The Epic First Run programme allows developers of any size to claim 100% of revenue if they agree to make their game exclusive on the Epic Games Store for six months.
After the six months are up, the game will revert to the standard Epic Games Store revenue split of 88% for the developer and 12% for Epic Games.
Ouf, crazy how many people are actually pushing for valve to have a complete monopoly. Ya it’s a good product but so was chrome. Diversity is important for consumers.
Funny how most of us are also just fine with GoG, green man gaming, humble bundle, and the like. Just because a lot of people don’t like one particular store front and practices doesn’t mean we’re cheering on monopolization.
Just because the competition fucking sucks ass doesn’t mean the best one has a monopoly. 🤦♂️ There is still competition… It’s just weak as shit.
Maybe if the competition stepped up and offered similar services and functions, they wouldn’t need to pull bullshit like Epic is with exclusivity deals, and actually take some market share.
GOG Galaxy is a decent one. It actually offers a lot of what makes Steam so strong. It’s still not as good, but they also deal with a certain niche area of gaming, making even their store more relevant than EGS, Origin, etc.
GOG is wonderful! You don’t even need to use a launcher if you don’t want to, DRM free is my jam.
That said, I wish they would improve their launcher, especially when it comes to updating games: I shouldn’t need hundreds of gigs of free space to patch a big game.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_Epic_Games_Store
Pretty much all their free games are on the list.
You don’t need the launcher to play them?
There is also a lot of games on steam that you can launch without steam. It seems developers have finaly realized there is nonpoint fighting piracy for their drm to be broken in a day or two.
Glad to hear it, DRM sucks.
If an actual competitor arises sure, but why support scummy anti-consumer practices?
Fair point, I guess I was ready to disregard it because of the money going to devs and epic already taking less of a cut then valve. Exclusives do suck.
Valve do take a larger cut, but that money is going into some incredible services both for consumers and developers with Steamworks. Much larger audience too, which makes up for the larger cut anyway.
Epic just want a slice of the revenue while putting in minimal effort, so they just buy exclusives and free game promos, so as far as I am concerned they can fuck off.
“Monopoly”, and yet when a game is on Steam I can buy it wherever I want. What stores can I buy Epic exclusives exactly?
They have key resellers now, but hey, you guys don’t care if they improve their shit, your opinion was made even before they released
Do you work for Epic or something? I’ve never seen someone defending such a shoddy and unneeded product so vehemently.
You guys work for valve of something? I point out falsehood and hypocrisy, you guys attack a product based on bullshit, who’s more likely to work for one of the two exactly?
But I remember you guys…
Back in 2003 you guys were pissed at Valve for releasing Steam and you said it would kill PC gaming. I was there to see people you doing exactly that. Valve made Steam necessary to play Half-Life 2, remember that? Oh man you guys were mad…
But now? Steam is the best thing ever! Can’t have enough can you? If they had a monopoly that would be even better! Heck, they had one for years and you didn’t mind the fact that games were de facto exclusives for a long ass time! Valve just didn’t have to sign a contract to confirm it!
I was actually on board with Steam since the inception. I grew up in the sticks; being able to buy my games online and download them super easily was fucking dope since I could not easily find many in stores.
It’s not so dope now. If that’s the only thing you have to offer: Why the fuck would I use it? Because you gnab shit and hold it hostage specifically so I will use you inferior platform?
Doesn’t matter if they have key resellers now, they were bitching and complaining about the Steam monopoly before they did so that image will hold true for all of time, forever. And I’m going to hate that stupid company for any reason I want, if that makes you mad then that’s a you problem for being a free bootlicker to a faceless multibillion dollar corpo who doesn’t give a fuck who you are.
I mean… You’re accusing me of being something you also are for another company, can’t believe you don’t realize that…
Are you not reading your own comments? They all boil down to “WHY DON’T YOU GUYS LIKE EPIC?? PLEASE LIKE EPIC, PLEASE!”. You come off as a serious fanboy that gets high off Tim Sweeney’s farts, it’s embarrassing. Even if Epic was paying you this isn’t the kind of PR they’d appreciate my dude.
There is a lot more history to Epic than just a monopoly; that company and ceo dug their grave and they can sit in it.
Reading the posts… everyone seems pretty cool with GoG… Value and GoG sitting in a tree, not being assholes yippeeee
I don’t mind competition but I hate superfluous launchers that launch when you launch a game from another launcher.
I’d love to see competing game stores that were all genuinely good, but let’s be honest: Most of them are mediocre-to-shit.
They need to make a better product to compete. I’m not rooting for valve but epic can eat a bag of dicks too.
Not disagreeing with you, but I’m not responsible for Epic being successful. Steam has always been my only place for games, and a few months ago I even deleted my Epic account with a few free games (CIV 6, GTA V) and purchased them on Steam summer sale.
I can’t be arsed to make new accounts, set up friends, payments, install a bunch of shit again and again for any storefront that pops up. Steam is reliable, has good sales, and hasn’t pissed its users off to make them leave.
I’m not even sure luring devs with 6 months of exclusivity is a bad thing for steam users. Games come out in such bad states nowadays that probably sticking with steam and getting a functional game later is better than being a beta tester on Epic.
Valve has won me over with Steam Deck too. It’s more stream lined to install a game and get going on Linux compared to the setup for other launchers. Maybe other competitors should pay attention to Linux more. If they are supposedly for open platforms then why not actually invest in making the experience better on Linux as opposed to being so stubborn in only supporting the windows ecosystem. You’d think Epic would jump on it with how they’ve constantly complained about Apple’s ecosystem and Android even though that at least allows side loading.
Epic complain because it doesnt benefit them. If they were the one with a large ecosystem, you bet it would be closed down as much as possible. Fuck Epic games, shitty company.
That’s like Walmart showing up to a town that didn’t have any and claiming it’s diversity because it isn’t Costco. Options are good, but there needs to actually be a better reason for customers to use it than just use it even though it sucks for the sake of competition. Especially if this competitor is taking the approach of buying out the competition to remove availability, which doesn’t give the impression they are a company with goals of being benevolent should they get bigger.
Epic have more than enough fortnite money to make a launcher that’s not shit