridiculous amount of games that switched to EOS lately, I really don't like where this is going.
I love the World of Darkness, so was pretty disappointed when it was revealed as an EGS exclusive... But after I watched someone streaming it last night, I just want to express my gratitude to Tim for saving me $56.99CAD, cause I would've bought it day 1 otherwise!
The coupon was changed from a flat $10 to 25%, which means it was nerfed for cheaper items and buffed for more expensive items. Looks like the belt tightening has begun.
