19.99 is a fair price

[Clint NoNerdyW✪✪D]

The game has been out over a year on console so it's an old game and it's just going to be a straight port over from console to PC. We also had to wait over a year to get the game on PC which is "not great" and they also want to us to install some 3rd party nonsense to play the game online? For these reasons I couldn't pay more than 19.99 and i think the rumoured price of 40+ is way too much, and you should too.

[potato]

Originally posted by Raga:

Epic Launcher has reported over 75 million active users lol your metaphorical comparison is pathetic.

those are all fortnite kids

[Mike]

Originally posted by Raga:

Originally posted by Clint NoNerdyW✪✪D:

Everyone plays on steam, that's like saying an indie film released in one cinema in the world, the film was out but nobody saw it or knew it was out. That's the same as it never releasing, so the game wasn't on PC.

Epic Launcher has reported over 75 million active users lol your metaphorical comparison is pathetic.

You seem to forget that epic is required for fortnite, you know the biggest BR in the world...
Played by millions of 12 year olds.
If you actually took all the users that purely use it as a store front like steam your numbers would be dramatically lower.

[potato]

Originally posted by Calastair:

If you actually took all the users that purely use it as a store front like steam your numbers would be dramatically lower.

yea, during the apple vs epic court case epic declared the average amount a user spends on the epic store is 4 bucks

[Mike]

Originally posted by potato:

Originally posted by Calastair:

If you actually took all the users that purely use it as a store front like steam your numbers would be dramatically lower.

yea, during the apple vs epic court case epic declared the average amount a user spends on the epic store is 4 bucks

100%, I know several people that have epic accounts purely just to log in once a month to get the free game they give out, they literally never play them or use epic for anything but they still count towards the total log ins per month as well and im sure there is millions of people doing the same.

[ᚺᛉᚹᛊᚱᛒᚱᛊᚤᚢ]

Originally posted by potato:

Originally posted by Raga:

Epic Launcher has reported over 75 million active users lol your metaphorical comparison is pathetic.

those are all fortnite kids

Hit the nail on its head, literally Epic the trashbag platform's just for FORKNITE

[Tikigod]

Originally posted by potato:

Originally posted by Calastair:

If you actually took all the users that purely use it as a store front like steam your numbers would be dramatically lower.

yea, during the apple vs epic court case epic declared the average amount a user spends on the epic store is 4 bucks

Yeah, a few years back during the various lawsuits when figures had to be disclosed and made public it was found that the EGS actually loses EPIC quite a lot of money every year in amount of money they pump into paying developer/publishers to sign-up to "No-Steam release allowed" agreements and also operate "Guaranteed sale payments" where no matter how many or how few sales a game gets on EGS, Epic will pay the developer/publisher a lump sum amount of cash when the game releases as if the game sold xxxx number of copies, as a incentive to get companies to agree to not releasing their games on Steam for a year or more.

The whole premise isn't for the storefront to actually generate a lot of revenue for Epic, but rather just to make sure that games aren't being sold on one particular competing store (Steam) and draw users onto EGS to be able to generate inflated numbers to make it look like the store is doing well and has a lot of activity, in hopes that by starving major releases off Steam, one day it will translate into people adopting EGS as their go to store.

After years of Epic acting on the plan, I'd say it's been a overall failure and didn't really work the way Epic had hoped. But given the sheer amount of excess revenue they're having pumped into the company from a handful of sources like Fortnite and now slowly the Rocket League IP, Epic can afford to operate a store that costs the company a net loss of over a $1,000,000 a year in publisher exclusivity bribes on the principle of "Well we're sticking to to Valve anyway" and not really feel it.

Just the kind of company Epic is under Tim Sweeney's oversight.

They will gladly operate a store that generates a net loss of over $1.5+ million a year, in order to restrict access of titles from one particular competitor. And can afford to do so due to the billions of dollar revenue a year the company sees injected from Fortnite alone.

[SmokeyDaBear]

Probably $60 but with mods might be worth a try.

