Can't buy because they chose Epic Game Store exclusivity

[Nomnaut]

Sorry, I don't support exclusivity for game stores. Oh well.

To those with low IQ citing games I already own that have gone through this same EGS exclusivity period, I was gifted those games. If I’m asked before hand, I always tell them not to gift me games that have gone through EGS’ predatory exclusivity practice. Otherwise, I can’t turn down a gift already sent; that’s rude. Checkmate, my point still stands.

[Inherited]

bye felicia

[Asmosis]

Does that mean you're uninstalling Steam as well then? well bye bye i guess.

[🐾]

I am in a similar situation. I do not support epic exclusive games (games that do not launch on Steam at release). So I will not buy this game because of that.

[Vechernyaya]

Same here, but I already played it, it's just that the devs won't get any reward from me. I suppose Tim payed it for me.

[Rockhead Gaz]

Originally posted by Asmosis:

Does that mean you're uninstalling Steam as well then? well bye bye i guess.

I don't think Valve actually pay publishers or developers for exclusivity, it's just that a lot of games have been exclusive to Steam as there were few alternatives with the feature-set Steam offers until relatively recently. Someone who knows more about it than me might correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think hosting a title on Steam excludes it from being hosted elsewhere.

[Cenotaph]

Originally posted by Rockhead Gaz:

Originally posted by Asmosis:

Does that mean you're uninstalling Steam as well then? well bye bye i guess.

I don't think Valve actually pay publishers or developers for exclusivity, it's just that a lot of games have been exclusive to Steam as there were few alternatives with the feature-set Steam offers until relatively recently. Someone who knows more about it than me might correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think hosting a title on Steam excludes it from being hosted elsewhere.

Steam didnt have to compete with a marketplace owning 80+% of the market.

This is a convenient omission for all those against platform exclusives.

This is a business of getting market share in a platform business, it's a perfectly valid strategy

[Tazor]

Isn't Steam the guiltiest of all the PC stores in terms of exclusivity? Seriously, start counting the number of Steam exclusives and compare them to other stores. GOG, Epic, Microsoft, Uplay, Origin, Battle.net.

Steam has by far the highest number of exclusives. What you are actually saying is that you want every game available in a single store for convenience. I want that too. But it ain't happening. In a way multiple stores should be better by offering lower prices. But that doesn't seem the case. Steam sales haven't been as deep as they used to be for years. Yes, I checked the prices of many older titles during sales.

[doubleo_maestro]

Originally posted by Tazor:

Isn't Steam the guiltiest of all the PC stores in terms of exclusivity? Seriously, start counting the number of Steam exclusives and compare them to other stores. GOG, Epic, Microsoft, Uplay, Origin, Battle.net.

Steam doesn't pay for exclusives, it's just a platform and they accept everyone. If publishers/devs choose to only put it on one platform as they don't think it's worth the effort to put it up on others, that's their call. EGS by comparison actually gives financial incentives to come to them and go no where else.

[Pocketcat]

I hope you got the attention you wanted

[Rockhead Gaz]

Originally posted by Cenotaph:

Originally posted by Rockhead Gaz:

I don't think Valve actually pay publishers or developers for exclusivity, it's just that a lot of games have been exclusive to Steam as there were few alternatives with the feature-set Steam offers until relatively recently. Someone who knows more about it than me might correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think hosting a title on Steam excludes it from being hosted elsewhere.

Steam didnt have to compete with a marketplace owning 80+% of the market.

This is a convenient omission for all those against platform exclusives.

This is a business of getting market share in a platform business, it's a perfectly valid strategy

I never said Steam did have to compete with a marketplace in as strong a position as itself. Neither did I defend nor condemn practices such as paying publishers and developers for exclusivity deals. I read a post which implied that Valve engaged in those practices, thus singling Epic Games Store out for it should also mean treating Valve in the same regard - I simply stated that I didn't believe that to be the case.

For what it's worth, I use Epic, GoG Galaxy, Origin, Uplay and Steam. I made no deliberate omission of fact in order to support a viewpoint which I don't necessarily agree with in the first place.

[Cosmic Cat]

Originally posted by Cenotaph:

Originally posted by Rockhead Gaz:

I don't think Valve actually pay publishers or developers for exclusivity, it's just that a lot of games have been exclusive to Steam as there were few alternatives with the feature-set Steam offers until relatively recently. Someone who knows more about it than me might correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think hosting a title on Steam excludes it from being hosted elsewhere.

Steam didnt have to compete with a marketplace owning 80+% of the market.

This is a convenient omission for all those against platform exclusives.

This is a business of getting market share in a platform business, it's a perfectly valid strategy

Be that as it may, exclusivity is still awful for consumers. Steam is actually pretty nice to its customers, but normally I'd be against near-monopolies as well.

In Valve's case they're like a "benevolent" dictator in the market.

[Shadow]

Exclusivity doesn't really bother me in the moral sense (with a big exception being kickstarters that promise Steam release, then change their minds when Epic waves some cash at them).

Steam is the platform I use for pc games, so if it's not available here, I don't buy it until it is (and considering how buggy modern games tend to be, waiting a while is generally not a bad thing).
At least in a single player game like this, where my enjoyment of the game is not in any way affected by how many other people are playing at the same time.

[Skeith]

Well now is the time to make your voice heard. Everyone who complained about egs but buys it now has no business complaining about future egs exclusivity since they'll have shown such behaviour has no negative consequences.

[Shadow]

Originally posted by Skeith:

Well now is the time to make your voice heard. Everyone who complained about egs but buys it now has no business complaining about future egs exclusivity since they'll have shown such behaviour has no negative consequences.

You don't actually get to decide whether or not people have the right to complain about things they don't like.

[Niall]

Steam has so many exclusives because Steam was the only platform. Nothing else to say. Epic bribe to get their exclusives and cannot be compared to Valve. Remember Valve was putting their competitors games on Steam. I don't see anything of Valve on Origin, Uplay or Epic.