AC Valhalla no steam. how do you guys feel?

[CatMilk]

i guess i'll be skipping this one.....

[Flip_Light]

Shepard původně napsal:

sam_akba původně napsal:

Anyone who has had an experience with streaming services knows the plight of exclusives and should use it as a lesson not to want them in PC gaming.

It absolutely boggles me when some, although a minority, are supporting Epic's use of exclusives to gain market share. The sheep who read "competition is better for the consumer" without looking at its context.

Maybe have a look at this article. The reason Epic Games are doing exclusives are to promote a fair profit distribution to developers. As we've seen with Metro Exodus, a very desired triple A title game, they were so against Steam's 30/70 profit share that they went exclusive weeks before release (which did have its consequences, but they would've known a lot of the risks before they made that decision).

Epic Games said that exclusives weren't to last, its intention is to make it aware to Steam that the split is unfair. And bare in mind, it's the game developers that make the final decision, and it must be quite a message if they've chosen to steer away from Steam.

https://www.cbr.com/assassins-creed-valhalla-not-on-steam/

You really think that a company like epic will get rid of one of it's ONLY "competitive"(toxicly so) edges if steam did a better split? If you really believe anything they say you're either ignorant or stupid.

What about when devs want to put games on BOTH launchers and just get denied despite it being more healthy competition wise? Do you know WHY this happens? Because epic has NO OTHER COMPETITIVE EDGE due to their launcher being so garbage.

90% of the time it's not even the devs choices - it's the publishers. You know, the people who already make a ♥♥♥♥ ton of money. Not the devs.

[Jondalar]

buttcheese34 původně napsal:

im getting it on Uplay when it's on sale. That's where all my AC games are anyways and it looks like you can already preorder it on Uplay. You need Uplay to play the steam versions of Ubisoft games anyways so that's why i simply just get all my ubisoft games directly from their store.

I won't tire of repeating this to anyone who says the same thing ... I don't care if the Uplay app opens directly after launching the game from Steam. You wait a few seconds, the game starts and you're done, you don't have to do anything else, there is nothing strange and it is not annoying. You can say that you prefer to buy the games directly on Uplay, it is your decision and it is respectable, the rest does not make sense.

[sam_akba]

Shepard původně napsal:

The reason Epic Games are doing exclusives are to promote a fair profit distribution to developers.

Do you really believe Epic's excuses? Let me tell you something, if Epic ever become successful in promoting their launcher one day, the first thing that will go is their free games, the next thing that will go is the 88/12 split. I can already see them coming up with an article like this:

Epic Games původně napsal:

5 years ago when we started Epic Games Store, the PC gaming industry was different. The business model gave unfair advantages to the store fronts which took a huge chunk of the publishers' money. Thanks to your support, we helped change that model.
However, the industry has changed drastically over these past years and the ecosystem of gaming has gone through major advancements. We have also added <insert features here>, all of which cost Epic Games a fair share of money. We don't think the current business model is fair to our storefront anymore. Therefore we are switching to a 70/30 business model. Epic Games will continue to support developers all over the world. Thanks for your understanding.

Shepard původně napsal:

As we've seen with Metro Exodus, a very desired triple A title game, they were so against Steam's 30/70 profit share that they went exclusive weeks before release (which did have its consequences, but they would've known a lot of the risks before they made that decision).

The same publisher that got a huge chunk of money from Epic were so against Steam's 70/30 share that only a year later released their game on Steam? Makes sense...

[SleepyDroid]

I probably get it on uplay but not sure yet.

[Grizz]

wtf u mean its not coming to steam

[LordCarmesim]

jorgemuve původně napsal:

Soldner42 původně napsal:

just like Battlefield.
But this doesnt change the fact that for one, EA is publishing Games again on Steam.
And for two, people are kinda retarded that they pay every year again 60$ and more to get just little updates made to the Teams actual Players.
I still dont know why People buy these Games every year when nothing dramatic changed or happend at all.. jesus.. im still Playing Football Manager from 1999 and NHL from 2004, and its still the same as today, just with worse Graphics... oh my Gosh... how awful.

Electronics Arts has announced that it will publish Battlefield, FIFA, Sims4 ... in mid-2020 on Steam.

In mid 2020 FIFA 20 will be dead. FIFA 21 will be comming... Pointless.

