When is 2 coming to steam

[Bog]

for real?

[MosGuy]

Since epic made v2 and it's exclusive, it won't be on steam. I'd suggest a forum search; it's been discussed ad nauseam

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Originally posted by Bog:

for real?

Never. It's never coming to Steam. The second game will only ever be on Epic Games and never anywhere else. This is not like some games that are only on Epic games for the first 12 months. In this case Epic Games now owns everything to do with the PC Building Simulator series and they own the second game completely so it will be on their platform only forever.

[johntruck12]

i do not know

[Buckshot]

Originally posted by 🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊:

Originally posted by Bog:

for real?

Never. It's never coming to Steam. The second game will only ever be on Epic Games and never anywhere else. This is not like some games that are only on Epic games for the first 12 months. In this case Epic Games now owns everything to do with the PC Building Simulator series and they own the second game completely so it will be on their platform only forever.

That is pretty sad, because Steam seems to be the biggest and most popular gaming platform out there.

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Originally posted by Buckshot:

That is pretty sad, because Steam seems to be the biggest and most popular gaming platform out there.

I agree with you that this is a sad outcome. Unfortunately it doesn't matter what we say about it in the steam forums either. Nothing we users can do will change. We will not be able to convince them to release it on Steam.

[Buckshot]

Originally posted by 🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊:

Originally posted by Buckshot:

That is pretty sad, because Steam seems to be the biggest and most popular gaming platform out there.

I agree with you that this is a sad outcome. Unfortunately it doesn't matter what we say about it in the steam forums either. Nothing we users can do will change. We will not be able to convince them to release it on Steam.

Yeah you are right. Oh well. It is their loss.

[ishootnoobs01]

idk I don't use epic and I wouldn't buy anything over there

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Originally posted by ishootnoobs01:

idk I don't use epic and I wouldn't buy anything over there

If we want to play the second game then unfortunately we have no choice but to buy it on Epic Games or just not play it.

[Buckshot]

Originally posted by 🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊:

Originally posted by ishootnoobs01:

idk I don't use epic and I wouldn't buy anything over there

If we want to play the second game then unfortunately we have no choice but to buy it on Epic Games or just not play it.

That is really too bad. IMO Steam is the biggest gaming platform around. I am pretty sure sales would be up a lot more than Epic Games must be doing now. There are many more players such as myself that strictly only use Steam.

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Originally posted by Buckshot:

That is really too bad. IMO Steam is the biggest gaming platform around. I am pretty sure sales would be up a lot more than Epic Games must be doing now. There are many more players such as myself that strictly only use Steam.

I agree with you. But now Epic Games owns the entire PCBS Franchise (both PCBS 1 & PCBS 2). It's their game and so they get to decide where it is sold and they decided it is only to be sold on Epic Games.

[cardzy]

Originally posted by JIVJ060488:

They put the noose around their necks, the good thing is that I can get it for free elsewhere as a way of protesting.

Shrug. It is what it is. There are other ways to buy games than Steam. Everyone's mad at Epic for being exclusive and having their own store. Are you mad at Microsoft for having Xbox exclusives? Are you mad at Nintendo? Sony for PlayStation exclusives?

It is just how business is done. Not saying you can't vote with your wallet, as you definitely should. But just being realistic here. Everyone faults Epic for having their own store that is crappier than Steam (agreed 100%) and doing exclusive deals to drive people to buy from them. Yeah, it sucks from a consumer perspective, but also from a consumer perspective we have been dealing with it on consoles for decades. It isn't like it is changing, so the whining about it just accomplishes nothing. And from a business perspective, you can't blame them for trying to drive business to themselves and trying to be their own thing. At least not any more than you can blame Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo for doing the same thing.

[Captain Boreale]

Unfortunately no. It will never be released on Steam. This is the result of Epic Games' greediness and their anti-customer exclusive policy. The Epic Games even accuse Steam of constituting a monopoly over the market, yet they are making the market far worse while taking terrible exclusive deals.

I'd also like to add that quote aswell, to show why Epic's exclusive policy isn't the same as Steam did,
"I hope some of you do realise that Valve doesn't isn't paying for these games to be exclusive in the same way that Epic is with their deals. In fact, Valve have encouraged publishers to publish on as many platforms as they can as that is what drives competition. These situations aren't comparable. Games that are only on steam are that way out of choice.
That's the big difference here. Valve isn't buying out games to "Compete" while Epic is throwing their money around, buying exclusivity deals.
Except valve literally doesn't have exclusivity deals. A game being exclusive by choice or being self published isn't an exclusivity deal. There's been no exchange between valve and another company to go "We'll pay you X amount if you only publish on our store" in the same way that Epic has with their exclusivity deals where they offer a flat sum up front and then their minimum guaranteed sales amount on top.
A game that goes on Steam is completely free to go on any other platform. There's no stipulations and judging by the behaviour of the other launchers I believe the same goes for them as well. Uplay exclusive titles are Ubi published (In fact I'm pretty sure Uplay is only Ubi titles. Origin exclusive titles are EA published while I believe Origin also serves non-ea titles that are available on other store as well as EA being open to publishing on steam again. I don't think GOG has any exclusive titles.
Exclusives have either been by choice or self-published titles because PC has historically been a very open platform. It's foolish to deliberately go for exclusivity deals because it goes against the nature of the platform.
Epic are behaving completely different."
We all also know that PCBS wasn't developed by Epic. The factual creators (Irregular Corporation) of this game purchased by Epic just before PCBS2 arrived. Afterwards, the game became exclusive to the Epic store.
As a seasoned PC player, I've always despised Epic and boycotted their games. Epic is just a simple shopping tool with a shallow interface, nothing more.

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I'm not a moderator.. just a random person. But personally I don't think any sort of "Steam vs Epic Games" discussion has any place at all in the forums for this game. It seems to be completely off topic from the point of this game's steam forums to me.

Also this thread is to do with PCBS 2. Which this isn't even the forums for PCBS 2 at all in the first place.

This is just a suggestion here but you might want to try moving this thread to reddit. There are a lot of comments about this exact topic for the second game in the reddit page. Here's a link to it: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcbuildingsimulator/

[Buckshot]

Originally posted by 🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊:

I'm not a moderator.. just a random person. But personally I don't think any sort of "Steam vs Epic Games" discussion has any place at all in the forums for this game. It seems to be completely off topic from the point of this game's steam forums to me.

Also this thread is to do with PCBS 2. Which this isn't even the forums for PCBS 2 at all in the first place.

This is just a suggestion here but you might want to try moving this thread to reddit. There are a lot of comments about this exact topic for the second game in the reddit page. Here's a link to it: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcbuildingsimulator/

Hiya random person,
Respectfully I disagree that there is no place for PCBS 2 on these forums. It is a sequel to PCBS 1 which (last time I checked) is available through Steam.

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Originally posted by Buckshot:

Hiya random person,
Respectfully I disagree that there is no place for PCBS 2 on these forums. It is a sequel to PCBS 1 which (last time I checked) is available through Steam.

You might want to read the top of this web page where you are replying to. This section of steam clearly says at the top that this is the forums for PC Building Simulator. This is NOT the forums for PC Building Simulator 2. It does NOT say "PC Building Simulator 2" at the top of the page.

That means that any discussion regarding anything to do with PCBS 2 is completely off topic for this game's forums.

I do understand that Epic Games does not have a forum for that game. It is unfortunate and sad. The only place we have to discuss PCBS 2 or the second game is reddit and the official discord.