Why Did Steam Lose All Games to Epic Games?

[Jozramoth]

Saints Row, Dead Islands 2, Far Cry 6, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Alan Wake Remastered, Alan Wake 2, Crysis Remastered Trilogy, Evil Dead: The Game, Goat Simulator 3. and more...

[BloodShed]

They will come to Steam eventually.

Valve doesn't need to (and won't) pay for exclusivity.

[Cathulhu]

Games like Stray, God of War, Spider-Man Remastered, Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe, LEGO Star Wars: Skywalker Saga, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Elden Ring, Cult of the Lamb, Death Stranding: Director's Cut, Rogue Legacy 2, Hardspace: Shipbreaker and more...

Those do not count as games?

[Jozramoth]

steam needs it now.

[Supafly]

Because Epic thinks that paying for exclusive rights they'll get more customers to buy the non exclusive content.

Can't speak for all but I will say everyone I know, including myself, claim the free games and haven't purchased a thing from Epic. Hell I have yet to even download and install the Epic client and play any of the free games I've claimed.

[Cathulhu]

Publicado originalmente por Zehra:

steam needs it now.

Why? Userbase is still steadily growing and compared to Epic Games Store Steam is not making a massive net loss by bribing developers and publishers to make exclusivity deals.

If Fortnite wouldn't print money for Epic, the whole platform would have burned and sunk by now.

Publicado originalmente por cagkan:

god of war is available in epic

So what? We are talking about Steam here.

[Supafly]

Publicado originalmente por Zehra:

steam needs it now.

That's what you think but Valve clearly does not or it would have done something over a year ago

[Cathulhu]

And you're wrong as i've already demonstrated.

[Jozramoth]

for example, i want to play far cry 6. I don't buy it because it's on Epic games.

[Supafly]

Publicado originalmente por cagkan:

Yes I am doing the same as you but this is kinda getting annoying now since every big new game is only in epic store

Maybe so but I already have a big enough backlog of games I still haven't played so I have more than enough to play until something comes to Steam, unless I get it for PS5 during that time.

[Brian9824]

Publicado originalmente por Zehra:

Saints Row, Dead Islands 2, Far Cry 6, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Alan Wake Remastered, Alan Wake 2, Crysis Remastered Trilogy, Evil Dead: The Game, Goat Simulator 3. and more...

Because Epic is willing to lose billions of dollars to bribe dev's just so they are TEMPORARILY on their store. Steam has quite a few major name games as well that EPIC doesn't have without having to bribe and lose billions of dollars.

[feytharn]

Publicado originalmente por Zehra:

for example, i want to play far cry 6. I don't buy it because it's on Epic games.

You would need to install Ubisoft connect to play it, anyway. There isn't much of a downside in buying the game directly from Ubisoft.

[Supafly]

Publicado originalmente por cagkan:

Publicado originalmente por Cathulhu:

Why? Userbase is still steadily growing and compared to Epic Games Store Steam is not making a massive net loss by bribing developers and publishers to make exclusivity deals.

If Fortnite wouldn't print money for Epic, the whole platform would have burned and sunk by now.


So what? We are talking about Steam here.

so I don't get what you are trying to say. Are you defending steam and saying they are doing a good thing ?

OP was complaining about games not coming to Steam but are on Epic. That list of games listed by Cathulhu was games that have came to Steam as a way to point out flaws in the OPs viewpoint.

[Cathulhu]

Publicado originalmente por cagkan:

so I don't get what you are trying to say. Are you defending steam and saying they are doing a good thing ?

You mean, by not burning tons of money? Yeah, works well for Valve.

Steam itself runs fine. EGS may have exclusivity deals, but those are temporary and afterwards games usually are released elsewhere too. Well, maybe with the exception of Ubisoft games.

On the other hand Valve is very profitable not only with Steam, but also with their VR gear Index and the portable PC SteamDeck.

They also contribute to the openness of gaming by heavily supporting gaming on Linux.
Unlike Epic who literally cancelled the Linux version of Easy Anti Cheat after they've bought its company.

[BloodShed]

Publicado originalmente por Zehra:

for example, i want to play far cry 6. I don't buy it because it's on Epic games.

Then buy it on the Ubisoft Store.

[Brian9824]

Publicado originalmente por Zehra:

for example, i want to play far cry 6. I don't buy it because it's on Epic games.

Then play one of the other games on Steam or buy it on EPIC or the Uplay store. Epic only has the exclusives because they pay off the developers and the EPIC store can't generate a profit and has lost over a billion dollars because of it.

Steam isn't going to throw away money like EPIC does, they can get good games without having to pay for them.

Although Far Cry 6 isn't an Epic exclusive, its sold on the Uplay store.