Humble Bundle Partners With Epic Games

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Agreed.

I actually had posted this in the thread before you posted but I decided to remove it. I had stuff like that previously on the thread but it was coming across as an advertisement.

Damn it, I was looking forward to The Sinking City, but it is only a 1 year deal so I'm okay with it. Afterparty also sounds like a timed thing but their post is vague at best. :/

That was really, really obvious when their twitter account starts insulting the PC gamers over the Metro Exodus incident.

"Isn't that a MicroSoft title?"
reads actual article
"Epic AND MicroSoft store"

Bit misleading to call it exclusive then, no?

Welp... this was the one I am hoping the most won't be an exclusive. Ah well. A year after then.

They need to do something. If they can prove that a dev made a pre-release deal with valve just to get publicity hen the dev had no plans to release on valve, then they have what I would consider to be an excellent case.

Who needs to actually improve the service when you can just bribe everybody?

C O M P E T I T I O N

Epic has so much bullshit .
collected data without permission (Steam data) While saying first we wont add those features not even in the future
Acc &Bill data got leaked through specific Urls to the Account case. so can pretty easy hack accounts with cookies .
Epic did kill UT4/Paragon and throws every game away after it dont sell
Epic game store downloads automatically fortnite ...
Support is slow did take around 6months to answer about a problem for their own sake +100 other reasons
I wouldnt buy any game there ,i still hope gog will rise .

You know Epic said they don't really want to do sales, IIRR they even used good old EA's "it cheapens the product".
Not really surprising, 12% from $10 is $1.2, not enough to even cover a cheeseburger :)

I love how games are going to epic .... steam have been negligent for far too long.

This isn't a negligence issue. Don't be naive here.

Epic's bribing for publishers. That's all this is. Literal corporate bribing. They pay them a sum and guarantee sales (which will be compensated for from Epic's pocket should they not reach those sales on their own) and in return Epic gets exclusivity over the game for a year. That's all this is.

Though, maybe you are correct and it actually turns out that Obsidian's the dumbest developer to exist in the 21st century. You might be right. They might truly be taking away the majority of their income for shits and giggles. I'm joking here, by the way. There's no chance that they're idiots. They're smart. This is a business move on both ends. One that's extremely underhanded and anti-competitive, but still a deliberate business move.

Outer Worlds is definitely a great scoop for Epic. Though it's also obvious that Microsoft has their mitts in Obsidian's business now, since this reeks of Microsoft. This isn't a move that Obsidian would pull and it shows. This will hurt Obsidian's integrity and reputation and this is actually starting to look like Pandemic all over again. So yeah, a solid scoop, but it's at the expense of their integrity, trust, favorability and long-term profits.

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I'm not sure about that...

It's been a thing for months now and there hasn't been any competition because this doesn't create competition in any way.

Epic could've been competitive for customers, but they chose not to be. Sweeney even sneered at customers, saying that the winner of all of this will be the publishers. The same Tim Sweeney that pussied out of the PC market due to piracy and then slithered back in when Valve had fixed the issue for the most part. Look at almost anything the man says and you'll see that this has never been and will never be a competition for customers.
Prices won't change on what is essentially a glorified second webpage for the same exact store.

I agree, how Valve could allow "FateOfOne Favourite Game" on Steam? :)

Jokes aside, I think I only partially agree - in the end it is better for consumers to decide what they want to play instead of Little Timmy who "knows better".

I wonder if devs who were criticizing few years ago that "Valve didn't put our game on Steam" or "CDP didn't put our game on GOG" will now criticize Epic for doing same thing.

+1 steam is sewage look at my game collection 70% junk.

And who is to decide which games are crap and which aren't?

Hey, you are playing Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms. I think that game is trash (I don't, but maybe other people do)

Says Tim Sweeney. The dude's a damn snake in the gaming industry. He blows smoke up everyone's ass, is an arrogant bastard, doesn't actually have the chops to make a change on the market and instead leeches off of other people's successes.

Epic's already a kettle that calls the pot black. Their entire storefront is a canvas that's barely filled with anything. A door without a handle and only a single working hinge. Axiom Verge (if that's the correct game) literally was on their storefront still with Steam DRM on it. They have less than 100 games and yet this shit still happens. They're down to talk shit on Steam, but they also are comfortable enough with stealing information from Steam and then backtracking with their tail between their legs once they're caught.
Sure, they might accept only good games, but it's ironic since now they've shifted the crap-taking to the games that have to lower their standards for stores because EGS is a heap of dung.

Steam's not perfect here. Not at all. But unless you've (Not you specifically. I mean the reader.) watched too much Jim Sterling and took everything he said without any grain of salt, then you'll see that Steam's been pretty alright overall. Emphasis on the "alright". They're not perfect and they have a hell of a lot to improve. But so does everyone and everything. The fact here is that Epic doesn't even hold a candle to even the basic feature standards that Steam has.

You won't get both DRM keys. Look how hostile Epic already is with their business practices. Do you really think they're willing to share the profit and especially share it with their sworn enemy?

Humble Epic Games Store Bundle featuring all your wishlisted games, but for Epic store instead of Steam :P

Well according to this forum Humble has been destroying themselves with bad bundles since acquired by IGN. I'm sure this forum can cope with Epic keys since they don't care about Humble.

obsidian had always problem with $, since this game is published not by MIcrosoft, its was expectable.

This is a guiding hand of Fergus, who always loved big moneys, but couldn't get to them

Outer World is published by TakeTwo Indie-Publishing Division.

What makes it funny is their CEO said like month or two ago "exclusivity is bad", I wonder if anyone doing any interview with him will start it with "how often you're going to lie in this interview"...

That's would be great for all, wait oh sh...
You're writing this not from your epic crap launcher's account?!

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That's common sense, not greediness

Why would anyone pay a game that doesn't sell to have the exclusivity...

But then we already got Uplay/Blizzard keys so it is most likely we'd be getting Epic game ones too. It is just unavoidable unfortunately.

Free games are good. And Epic is offering great games even though I already have them on Steam

It's not about steam or Uplay or epic or whatever.

I play games I don't play clients.

Also I am happy steam resolved your problems, but sadly it did nothing to me, I just got useless reply from a bot. A friend of mine got hacked, the hackers got him a vac ban and steam did nothing to fix that, so... No one is perfect