Predator: Hunting Grounds Coming to Steam?

[TheRealGumbo™]

I'm considering getting the new predator game on the epic games store, but there is a steamworks folder in the files for the trial of the game.

https://i.gyazo.com/38c842d7bf0e3c6034ca43fa0aa8c9e3.png

does anyone know if this is proof that it'll come to steam eventually?

(P.S. The game is by the same makers of Friday the 13th, which is on steam.)

[titanopteryx]

I just typed that question into google and found this as an answer

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/03/27/is-predator-hunting-grounds-coming-to-xbox-one-steam/

[TheRealGumbo™]

Thanks for the info

[Kaman11]

To be fair the article above seems like SEO targeting click-bait garbage. All that mumbo-jumbo just to say that at launch, the game won't be on steam. EPIC usually sings 1-year exclusive deals. Eventually it might come on steam. Wait and see if it still has a player-base until then.

[Fataga]

Quite simple. When it comes to steam, me and my friends buy and play it. If it doesn't come to steam, we don't buy it. Out.

[FAHNENJOKER]

It’s just circumstantial evidence for now, but still a nice find. Of course, it could just be some old file they forgot, when they once planned to release on steam but then made the epic deal. But this still gives me hope for an eventual steam release. If it comes here, I will definitely buy it!

[WhiteKnight]

It most likely was planned for steam release and Epic Games bribed them not to release here. It was similar case with Trackmania which now EGS & Uplay exclusive and Snowrunner had steam workshop data too.

[Chika Ogiue]

Valve have new rules dealing with exclusivity. A game can only be sold exclusively outside Steam for 1 month (or 30 days). If a Steam release is also planned it must release immediately after that 30 day period is up, or Valve will not allow it on Steam.

The only exceptions to that rule should be any game for which an exclusivity deal was made before Valve implemented that rule.

[TheRealGumbo™]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

Valve have new rules dealing with exclusivity. A game can only be sold exclusively outside Steam for 1 month (or 30 days). If a Steam release is also planned it must release immediately after that 30 day period is up, or Valve will not allow it on Steam.

The only exceptions to that rule should be any game for which an exclusivity deal was made before Valve implemented that rule.

That's actually pretty interesting news. I hope this'll lead to pressuring more games to release on steam, rather than closing any chances of future games coming to this platform.

[WhiteKnight]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

Valve have new rules dealing with exclusivity. A game can only be sold exclusively outside Steam for 1 month (or 30 days). If a Steam release is also planned it must release immediately after that 30 day period is up, or Valve will not allow it on Steam.

The only exceptions to that rule should be any game for which an exclusivity deal was made before Valve implemented that rule.

It's not a new rule. It has been there for a while from 2017 according to some people.

[Chika Ogiue]

And those people are likely wrong. RDR2 was the first major release that I recall to have been subjected to the clause. It released on Steam within that 30 day period.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

And those people are likely wrong. RDR2 was the first major release that I recall to have been subjected to the clause. It released on Steam within that 30 day period.

It's not a new rule.

Borderlands, and some others had exclusivity for a year, or less.

RDR2 was the only one that only did it for one month exclusivity.

[Sleepy Yoshi]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

Valve have new rules dealing with exclusivity. A game can only be sold exclusively outside Steam for 1 month (or 30 days). If a Steam release is also planned it must release immediately after that 30 day period is up, or Valve will not allow it on Steam.

The only exceptions to that rule should be any game for which an exclusivity deal was made before Valve implemented that rule.

The agreement does not prevent exclusivity in and of itself. It does two things.

1)If you join the distribution program prior to release, then the game must release on Steam at the same time as other stores i.e. you can't keep your store page and release it somewhere else.

2)If you have an already released game outside of Steam, when you join the distribution program, you have 30 days to release it on Steam i.e. you can't keep your store page for greater than 30 days.

So you could still release a game on Epic for 11 months, sign Steam's agreements at the end of that, and release it on Steam 1 month later and be in line with the agreement. Or you could release your game on console and port it to PC at a later date and then set it up on Steam. It basically only prevents free advertising on the Steam platform. Not that they enforce this. There are still at least a dozen games that have store pages that are exclusive on Epic that launched after the reddit post started making rounds and other media picked up the story.

As far as if this is new, it's not. Here is a 2017 agreement and section 2.1 says the same thing.
https://imgur.com/a/9ZZ46kA

That's the agreement SidAlpha uses in his update video to tell his viewers his previous video about this being a 'new' change was wrong.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by TheRealGumbo™:

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

Valve have new rules dealing with exclusivity. A game can only be sold exclusively outside Steam for 1 month (or 30 days). If a Steam release is also planned it must release immediately after that 30 day period is up, or Valve will not allow it on Steam.

The only exceptions to that rule should be any game for which an exclusivity deal was made before Valve implemented that rule.

That's actually pretty interesting news. I hope this'll lead to pressuring more games to release on steam, rather than closing any chances of future games coming to this platform.

It won't. That clause has been in agreements for years now. Valve, however, simply chooses to not enforce it.

Valve is not a company that pressures devs/publishers and prefers choice.

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And what does that tell us? Valve are the good guys.

[Getty]

40$ for an always online game with ~20 minutes queues. HMM
i do hope it comes to steam so we can see some player stats