Re: I bet Remedy regrets that deal now...

On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 08:45:00 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 10/06/2024 23:38, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Same. Again, it doesn't help that Epic doesn't really do much to
broadcast its exclusives. And many people, they hear a game is on
Epic, they go, "Oh, well, I'll just wait until its on Steam", and then
forget the game exists until it arrives on Valve's platform.

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That's certainly my attitude, the days when I just had to have a game
are long gone. It's the same with all the freebies they give out.
There's some that I look at and wouldn't mind playing but as yet nothing
that I've thought I want that so much that I'll sign up with Epic.

I have an account with them and grab the games, but I don't actually
play any of them on Epic. I like to think that, somehow, I'm costing
Epic money by doing so. ;-)

Epic burned a lot of goodwill with gamers with how it handled the Epic
Game store and I don't think it ever will fully recover from that
blow. It was bad enough that it was seen as an unnecessary product
that existed only for Epic's benefit. And it didn't help that Epic had
made a number of anti-PC gaming decisions and statements in years
previous. Badmouthing Valve, who was -fairly or not- seen as the
darling of PC Gaming didn't help either. But then locking games behind
years-long exclusivity contracts (and not backing down when it was
clear how unpopular this move was) was the final straw.

AFAIK, the Epic Game Store remains an unprofitable money-sink. The
latest estimates I've seen say it isn't expected to start seeing
positive revenue until 2027 (about five years later than originally
anticipated). A lot of that pain could have been avoided had Epic not
gone into the market so bullishly, or had shown some more appreciation
for their consumers.