Why isn't Elden Ring on the Epic Game store?

[SaltyWeasel]

Beside the fact I really dislike Epic and there store I am quite surprised that Elden Ring is not on there storefront.
Not as an exclusive deal but just in general, what was the reason behind this decision does anyone know?

[tai lopez]

because bamco is in steam

[Non-Euclidean Cheese]

seems like... they are not epic enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uW47jWLMiY

[Ponyeater]

The Epic store may be epic, but From Soft is legendary.

[DEMANATI]

because fromsoft know's that epic is wack

[Foxtratocaster]

Their storytelling is the same as their publishing methods: obscure

Nobody knows and never will

[CompactCassette]

does it really matter?

[MrSoul]

Nothing ‘deserves’ to be on the epic garbage store

That’s a sinful wicked place

[SaltyWeasel]

Originally posted by CompactCassette:

does it really matter?

No it doesn't but I am just curious.
When you sell your game on multiple storefronts it makes more money.
So did Steam pay for exclusivity or does Bandai hate Epic game store?

[Morton Koopa Jr.]

Originally posted by Foxtratocaster:

Their storytelling is the same as their publishing methods: obscure

Nobody knows and never will

[gobydon]

Epic refused to sell the game without an exclusive deal.

[Cactuar]

Because Epic blows chunks, they are trying so hard to be relevant and bribing customers with freebies and developers with bags of cash it's beyong pathetic.

They should just have stuck with making game engines, something they do really well.

[MrSoul]

https://www.destructoid.com/bandai-namco-isnt-interested-in-epic-games-store-exclusivity/

Have they released anything on that store? If not think safe assume worried losing sales by burning existing steam consumer base

[GroovyHobo]

Originally posted by Sisko:

Nothing ‘deserves’ to be on the epic garbage store

That’s a sinful wicked place

Regular Sodom and Gomorrah over there.

[Kawalorn]

Because their 10$ "discount on anything" coupon cause people to see the game as devalued, and some publishers really want to avoid that, even if the discount doesn't affect them.

That's the best reason I can thing of that isn't "Epic sucks ass".

[MrSoul]

Originally posted by csand:

Originally posted by DEMANATI:

because fromsoft know's that epic is wack

If only. They use Epic's janky ass EAC and apparently Epic's servers.

No idea why they wouldn't use Valve servers and VAC

Super weird part to me is they used to, but guess the exploit business made them all paranoid and if check article they are impressed by Fortnite success so maybe thought was just:
“hey if it works for that big game, must be the best software on the market” as they nodded in agreement in their stuffy boardroom with zero perspective towards reality of EAC as an actual piece of software