![]() I'm against the concept of exclusives, period. If devs took advantage of even a fraction of what steam offers it would not only save them money (probably enough to offset than 18% extra cut) from their own hosting and licensing costs, but would add so many more features for their community as well. The Epic Store supports not even what most would consider the bare minimum. I understand the cut that they want, however Steam has immensely better service and features, everything from server hosting and matchmaking, ban handling, forums, mod distribution (big one here), lots of optional features that devs can put into their application (which do not make it require steam to use unless they program it to do so), in addition the devs are allowed to give away or sell steam keys on other services (as long as they also sell on steam for the same price) at no cost (steam takes no cut, yet the game still supports full features), as well as just so much more that I'm leaving out for brevity sake. However I care about platform features and I can see where most of 30% Valve gets are spent. It's a huge dealbreaker for me, I only use linux.Īs a consumer I don't really care about developer's publisher's cut. That's not a huge dealbreaker for me, I triple-boot anyway and I still mostly game on Windows. You'd understand more if you knew more about Epic-the-company, they've long been slow on development (though that was primarily on engine work in the past, rather than a store). They have already missed deadlines on their roadmap and fixed that by removing dealines. It doesn't look like they want to improve their platform. I don't understand how did Epic release their platform in such state in late 2018. Hopefully I have explained my thoughts on it. (however I do like itch.io model unlike EGS) I don't use itch.io either, but has sent an initial implementation and now we are working on itch.io integration in #65. Where did I say that? I said I don't want to implement it myself since I don't use EGS, don't like it and wouldn't be able to test integration. On the other hand EGS doesn't look any more appealing compared to torrent. In a last few years Steam and GOG did fully convert me from being a pirate into a paying customer. I'm sure I probably won't play even half of my games in my lifetime. I don't care about their free games, I have large enough libraries on Steam and GOG. I also wouldn't mind if their own games were EGS exclusives, like Valve own games are Steam exclusives and EA games are Origin exclusives.īut I care when game that was marketed on Steam, that was available for preorders on Steam or that I have wishlisted on Steam suddenly moves to EGS.Īnd after all of that I don't have any reason to even try EGS. I wouldn't mind if they would fund exclusive game development like Sony does. As a consumer I don't really care about developer's publisher's cut.( why did I even start this project then? idk) □ I don't understand how did Epic release their platform in such state in late 2018.I like Valve hardware and probably would've already upgraded to Valve Index if it was sold here. I care about SteamInput and SteamVR because I have a Steam Controller and HTC Vive.(I've heard they may have implemented cloud saves for some games but I'm not sure) Their launcher doesn't have most features I care about in Steam.įor example (without a particular order): Linux support, community, achievements, controller support, VR, Workshop, cloud saves, etc.I don't like EGS and don't use it for multiple reasons: I am not like "Steam-only".Be up to explaining why they dislike Epic Sure you could see it as a bipolar tendecy here but the reason why I am accepting console exclusives is because they came out of a year long partnership without any other dependencies but Epic just buys games in order to ENFORCE their plattform instead of building any sort of an acceptable environment for users. I also have several console for their exclusive titles. I also have a GoG Account with only a hand full of games but still I am supporting CD Project especially with their market practices and of course their GoG Galaxy 2.0 Launcher. I have an account on Uplay and Origin both with well over 300 games. I am not that #SteamMasterRace type of person as you might think. Originally posted by Shane: if you hate that principle to any degree buying any game that released on a epic timed exclusive on steam makes you somewhat contridictive
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