Kingdom Hearts on Steam breakdown

[Robofish]

Alright so a lot of you Kingdom Hearts fans have been asking this question "When is Kingdom Hearts coming to Steam?" and you will get all sorts of answers like "It will never come to steam" or "lol gay ass buy it on egs" so I thought I'd put my two cents into this discussion.

First off, no it's not permanently exclusive to the Epic Games Store, otherwise they would have said so. Most epic games exclusivity only lasts around a year.

I have been scouring through the internet and couldn't find much of anything related until I found a reddit post that talks about how the latest update of the Kingdom Hearts games seems to have traces of code relating to the Steam Deck (Reddit post: I noticed Steam Input Strings in KH3 i didnt notice it before was that recently added?). From what I have read from the comments this has been confirmed by the SteamDB team.

This to me makes me believe that Square Enix is working on a Steam release but are wanting to make it Steam Deck compatible first before making an announcement. As for why they're taking so long when other games such as Final Fantasy 7 and Twewy didn't take as long... well, it's a collection of games.

Kingdom Hearts 1.5 includes Kingdom Hearts, Chain of Memories and cutscenes of 358/2 days. Kingdom Hearts 2.5 includes Kingdom Hearts 2, Birth by Sleep and cutscenes from re:coded
Kingdom Hearts 2.8 includes Dream Drop Distance and Birth by Sleep 0.2
Then you have Kingdom Hearts 3

That's like 7 games to get working on the Steam Deck as opposed to one so it's obviously going to take a lot longer to make each game compatible with the Steam Deck.

[Saven]

It isn’t coming to steam :(

[Mars]

Saven님이 먼저 게시:

It isn’t coming to steam :(

Valued opinion, trusted source, I'm sure.

[Aya]

Mars님이 먼저 게시:

Saven님이 먼저 게시:

It isn’t coming to steam :(

Valued opinion, trusted source, I'm sure.

Time to quote myself

Aya님이 먼저 게시:

If Kingdom Hearts' EGS exclusivity was really just as simple as every other one, you'd all be playing the games on Steam by now because the timed exclusivity period would've expired twice over

It hasn't, and you're still speculating about the circumstances of its exclusivity instead of playing the game. I'm pretty sure that the port only happened with Epic's money. And quite frankly, I think we need more EGS exclusivity deals similar to KH where PC ports of certain games can even exist at all

Though personally, I kinda feel like i could've worded that better, cuz I meant that there are games that will never be on PC, and Epic Games' money can change that. The Kingdom Hearts trilogy was among such games, and guess what? Epic threw money at it. And now PC ports of those games exist.

[Khrainos🧿]

Aya님이 먼저 게시:

Mars님이 먼저 게시:

Valued opinion, trusted source, I'm sure.

Time to quote myself

Aya님이 먼저 게시:

If Kingdom Hearts' EGS exclusivity was really just as simple as every other one, you'd all be playing the games on Steam by now because the timed exclusivity period would've expired twice over

It hasn't, and you're still speculating about the circumstances of its exclusivity instead of playing the game. I'm pretty sure that the port only happened with Epic's money. And quite frankly, I think we need more EGS exclusivity deals similar to KH where PC ports of certain games can even exist at all

Though personally, I kinda feel like i could've worded that better, cuz I meant that there are games that will never be on PC, and Epic Games' money can change that. The Kingdom Hearts trilogy was among such games, and guess what? Epic threw money at it. And now PC ports of those games exist.

You mean setting up sails to acquire them.

[Mars]

Aya님이 먼저 게시:

Mars님이 먼저 게시:

Valued opinion, trusted source, I'm sure.

Time to quote myself

Aya님이 먼저 게시:

If Kingdom Hearts' EGS exclusivity was really just as simple as every other one, you'd all be playing the games on Steam by now because the timed exclusivity period would've expired twice over

It hasn't, and you're still speculating about the circumstances of its exclusivity instead of playing the game. I'm pretty sure that the port only happened with Epic's money. And quite frankly, I think we need more EGS exclusivity deals similar to KH where PC ports of certain games can even exist at all

Though personally, I kinda feel like i could've worded that better, cuz I meant that there are games that will never be on PC, and Epic Games' money can change that. The Kingdom Hearts trilogy was among such games, and guess what? Epic threw money at it. And now PC ports of those games exist.

That's a nice theory. But if that were true, surely they would promote Kingdom Hearts on Epic Games more than they have, and especially mention the permanent exclusive contract, in order to dry out the potential of the sales? It wouldn't help either Disney, Square, or Epic to create a contract where they aren't allowed to advertise it's permanent exclusivity.

[Aya]

Khrainos🧿님이 먼저 게시:

Aya님이 먼저 게시:

Time to quote myself


Though personally, I kinda feel like i could've worded that better, cuz I meant that there are games that will never be on PC, and Epic Games' money can change that. The Kingdom Hearts trilogy was among such games, and guess what? Epic threw money at it. And now PC ports of those games exist.

You mean setting up sails to acquire them.

