Can I move GTA V from Epic Games to Steam?

[Sectorfive]

I mean since I already own the Game would It be a big deal for Rockstar to move the game from one account to other, if they have any support?

Does anyone have any experience with this?

[J4MESOX4D]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Kamey:

Diposting pertama kali oleh rawWwRrr:

They have a fee. It's called buying it from Steam.

This is a dumb answer that's not a fee but rebuying the whole game again, why would I want that, if I already paid for it on Epic Games, that would make the cost of all this go into 100s of dollars, a fee would be if they made me pay 5$ to move the game from Epic to Steam, which I would be up to, I'd pay for this.

Why the hell should Steam provide their services to you for a game you bought (or got for free) on a rival platform? That's like me buying a meal from McDonalds and then walking into Burger King and asking for a sources and to eat it in there.

This platform has huge operating costs and the last thing Valve want to do is strain their cloud and data services for external games bought on other platforms giving players and developers a free ride. Not even a fee would compensate the difference and a move like that would be extremely tasteless for this industry.

[Strike-Team]

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Kamey:

This is a dumb answer that's not a fee but rebuying the whole game again, why would I want that, if I already paid for it on Epic Games, that would make the cost of all this go into 100s of dollars, a fee would be if they made me pay 5$ to move the game from Epic to Steam, which I would be up to, I'd pay for this.

Why the hell should Steam provide their services to you for a game you bought (or got for free) on a rival platform? That's like me buying a meal from McDonalds and then walking into Burger King and asking for a sources and to eat it in there.

This platform has huge operating costs and the last thing Valve want to do is strain their cloud and data services for external games bought on other platforms giving players and developers a free ride. Not even a fee would compensate the difference and a move like that would be extremely tasteless for this industry.

I agree with you. If you want to use steam, you should shop here, other than that, your problem cannot be solved.

[Nx Machina]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Kamey:

This is a dumb answer that's not a fee but rebuying the whole game again, why would I want that, if I already paid for it on Epic Games, that would make the cost of all this go into 100s of dollars, a fee would be if they made me pay 5$ to move the game from Epic to Steam, which I would be up to, I'd pay for this.

Epic gave away the premium edition for free after paying Rockstar to do so.

Secondly a game is tied to your account via the licence on which ever platform you got it on, Rockstar Launcher, Steam, Epic Store etc and is non transferable. With regard to GTAV it is also linked to your Rockstar account which in turn is linked to the PC store you got the game on and only that PC store.

[Brian9824]

No its not a thing, otherwise you would just have 1 person make an EPIC account and buy games and then have someone else make a Steam account and then you can get the games transferred there for a 2nd person....

Epic has no way to prove both those accounts are yours and not your friends account who gave you his credentials to get free/cheap games.

[Sectorfive]

Diposting pertama kali oleh J4MESOX4D:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Kamey:

This is a dumb answer that's not a fee but rebuying the whole game again, why would I want that, if I already paid for it on Epic Games, that would make the cost of all this go into 100s of dollars, a fee would be if they made me pay 5$ to move the game from Epic to Steam, which I would be up to, I'd pay for this.

Why the hell should Steam provide their services to you for a game you bought (or got for free) on a rival platform? That's like me buying a meal from McDonalds and then walking into Burger King and asking for a sources and to eat it in there.

This platform has huge operating costs and the last thing Valve want to do is strain their cloud and data services for external games bought on other platforms giving players and developers a free ride. Not even a fee would compensate the difference and a move like that would be extremely tasteless for this industry.

why? what do you mean why? because they want me to use their platform because then I keep buying games on their platform instead of their competitors it's a common sense, it's a investment for the future, also because I paid them a transfer fee they earned the money from me, that lets them keep their server running and cover other costs, and since the developer already got the money from me after I bought it on Epic Games means that it would be that cheap to move, without me needing to buy the game again if they wanted it, if everyone cared more about customers and customer rights.

[Sectorfive]

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Diposting pertama kali oleh J4MESOX4D:

Why the hell should Steam provide their services to you for a game you bought (or got for free) on a rival platform? That's like me buying a meal from McDonalds and then walking into Burger King and asking for a sources and to eat it in there.

This platform has huge operating costs and the last thing Valve want to do is strain their cloud and data services for external games bought on other platforms giving players and developers a free ride. Not even a fee would compensate the difference and a move like that would be extremely tasteless for this industry.

why? what do you mean why? because they want me to use their platform because then I keep buying games on their platform instead of their competitors it's a common sense, it's a investment for the future, also because I paid them a transfer fee they earned the money from me, that lets them keep their server running and cover other costs, and since the developer already got the money from me after I bought it on Epic Games means that it would be that cheap to move, without me needing to buy the game again if they wanted it, if everyone cared more about customers and customer rights.

Diposting pertama kali oleh Nx Machina:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Kamey:

This is a dumb answer that's not a fee but rebuying the whole game again, why would I want that, if I already paid for it on Epic Games, that would make the cost of all this go into 100s of dollars, a fee would be if they made me pay 5$ to move the game from Epic to Steam, which I would be up to, I'd pay for this.

Epic gave away the premium edition for free after paying Rockstar to do so.

Secondly a game is tied to your account via the licence on which ever platform you got it on, Rockstar Launcher, Steam, Epic Store etc and is non transferable. With regard to GTAV it is also linked to your Rockstar account which in turn is linked to the PC store you got the game on and only that PC store.

