I find it very funny that Tim Sweeney is basically getting scammed by publishers who offload their turds onto EGS and get a disproportionate payout for it.
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I'm not sure how reputable this user is, but if SR's budget was actually >$100 million, I can see why they took the Epic payout. Don't forget the contract was signed as far back as 2019 when Epic was on a giant spending spree. They spent $869 million on exclusives in 2019 (Minimum Guarantee tab).
At least another indie dev was saved by epic
I knew the game was gonna be bad from the gameplay videos, but not this bad lol. Kinda fucking nuts if they wasted at least 120 million on this game.
i find it kinda funny that jurnous see this "outdated gameplay" thing only in case of certain IP and not in others 
Mechanically from what i saw its basically SR1 but with zoomer cast and tons of bugs.
Ultumatly especially with so many bugs mentioned it whole feels like unmarked early access ... aka the usual with EGS
Mechanically from what i saw its basically SR1 but with zoomer cast and tons of bugs.
Ultumatly especially with so many bugs mentioned it whole feels like unmarked early access ... aka the usual with EGS
According to the /r/EpicGamesPC discord, Saints Row doesn't have cloud saves and is using the old EGS achievement system.
Saints Row starts out with a 3.8 rating. It's currently the 4th lowest rated game on EGS.
Lower than Godfall. Quite the achievement
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Saints Row is down to a 3.70 and is currently the worst rated game on EGS. Congratulations?
The fact that such a disappointing and buggy game still gets 3.7 stars out of 5, shows how useless Epic's rating truly is. This is in no way an alternative for the Steam reviews.
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Saints Row is down to a 3.70 and is currently the worst rated game on EGS. Congratulations?
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Ratings for all games in Epic Games Store (Until it broke Github) - nikop/epic-games-ratings
Saints Row is down to a 3.70 and is currently the worst rated game on EGS. Congratulations?
i can bet epic paid bungie to publish the game on egs
Probably now they need to paid some devs with popular games just to publish on egs (without exclusive deals)
Destiny 2 skins will be added to Fortnite soon. No doubt this will make plenty of money for Bungie as well.
I'm pretty sure Bungie had previously said that they were willing to expand beyond Steam like 2 years ago. Plus they are under Sony now and Sony releases all of their games on both.
The Sonic Frontiers trailer only showed the Steam logo. That would be pretty weird considering Colors was EGS exclusive and Origin came out on both Steam and EGS.
That would be pretty weird considering Colors was EGS exclusive and Origin came out on both Steam and EGS.D2 has been on the Windows Store for awhile. I'm looking at the EGS backend and it's been there since last November. I'm pretty sure Bungie wants D2 everywhere and will eventually make a cloud version for Switch and other cloud platforms like Amazon Luna.
Fair enough. It said PC Game when I last checked the site.
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This one flew under the radar but it's EGS exclusive.
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This one flew under the radar but it's EGS exclusive.
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Do I want to add it to the spreadsheet? I guess I will lol
Also, as mentioned previously seems like deals are mostly pre-covid and now most will be multistore or Steam only.
When it showed up during the Keighley stream I thought the trailer was a small commercial for a mobile game like the Red Bull ad that was shown.
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I got to say I'm glad this was dismissed, the idea of anyone (and especially corporations) being able to copyright short simple movements and sue if someone else uses them is a nightmare scenario.Lawsuit over Fortnite dance dismissed by court
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I completely forgot about it, but GalCiv4, sequel to one of the most belowed space grand strategy games, released many months ago exclusively on Epic Store and noone is talking about it.
It's timed btw, the devs said to expect a Steam release in 23.
It's timed btw, the devs said to expect a Steam release in 23.
Yeah I too had no idea there is a GalCiv 4.
I don't buy games from Stardock. Fuck Brad Wardell, for so many reasons.
I had played hundreds of hours of GalCiv 2
But everything going on with that developer soured me on their games.
Same. I loved GalCiv2. Ended up crowdfunding 3 for a bunch and then... never played it. Brad Wardell reminds me that I shouldn't ever bother.
But 4 coming out and then... nothing, isn't super surprising at this point. Blackhole and all.
It looks like Epic have changed the authentication for EGS, breaking Legendary/Heroic launchers in the process. Steam Deck users no longer have access to EGS, which is a wonderful way for Epic to make their customers not want to buy any more games on their store.
Given this is Epic, this could just be them changing something, or them intentionally breaking third party launchers out of spite.
Given this is Epic, this could just be them changing something, or them intentionally breaking third party launchers out of spite.
And that's why you don't rely on unofficial third party solutions.
It is guaranteed to break sometime. Guess it will get fixed and break again sometime in future....
It's very likely that Epic did this unintentionally, but either way doesn't paint the company all that well. It's either incompetence or malice and it's pretty annoying.