I mean choosing a lesser evil between having a PC port that exists because the developer was bribed into making it, or allowing a developer's personal superstitions and/or asinine expectations to decide whether they want to bring their games to a platform they loathe.

[Raging Panda]

Aya님이 먼저 게시:

Mars님이 먼저 게시:

Valued opinion, trusted source, I'm sure.

Time to quote myself

Aya님이 먼저 게시:

If Kingdom Hearts' EGS exclusivity was really just as simple as every other one, you'd all be playing the games on Steam by now because the timed exclusivity period would've expired twice over

It hasn't, and you're still speculating about the circumstances of its exclusivity instead of playing the game. I'm pretty sure that the port only happened with Epic's money. And quite frankly, I think we need more EGS exclusivity deals similar to KH where PC ports of certain games can even exist at all

Though personally, I kinda feel like i could've worded that better, cuz I meant that there are games that will never be on PC, and Epic Games' money can change that. The Kingdom Hearts trilogy was among such games, and guess what? Epic threw money at it. And now PC ports of those games exist.

I don't think they were bribed. Did you ever read the countless rebuttles to this. It wasn't paid for by Epic. Epic brought them via unreal engine. That's it. Just because something uses unreal engine doesn't mean it's tied to Epic.

[Andrei]

Raging Panda님이 먼저 게시:

Aya님이 먼저 게시:

Time to quote myself


Though personally, I kinda feel like i could've worded that better, cuz I meant that there are games that will never be on PC, and Epic Games' money can change that. The Kingdom Hearts trilogy was among such games, and guess what? Epic threw money at it. And now PC ports of those games exist.

I don't think they were bribed. Did you ever read the countless rebuttles to this. It wasn't paid for by Epic. Epic brought them via unreal engine. That's it. Just because something uses unreal engine doesn't mean it's tied to Epic.

Epic gave them great support with Unreal Engine ? What does that mean ? I expect a company like SE doesn’t need any help from Epic for developing games. In the announcement for the PC version of KH it sounds like whenever we needed help Epic was there to help us. Maybe SE got a nice deal for licensing the UE they get it cheap and as a good will KH is Epic exclusive for a long time.

[Raging Panda]

Andrei님이 먼저 게시:

Raging Panda님이 먼저 게시:

I don't think they were bribed. Did you ever read the countless rebuttles to this. It wasn't paid for by Epic. Epic brought them via unreal engine. That's it. Just because something uses unreal engine doesn't mean it's tied to Epic.

Epic gave them great support with Unreal Engine ? What does that mean ? I expect a company like SE doesn’t need any help from Epic for developing games. In the announcement for the PC version of KH it sounds like whenever we needed help Epic was there to help us. Maybe SE got a nice deal for licensing the UE they get it cheap and as a good will KH is Epic exclusive for a long time.

It's a brand new engine. There's a learning curve.

[Bitwolf]

Andrei님이 먼저 게시:

Raging Panda님이 먼저 게시:

I don't think they were bribed. Did you ever read the countless rebuttles to this. It wasn't paid for by Epic. Epic brought them via unreal engine. That's it. Just because something uses unreal engine doesn't mean it's tied to Epic.

Epic gave them great support with Unreal Engine ? What does that mean ? I expect a company like SE doesn’t need any help from Epic for developing games. In the announcement for the PC version of KH it sounds like whenever we needed help Epic was there to help us. Maybe SE got a nice deal for licensing the UE they get it cheap and as a good will KH is Epic exclusive for a long time.

When KH 3 released not only was UE4 not the massive used in every game powerhouse it is today, but KH3 also had to be moved off of squares in house Luminous engine due to development turmoil. So Epic having to provide them tons of support makes way more sense in that era.

[AdemiGod]

Should shadow drop sometime between March 30th-April 30th.

[RPG Gamer Man]

AdemiGod님이 먼저 게시:

Should shadow drop sometime between March 30th-April 30th.

We can all hope. The way square enix has been doing some games are shadow drops. Just look how they did dragon quest builders 1.

[Mars]

RPG Gamer Man님이 먼저 게시:

AdemiGod님이 먼저 게시:

Should shadow drop sometime between March 30th-April 30th.

We can all hope. The way square enix has been doing some games are shadow drops. Just look how they did dragon quest builders 1.

They did that with NEO:TWEWY as well. But the strange thing is, Tchia was also an Epic exclusive, but totally advertised their Steam drop months in advance.

[Raging Panda]

RPG Gamer Man님이 먼저 게시:

AdemiGod님이 먼저 게시:

Should shadow drop sometime between March 30th-April 30th.

We can all hope. The way square enix has been doing some games are shadow drops. Just look how they did dragon quest builders 1.

Yeah I JUST found out that builders 1 one was available! Finally.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Raging Panda님이 먼저 게시:

RPG Gamer Man님이 먼저 게시:

We can all hope. The way square enix has been doing some games are shadow drops. Just look how they did dragon quest builders 1.

Yeah I JUST found out that builders 1 one was available! Finally.

Can get it off GreenManGaming for 17% off using code MAR17 or if gold member it's automatically apply 20% discount.