Dead Island 2

[dazza0511]

I have to miss this game because of Epic Games trying to compete with Steam. I will never use that trash store and I will only stick to Steam where i can have all my games in one place.

CAN THEY STOP?!?!

[potato]

Originally posted by dazza0511:

CAN THEY STOP?!?!

only if people stop supporting it

[Haruspex]

Do what Valve is doing. Ignore them. The exclusive games over there come to Steam later anyway, and probably at a discount, fully patched.

Besides that, Epic isn't profitable, and they won't be content to just throw money down a hole forever. At some point they'll have to cut their losses and back off.

Also lately, the games that go Epic exclusive aren't great. Dead Island 2 is made by an unproven developer with only one poorly reviewed game under their belt. (Plus a mediocre space shooter that they assisted another studio with.) It spent 8 years in development hell. It got passed around to three different studios before finally landing with the current one. Epic is where publishers go when they have zero faith in their game in the hopes that an exclusivity deal helps cushion the blow from the inevitable critical failure.

[potato]

Originally posted by Harusp3x:

Do what Valve is doing. Ignore them. The exclusive games over there come to Steam later anyway, and probably at a discount, fully patched.

not if it's permanent exclusivity like tony hawk and alan wake 2

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Who cares, let Epic burn their money, if it works it works, if it doesn't it their problem, they can throw money at all the time exclusives they want, but can't complain when other stores are not willing to take part in it.


My advice either wait until it comes to Steam, or buy it on Epic if you don't want to wait, because end of the day it consumer choice to choose where they want to get their game, may it be Epic, Steam or etc, and I see nothing wrong if someone choose to buy on Steam instead of epic, or visa versa.

[Ogami]

In the end , money speaks.
So far nearly every EPIC "exclusive" has come to Steam sooner or later, usually in a much better state then at release and at a discounted price.
If EPIC wants to pay devs to publish their buggy Beta versions and Steam gets the bugfree version with updates and a discount a year later, why not?

In the end EPIC still amounts to absolute nothing on the PC gaming market and without Fortnite they would be some 5th rate store nobody uses.
Now they are a well known store that nobody uses except to play free games like Fortnite or Genshin and grab the free games every week they give away.

If you look at their yearly reports, the average user only spend like 2 dollars on the store in a year, thats beyond pathetic.

Nobody BUYS games on EPIC, everyone just grabs the free stuff and then waits for the Steam release.
Thats why their projections about store growth are years behind schedule and wont get any better anytime soon.

EPIC is not a threat, its a joke store for devs to publish their unfinished buggy games and getting paid for that by EPIC.
I would take that deal too.

[Muppet among Puppets]

You dont miss anything if you wait for it to be on other stores as well.

[ReBoot]

They'll stop someday. Buying market share isn't a sustainable business strategy and the EGS didn't take off all the time Sweene's been buying marketshare.

It's rather probable that this bubble will burst. Until then, so what? There's no shortage of great games on Steam. DE2 can't be literally the only game ever to pique your interest.

[Ȼħⱥꞥꞥēł8753452]

How much you wanna to bet the majority of created users are just sitting and collecting free games and/or only playing fortnite?

Fortnite while still popular has been in decline, and free games are a good way to get new users on paper but ultimately how many of them are actually investing and generating revenue for epic?

[Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥)]

Just see the people playing it on Epic as Beta testers. By the time it gets to Steam the worst bugs are ironed out and you (usually) get it Cheaper as well.

[Crazy Tiger]

People should use whatever storefront they want to use. Heck, people can even use multiple ones. And it's fine if you want to choose one over the other. Though this whole "I have to" rhetoric of course is nonsense when it's actually "I choose to".

[Anonymous Helper]

Originally posted by potato:

only if people stop supporting it

Or when Fortnite stops printing money for them. Epic store itself is only losing them money and that's unlikely to change any time soon.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Channel_04:

How much you wanna to bet the majority of created users are just sitting and collecting free games and/or only playing fortnite?

Fortnite while still popular has been in decline, and free games are a good way to get new users on paper but ultimately how many of them are actually investing and generating revenue for epic?

No need to bet, their own numbers revealed this when they tried to sue apple. They were averaging less then $3 in sales per "user"

[niralamart000]

i forgot this game even existed particularly cause they refuse to sell here, but if epic has actual regional pricing then by all means skip steam. Also their idea about liquid gore is something i had for metal gear rising after playing sam dlc and seeing how the mop effect from sword actually helps in creating the illusion that you are actually cutting the dude. By putting two and two together i had the idea that by making the cut up area melt you can can simulate how realistic and satisfying such high speed slashes would be during gameplay and zandatsu.

[Haruspex]

Originally posted by niralamart000:

i forgot this game even existed...

This is why they call Epic a "marketing black hole". It's where games go to die. There are a couple of examples of games that emerged from that hole and saw success, but they're the exception and not the rule.

[Vanythe]

Corporations only innovate and make the overall user experience better if they have competition. Remember steam pre-2012? How many freebies/promotions did they have? Yeah...