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[The Bloody-Nine]

Yes, i am sure you and your brethren like @Ovek and The Bloody-Nine are immensely getting off on this when most people are against it, enjoy your master Epic Games and Tencent.

I am fairly certain that I have been gaming on PC longer than you've been alive, judging by your maturity level and the quality of your posts. Keep it up, though. Everyone who doesn't agree with you wholeheartedly is either a troll, an idiot or a dipshit. Or heaven forbid, a console gamer.

 

[Solomeena]

I am fairly certain that I have been gaming on PC longer than you've been alive, judging by your maturity level and the quality of your posts. Keep it up, though. Everyone who doesn't agree with you wholeheartedly is either a troll, an idiot or a dipshit. Or heaven forbid, a console gamer.

How old are you? Judging by your replies i would guess no older than 22.

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

How old are you? Judging by your replies i would guess no older than 22.

I'm 40 and started gaming on a C64. If you are a day older than 15 I'll be astounded.

 

[Barakov]

PS4 it is, I guess.

 

[Keylime]

I'm going to excuse you both this once and ask that you take it to PMs if you don't want us to take any actions here.

As a general tip: when you speak definitively about opinions, you set yourself up to get into these kinds of fights. "THIS IS HOW IT IS" when dealing with subjective discussions doesn't make any sense to say or pretend is somehow gospel.

You both have opinions, you both disagree...and instead of being adults and debating it rationally you've turned it into this pointless public slugfest.

Please take this chance to stop, and take it to PMs if you can't help yourself any further.

No more after this post.

Solomeena & The Bloody-Nine

 

[Teslerum]

Its confirmed, steam has a release date of 2020 and Obsidian lost me as a customer.

Honestly, considering how I supported the company over the years I'm just depressed.

 

[Threeshotgamer]

Confirmed 1 year exclusive:

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

I'm going to excuse you both this once and ask that you take it to PMs if you don't want us to take any actions here.

As a general tip: when you speak definitively about opinions, you set yourself up to get into these kinds of fights. "THIS IS HOW IT IS" when dealing with subjective discussions doesn't make any sense to say or pretend is somehow gospel.

You both have opinions, you both disagree...and instead of being adults and debating it rationally you've turned it into this pointless public slugfest.

Please take this chance to stop, and take it to PMs if you can't help yourself any further.

No more after this post.

Solomeena & The Bloody-Nine

No worries.

 

[Cert.in.Death]

Unsold but interested in the game, not terribly concerned about which distributor they're partnering with.

 

[FearlessBelgian]

My wallet thanks you epic games.

 

[Solomeena]

PC gaming is the new console wars, great except that Gabe is just letting EPIC/China punch Valve into a meat pulp at this point and i have to question what the fuck Gabe is thinking right now by letting Epic ruin pc gaming. Fuck man, i hate this shit.

 

[TheUsual]

Bummer its happening again. Guess I'll have to wait until 2020. Hate seeing this stuff change after announcements.
If it was day 1 announced EGS exclusive for a year that would be a different story.

EGS hasn't hit my breaking point yet on a day one buy (god knows what they'll be).

 

[Threeshotgamer]

Guess not exclusive as it will be on windows store as well

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

This whole situation is a mess of misinformation.

I guess this is what happens when you partner w the Epic store

 

[Shin]

"Competition"

More like mass abandonment but not before that green exchanging hands.

 

[FearlessBelgian]

I hate epic, i hate epic, i hate epic...

But i save my money...

 

[Kadayi]

Ah well, I can wait a year.

 

[johntown]

While I don't like Epic one bit, I will say that I have a better time accepting this with plenty of advanced warning. I don't like it but it is just competition.

Like others on here I can wait a year. My backlog is so huge anyway it doesn't matter.

Plus, I am interested in Outer Worlds for sure but not enough to buy it day one at a store a despise.

If Elder Scrolls VI said it was exclusive to Epic for a year I might cave......hard to say if I could wait a year for that.

 

[Arachnid]

First Metro, then Phoenix Point, now this?

:/

 

[Dragon Lord]

Why won't this stop? *facepalm*

 

[kraspkibble]

Oh what a shame. I was looking forward to The Outer Worlds

Fuck you obsidian.

 

[Dunki]

YEah FUCK OBSIDIAN. WILL NOT BUY IT ANYMORE.

I am really upset about this.

 

[Screamer-RSA]

Ffs, oh well guess I'll get it a year later then.

Not even a fucking release date yet but they already telling us we can't have it.

 

[ALIEN-gunner]

As a console only gamer I'd like to welcome you all to the party boys and girls!

 

[hariseldon]

Confirmed 1 year exclusive:

That tweet seems to have disappeared.

 

[Threeshotgamer]

That tweet seems to have disappeared.

Looks like they deleted it to post a new one stating Windows store as well as Epic. I already shared the updated one on post #113 but didn't realize they deleted the older one.

 

[hariseldon]

Guess not exclusive as it will be on windows store as well

So one that's run by cunts and another that is simply unusable. I'll wait for Steam/gog.

 

[hariseldon]

Looks like they deleted it to post a new one stating Windows store as well as Epic. I already shared the updated one on post #113 but didn't realize they deleted the older one.

A cynic might suggest they deleted the old tweet to hide the bodies...