This doesn't even matter, because all epic games is forcing you to do is to open rockstar launcher to play it anyways, so is steam too, because rockstar wanted to force their launcher on everyone, the game and its license is actually on the rockstar launcher under my rockstar social club account, it's like that for anyone, it would be easy for them to transfer the game.

[Sectorfive]

Diposting pertama kali oleh brian9824:

No its not a thing, otherwise you would just have 1 person make an EPIC account and buy games and then have someone else make a Steam account and then you can get the games transferred there for a 2nd person....

Epic has no way to prove both those accounts are yours and not your friends account who gave you his credentials to get free/cheap games.

That is called copying not transferring, I specifically said "transferring" which means you take some object from one place and move it to another, you don't clone it or cut it in half, in case with steam and epic that would mean once the game is transferred to steam then it would vanish/be gone from your epic games account.

[J4MESOX4D]

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Diposting pertama kali oleh J4MESOX4D:

Why the hell should Steam provide their services to you for a game you bought (or got for free) on a rival platform? That's like me buying a meal from McDonalds and then walking into Burger King and asking for a sources and to eat it in there.

This platform has huge operating costs and the last thing Valve want to do is strain their cloud and data services for external games bought on other platforms giving players and developers a free ride. Not even a fee would compensate the difference and a move like that would be extremely tasteless for this industry.

why? what do you mean why? because they want me to use their platform because then I keep buying games on their platform instead of their competitors it's a common sense, it's a investment for the future, also because I paid them a transfer fee they earned the money from me, that lets them keep their server running and cover other costs, and since the developer already got the money from me after I bought it on Epic Games means that it would be that cheap to move, without me needing to buy the game again if they wanted it, if everyone cared more about customers and customer rights.

Do you really think Epic are going to spend hundreds of millions to give away free games and also facilitate a global store with significant operating costs, only for their customers to take their products and have them transferred to a competitor? That's absolutely absurd. What's even more ridiculous is your proposal that Valve monopolise this licence transference by charging a fee. Epic would take Steam to the literal cleaners under competition laws in the courts if this was merely suggested. Epic Games want to capture and retain a customer base - not allow them to take the games and run or transfer their licences to a industry rival they are directly competing against.

That's like owning a shop, giving away your goods for free or selling exclusive products and then a rival store round the corner charging the customer to have your product maintained. A double kick in the teeth. You got the game for free or bought it on Epic so that's where your licence is housed and it cannot be transferred. No offence but this is one of the most poorly informed suggestions I have ever seen. If you're willing to pay a transfer fee then you should be willing to buy the game on the platform you want.

[Brian9824]

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Diposting pertama kali oleh brian9824:

No its not a thing, otherwise you would just have 1 person make an EPIC account and buy games and then have someone else make a Steam account and then you can get the games transferred there for a 2nd person....

Epic has no way to prove both those accounts are yours and not your friends account who gave you his credentials to get free/cheap games.

That is called copying not transferring, I specifically said "transferring" which means you take some object from one place and move it to another, you don't clone it or cut it in half, in case with steam and epic that would mean once the game is transferred to steam then it would vanish/be gone from your epic games account.

That is even worse and same logic. You buy a game on a platform you have to use that platform. If the dev's wanted to let you own it on multiple platforms they can already do so. For instance Bethesda gave free copies of their games that people bought on their store to Steam users

[Haruspex]

I love seeing these threads. Epic fans like to say that it doesn't matter where you get your PC games, but then we get threads like these where people already have the game, but would still rather have it on Steam anyway. It's almost like there's value in owning your PC games on an established and feature rich platform like Steam, rather than a barebones one like Epic.

GTAV regularly goes on sale for about $15 on Steam. In fact, it's 50% off right now, at least for the next few hours until the Spring Sale ends. You can consider that your "transfer fee".

[Nx Machina]

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if everyone cared more about customers and customer rights.

Your customer rights do not extend to getting a free copy on another PC platform when you chose to get it on Epic. You are sold a single licence which is activated on the PC platform you chose to get the game on.

[Crazy Tiger]

Welcome to the world of licensing, OP. Your license on Epic has no bearing on Steam and vice versa. And as long as licensing exists in the way it currently is, that won't change either.

[Nx Machina]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Kamey:

This doesn't even matter, because all epic games is forcing you to do is to open rockstar launcher to play it anyways, so is steam too, because rockstar wanted to force their launcher on everyone, the game and its license is actually on the rockstar launcher under my rockstar social club account, it's like that for anyone, it would be easy for them to transfer the game.

Rockstar Launcher is required by Rockstar to validate you have the licence on either Epic or Steam to play GTAV. In your case the licence is tied to your Epic account.

I have GTAV on the Rockstar Launcher and in turn the licence is tied to my Rockstar account, which does not give me a free Epic or Steam version.

[Sectorfive]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Harusp3x:

I love seeing these threads. Epic fans like to say that it doesn't matter where you get your PC games, but then we get threads like these where people already have the game, but would still rather have it on Steam anyway. It's almost like there's value in owning your PC games on an established and feature rich platform like Steam, rather than a barebones one like Epic.

GTAV regularly goes on sale for about $15 on Steam. In fact, it's 50% off right now, at least for the next few hours until the Spring Sale ends. You can consider that your "transfer fee".

It's because epic is sh** and most of the tame the game doesn't work.

[Kedai Nasi]

if i buy the game on Steam, can I transfer my already created Rockstar account through EGS to Steam version of the game? getting tired of EGS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up my experiences