[Chillin]

Originally posted by Calastair:

Originally posted by Bing_Chilling:

it's pointless to try and tell these people..There stuck in there own delusions of conspiracy theory BS from redit users. lol

You are literally raging on a steam thread about how steam is bad and epic is good.
Like literally raging over several days which means you constantly come back to this thread looking to argue.

You are delusional, seek help

lmfao ok snowflake

[Chillin]

Originally posted by SHREDDER:

Originally posted by Bing_Chilling:

you know you can currently preorder the gold edition on Cdkeys for less then £26. and if your a new customer i think you get 10% off any game. so you pay even less...or you can wait for the steam offical price and probably pay alot more.

τhe gold edition is the whole game? the base game with all dlc? if it is 26 for preoprder then on steam it will be 30?

yep the gold edition is everything. it's under £26 on cdkeys for preorder.. i highly doubt it will be £30 for the gold edition on steam though. the base game will probably be £30. gold prob anything from 50 to 60

[Mr.Hemiroids]

Originally posted by El Scootero:

What's so special about Steam in order to wait a whole year to play it here ?When i'm interested in playing a game, i'll buy it no matter what provider can offer me that thing. I don't understand you, guys. Did Steam pay money to you to wait a full year ?

It's Not About Steam. It's about the fact that Epic is trying to turn PC into console with exclusivity. I could care less about steam I would play on Uplay EA play you think of it I'll play there. Steam is not exclusive I can purchase games on Green Man Gaming g2a etc etc..

[LoboFH]

Originally posted by El Scootero:

What's so special about Steam in order to wait a whole year to play it here ?When i'm interested in playing a game, i'll buy it no matter what provider can offer me that thing. I don't understand you, guys. Did Steam pay money to you to wait a full year ?

What's so special about Steam?, let me see:

- A store with all the features that you expect when they sell you a product.
- Steam doesn't ask me the password every time I log in, even if I tell Epic to remember this PC, it's mine, I am the good guy.
- Forum, it's hilarious when EPIC customers come to the Steam forums of other games of the developer to request help for technical issues or gameplay hints.
- Guides, mods workshop, Screenshots, Videos, etc, a real gaming community.
- Support for Virtual Reality, controllers configurations, plaaying the game on your TV.

I could go on and go on. Ah, and the great feeling that you don't support a greedy and obnoxious developer that wastes money in temporary exclusives (one of the worst policies of console companies in the past) while they don't spend a damn cent fixing its gargage plataform and storefront.

[SimplyRedie]

Originally posted by potato:

Originally posted by Calastair:

If you actually took all the users that purely use it as a store front like steam your numbers would be dramatically lower.

yea, during the apple vs epic court case epic declared the average amount a user spends on the epic store is 4 bucks

thats not even funny. Thats full on failure.

[LoboFH]

I bought few games there:

- Fortnite before the battle royale crap, Free2Play change and the obnoxious excusivity deals, it was a very fun PvE game.

- WWZ, my mistake, I thought it would never come to Steam, bought it again here on a sale.

- Satisfactory, again a mistake, I couldn't wait, I improved since. Also liberated here on Steam.

- some indies: Journey, Observation and Genesis Alpha One.

That's it, less than $150 ever. And they won't see more the colour of my wallet most likely. I am waiting patiently for Dead Island 2, that game of TLOTR Moria, etc.

[LynX]

Originally posted by Clint NoNerdyW✪✪D:

Originally posted by potato:

epic store is on pc no matter how much in denial you're pretending to be in

Everyone plays on steam, that's like saying an indie film released in one cinema in the world, the film was out but nobody saw it or knew it was out. That's the same as it never releasing, so the game wasn't on PC.

That is the weirdest thing to double down on. Out of everything possible. You chose a literal fact that is countered by saying "play fortnite on pc"

[Mike]

Originally posted by Bing_Chilling:

Originally posted by Calastair:

You are literally raging on a steam thread about how steam is bad and epic is good.
Like literally raging over several days which means you constantly come back to this thread looking to argue.

You are delusional, seek help

lmfao ok snowflake

Said the one that is raging because he got triggered not only on this thread but about 6 different others in the dead island 2 section