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0 pointsRealStickman_5y ago0 comments

The exclusivity deals were disruptive because they took games that were promised to come to steam and made them exclusive.

The customer has no benefit from the lower cut epic charges.

Epic doesn't treat everyone equally. Big games like Cyberpunk 2077 are allowed to also sell on other platforms, while smaller games either go exclusive or go with everyone else.

Competition is good, but I'd rather have GOG be that competition to Steam than Epic purely based on their anti-DRM stance.

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eropple5y ago

I don't much care for EGS, but Epic is paying small developers a lot for that exclusivity. In the current indie market, that chunk of change can be the difference between profitability and failure.

johnnyanmac5y ago

Or, as the above user put it, the difference between making a creative masterpiece or a clone made to exploit the system.

Wowfunhappy5y ago

> Epic doesn't treat everyone equally. Big games like Cyberpunk 2077 are allowed to also sell on other platforms, while smaller games either go exclusive or go with everyone else.

There isn't a conspiracy here. Epic pays developers to make certain games (like Control) temporarily exclusive to EGS. Other developers, like CD Project RED, have not made such a deal, and thus Cyberpunk 2077 is available on many different PC game clients.

There are plenty of games on EGS--large and small--which are not and have never been exclusive. Examples include The Unfinished Swan, SuperHot, and Axiom Verge just to pick three off the top of my head.

RealStickman_OP5y ago

I meant the case of DARQ, where the developer was specifically told to either go exclusive or every other store with no possibility of selling on EGS and other stores. [1] According to the article other indie games got similar offers, while the big budget ones can go to multiple stores.

[1] https://www.dsogaming.com/news/epic-games-wanted-darq-as-an-...

ThatPlayer5y ago

To me, asking smaller games for exclusivity is just asking for commitment. One of the reason I don't buy games on GoG anymore is that the developers don't commit to updating their GoG version to keep parity with other versions of the game.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_that_treat_gog_custo...

RealStickman_OP5y ago

I didn't know that. Thanks for that list.

lagadu5y ago

Should we also rail against Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo for paying developers to make games exclusive to their platforms?

RealStickman_OP5y ago

No, because it's clear from the beginning what platforms their games will support. That wasn't the case with Metro Exodus [1] for example and one other indie game I can't remember the name off.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/metro-exodus-pulled-from-s...

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eropple5y ago

I don't much care for EGS, but Epic is paying small developers a lot for that exclusivity. In the current indie market, that chunk of change can be the difference between profitability and failure.

johnnyanmac5y ago

Or, as the above user put it, the difference between making a creative masterpiece or a clone made to exploit the system.

Wowfunhappy5y ago

> Epic doesn't treat everyone equally. Big games like Cyberpunk 2077 are allowed to also sell on other platforms, while smaller games either go exclusive or go with everyone else.

RealStickman_OP5y ago

[1] https://www.dsogaming.com/news/epic-games-wanted-darq-as-an-...

ThatPlayer5y ago

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_that_treat_gog_custo...

RealStickman_OP5y ago

I didn't know that. Thanks for that list.

lagadu5y ago

Should we also rail against Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo for paying developers to make games exclusive to their platforms?

RealStickman_OP5y ago

No, because it's clear from the beginning what platforms their games will support. That wasn't the case with Metro Exodus [1] for example and one other indie game I can't remember the name off.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/metro-exodus-pulled-from-s...

account425y ago

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