 

[eot]

So it comes to Steam just in time for the discounts to start hitting? Perfect

 

[Threeshotgamer]

A cynic might suggest they deleted the old tweet to hide the bodies...

If you use Twitter or Reddit as a gauge to public reaction this one may actually have started to go worse than the Metro one before the updated tweet. Not that it seems to be going any better even with the correction.

 

[Sub_Level]

The Steam community boards are amazing right now.

 

[zcaa0g]

Epic is really going to help me out on my game backlog by not buying some of these games until a year later.

 

[Vitacat]

Screw Epic store, and even though I'm very interested in this game, I won't support this.

 

[Teslerum]

So one that's run by cunts and another that is simply unusable. I'll wait for Steam/gog.

I assume the only reason its on the microsoft store as well is because Microsoft demanded its sale on the store.

Screw you private division.

 

[Hari Seldon]

I’ll wait for it to come to steam, which probably means I’ll forget about it after the initial marketing which means I’ll likely never buy it. Lots of other games to play.

 

[120v]

i'll probably buy it on Epic, whatever. just the way the winds are blowing

i'd like it to be like circa 2012 in PC gaming/storefronts forever but it's just not the reality

 

[JimmyJones]

No steam, no buy. I was already considering skipping this when I saw the picture of the dev team, but now I am definitely skipping it.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

Fine, I'll wait a year. I'm not going to give spyware tencent any money.

 

[TheSadRanger]

I'm gonna break down and go ahead and get the EGS, there's a lot of games I want to play on it and over $7 trillion of U.S debt is owed to China anyways. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

I can't even begin to understand why they would do this with a game that seems tailor made for a certain type of gamer, the type of gamer who is pissed off by a move like this and for a new untested franchise to boot, madness.

As for me personally I don't like it but I don't want to wait an extra year, so I guess I don't have a choice but to cave in and use the Epic store, oh well.

 

[Manus]

Fine I can totally wait a year. No way I'm putting Epic's launcher on my PC.

 

[scanferr]

Epic must be paying a hell of a lot of money to pull these deals. It's true that Valve's 30% cut is a joke but this is unreal.

 

[hariseldon]

Re the 30% cut - it's a lot, although we know retail took a bigger cut, but let's consider what you get for your money. First up, you get some pretty expensive infrastructure to deliver the files to the user. That shit costs money. Lots of it. Second, you get all that community stuff - chat, matchmaking, workshop for handling mods, etc. Third, you can sell your keys anywhere and Steam takes a 0% cut - they basically provide infrastructure for you to then cut them out of the loop. Fourth, they have a HUGE number of customers viewing their store. Getting on there isn't quite the money-printer it was back in the day for smaller games, but for most games it's the place to be.

70% of the money from a huge audience is always going to be better than 90% or whatever it is from a small audience, and I'd be very surprised if the Epic audience wasn't very very small at this point.

 

[Ichabod]

 

[tomiguelk]

Well I won't install epic store, so I guess for the next few months I'll have to rely on my backlog of PC and PS4 games. Not that I'm too woried about it. Someone should make a thread where people could put at least the games on their backlog that they are more interested in playing while waiting for the one year epic exclusivity to end.

 

[Simply_Bry]

Can someone please explain why this is such a big deal? I don't game on PC, but to me it sounds like everybody is too lazy to spend 5 minutes downloading the Epic Store. It's not like you have to buy a new $400 console to play an exclusive.

 

[hariseldon]

Can someone please explain why this is such a big deal? I don't game on PC, but to me it sounds like everybody is too lazy to spend 5 minutes downloading the Epic Store. It's not like you have to buy a new $400 console to play an exclusive.

It's about how it reduces competition. A game that is exclusive to a single store offers less choice to the consumer than a game which may be purchased via a variety of stores. The fact that the decision is being driven by money-hatting makes it particularly unpleasant. It's an anti-competitive act. Buying games on EGS will encourage this behaviour, and may prompt other stores to do the same if it's seen to work.

 

[SweetShark]

Quick question cause is striked me:
Can Steam just pay Devs to have exclusive titles as well?
I mean, it make sense if Steam want to protect future games coming to it.

 

[kraspkibble]

Can someone please explain why this is such a big deal? I don't game on PC, but to me it sounds like everybody is too lazy to spend 5 minutes downloading the Epic Store. It's not like you have to buy a new $400 console to play an exclusive.

well it was advertised as releasing on steam but now if you want to play it there you need to wait a year.

talking of advertised....a lot of studios are listing their games on steam and with the amount of users there it's kind of like free advertising. "hey guys look our new game on steam!" "awesome, i'll add it to my wishlist!" "guess what!? we're not actually releasing it on steam at launch any more. go buy it on the Epic store or wait a year. fuck you and your cat, love Obsidian."

sure it's easy to just go install epic launcher and download it but that's not the point. it's the principal. you're being told where you need to buy it from. having it on steam + epic to give players choice would be better. i'll just be buying it on MS Store. Get it up ye Epic.

 

[hariseldon]

Quick question cause is striked me:
Can Steam just pay Devs to have exclusive titles as well?
I mean, it make sense if Steam want to protect future games coming to it.

Nothing to stop them doing it, I would however be as unhappy with this as I am with Epic's behaviour.