[sam_akba]

DSD27 původně napsal:

jorgemuve původně napsal:

Electronics Arts has announced that it will publish Battlefield, FIFA, Sims4 ... in mid-2020 on Steam.

In mid 2020 FIFA 20 will be dead. FIFA 21 will be comming... Pointless.

FIFA 21 will be coming to Steam.

[LordCarmesim]

sam_akba původně napsal:

DSD27 původně napsal:

In mid 2020 FIFA 20 will be dead. FIFA 21 will be comming... Pointless.

FIFA 21 will be coming to Steam.

Yeah... In middle 2021

[Soldner42]

DSD27 původně napsal:

sam_akba původně napsal:

FIFA 21 will be coming to Steam.

Yeah... In middle 2021

Lol, so they just load off their Junk onto Steam? Nice.

[Perplex]

DSD27 původně napsal:

sam_akba původně napsal:

FIFA 21 will be coming to Steam.

Yeah... In middle 2021

Does it really matter? All FIFA games are the exact same anyway. The only thing changing is the names of the players in the team.

[Ỽ Ỿ ي Ƀ ξ ۳ ե]

Some people might like those games, so why not.

[Blowfeld]

I dont care if I launch Uplay via Uplay, Steam or EGS, as I will most likely have switched to gog 2.0 completely by then

[Soldner42]

Sir Blowfeld původně napsal:

I dont care if I launch Uplay via Uplay, Steam or EGS, as I will most likely have switched to gog 2.0 completely by then

thought so as well, but so far. GoG Galaxy is.. eh.. just buggy and offers no official Support for the biggest player, such as Steam.. which is a shame so far. I hope Valve and CDPR work more together and Steam will be Officially Supported by GoG Galaxy.

[Charged Dreamer]

Soldner42 původně napsal:

Sir Blowfeld původně napsal:

I dont care if I launch Uplay via Uplay, Steam or EGS, as I will most likely have switched to gog 2.0 completely by then

thought so as well, but so far. GoG Galaxy is.. eh.. just buggy and offers no official Support for the biggest player, such as Steam.. which is a shame so far. I hope Valve and CDPR work more together and Steam will be Officially Supported by GoG Galaxy.

They're still in closed beta right now, the first thing they gotta do is make sure every existing feature work the way it was intended at the moment. They could always add full integration for other Steam features such as viewing friends profiles and chat etc. As far as I know CDP is doing this to increase their goodwill and not making money by selling third party ads. The only way they can add more and more features to gog galaxy if they have some sort of mutual agreement with other companies such as Valve, Epic Games, EA, Ubisoft, Activision and so on....

Due to privacy and security concerns I feel the hardest part would be an addition of cross-platform chat. I doubt we'll ever get a feature where GOG Galaxy user could directly chat with Playstation/Xbox/Switch gamers user without them having gog galaxy 2.0 installed on a computer. Most console only players aren't likely to install GOG Galaxy 2.0 anyways.

[Soldner42]

Charged Dreamer původně napsal:

Soldner42 původně napsal:

thought so as well, but so far. GoG Galaxy is.. eh.. just buggy and offers no official Support for the biggest player, such as Steam.. which is a shame so far. I hope Valve and CDPR work more together and Steam will be Officially Supported by GoG Galaxy.

They're still in closed beta right now, the first thing they gotta do is make sure every existing feature work the way it was intended at the moment. They could always add full integration for other Steam features such as viewing friends profiles and chat etc. As far as I know CDP is doing this to increase their goodwill and not making money by selling third party ads. The only way they can add more and more features to gog galaxy if they have some sort of mutual agreement with other companies such as Valve, Epic Games, EA, Ubisoft, Activision and so on....

Due to privacy and security concerns I feel the hardest part would be an addition of cross-platform chat. I doubt we'll ever get a feature where GOG Galaxy user could directly chat with Playstation/Xbox/Switch gamers user without them having gog galaxy 2.0 installed on a computer. Most console only players aren't likely to install GOG Galaxy 2.0 anyways.

Right.
But i dont get the Part with the Console Gamers. Does CDPR plan to release GoG Galaxy also on Consoles? That would be unexpected for me. Otherwise.. if your playing only on Console, you dont need GoG Galaxy if its just on PC.