Let's give them a few weeks and see what happens. Heroic team has worked pretty quickly in the past to restore behavior and, frankly, I think Epic should probably thank heroic for providing a much better user experience than the official windows client even!
As someone who has been running this linux stuff for a long time, I wish we could live in a world where 3rd party clients aren't necessary. However, solutions like Lutris have always been a decent middle ground where they don't outright replace the client but do provide a consistent working environment that's easy to reproduce.
The EGS change hasn’t just broken Heroic/Legendary. It’s also broken the EGS games plugin for Playnite. So Epic have literally just broken a whole bunch of people’s setups on both Windows and Linux across several different apps.
I read over several Steam reviews and most of the complaints seem to be it feels unfinished, the gameplay isn't very deep and the water graphics are poor. Still kind of funny to see such a massive discrepancy.
The Microsoft Store version has one review.
People who refunded a game or decided to quit after less than 2 hours aren't even able to vote. This makes Epic's ratings completely worthless, and shows once more that EGS is designed to please the publishers instead of consumers.
Or Epic is bullshitting the rating system just like they do with the top seller list.
Even after 2h, you still have to win right to rate the game.
It could be easily be manipulated, too.
And someone who rates negatively on Steam might choose 1, 2 or 3 on EGS.
It could be easily be manipulated, too.
And someone who rates negatively on Steam might choose 1, 2 or 3 on EGS.
The EGS version of Splitgate was cancelled:
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guess what ....
barely anyone of the "concerned" jurnous that were riding the drama for weeks back then was even arsed to review the actuall game when it hit v1.0
barely anyone of the "concerned" jurnous that were riding the drama for weeks back then was even arsed to review the actuall game when it hit v1.0
To be fair, its release is like a fart in the wind at this point. And they clearly never made good use of Early Access period and have released a mediocre game.
like yes, but i dont mean the score at all ... i just mean the number of reviews... the drama was ridden for months on pretty much every major site ... and currently out of them only Gamespot dared to do the the review
The game spent a very long time in EA and didn’t really make good use of it. There was no sense this game was culminating to a big 1.0 release and all interest in it evaporated long before they got there.
When there are more games releasing each month than even the big sites can keep up with, something has to give and Ooblets had its day in the sun when it entered Early Access and turned out to be mediocre.
Why would anyone bother going back to a game that they found boring 18 months ago just because the developers stuck 1.0 on it after a long period of radio silence?
To get away with being Early Access on EGS you have to be Hades. This game ain’t that.
On a personal level, while I don’t endorse any of the harassment they got, when the devs made that blithely rude blog post I just thought “fuck those guys” and stuck the game on ignore.
I’ve not seen anything in the intervening time that has endeared me to the game or its developer.
When there are more games releasing each month than even the big sites can keep up with, something has to give and Ooblets had its day in the sun when it entered Early Access and turned out to be mediocre.
Why would anyone bother going back to a game that they found boring 18 months ago just because the developers stuck 1.0 on it after a long period of radio silence?
To get away with being Early Access on EGS you have to be Hades. This game ain’t that.
On a personal level, while I don’t endorse any of the harassment they got, when the devs made that blithely rude blog post I just thought “fuck those guys” and stuck the game on ignore.
I’ve not seen anything in the intervening time that has endeared me to the game or its developer.
To add to this, they have already said they are focussing on releasing on the already released platforms for the time being. So even if you where interested in the steam release you won't be getting at launch.
All I can say is good luck to them. I have lost any interest in your game I may have had. Which wasn't a great deal to start with admittedly.
All I can say is good luck to them. I have lost any interest in your game I may have had. Which wasn't a great deal to start with admittedly.
Ooblets will just end up in the EGS marketing black hole anyways. I didn't even know it released.
IIRC, there was a document from the Apple trial that said the exclusivity period for Ooblets would be 2 years or one year after 1.0 release, whichever is longer. The Steam version won't come out until next year, if it ever comes out.
Also Epic helped them draft that dumb blog post. Tim Sweeney's "IT WAS AWESOME" tweet was the cherry on top of that train wreck.
Also Epic helped them draft that dumb blog post. Tim Sweeney's "IT WAS AWESOME" tweet was the cherry on top of that train wreck.
Even if it does poorly on EGS (currently 29th place), it is 6th on the overall Nintendo eShop charts. While there are PC games with similar aesthetics that can do well (i.e. Dinkum), Ooblets seems like a game that would resonate better with the Switch audience.
The games industry (of which games media is very muchlike yes, but i dont mean the score at all ... i just mean the number of reviews... the drama was ridden for months on pretty much every major site ... and currently out of them only Gamespot dared to do the the review
I truly hope that the whole situation nas been a learning experience for the developers. I harbor no ill will towards them, I think they fell victim to Epic's propaganda and honestly thought that the people protesting Epic's shitty practices were just a handful of GamersTM.