Another Game, Another Published Lost to Epic

[Thunderblaze Krakenclub]

Looks like Square Enix has fully embraced the EPIC store with only putting Final Fantasy 7 Remake for PC there instead of Steam where they have sold every other Final Fantasy.

Is Steam going to do something about major Publishers/games continuing to go to Epic first due to the price differences? Will they change their structure or otherwise entice them to come back?

I still follow no Steam no buy.

[my new friend]

Just found an article from last year and this writer did foresee the MS/Activision bit but has a good point about MS could take the formerly exclusive titles that Sony had in the past and make them their own exclusives just to turn that knife some more.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/04/16/report-someone-wants-to-buy-square-enix-could-microsoft-and-sony-be-circling/?sh=4278d8ff74fe

[AbedsBrother]

Thunderblaze Krakenclub님이 먼저 게시:

Is Steam going to do something about major Publishers/games continuing to go to Epic first due to the price differences? Will they change their structure or otherwise entice them to come back?

Steam users have demonstrated a willingness to wait to play a game until it is available on Steam, so why would Valve change anything?

[Haruspex]

AbedsBrother님이 먼저 게시:

Thunderblaze Krakenclub님이 먼저 게시:

Is Steam going to do something about major Publishers/games continuing to go to Epic first due to the price differences? Will they change their structure or otherwise entice them to come back?

Steam users have demonstrated a willingness to wait to play a game until it is available on Steam, so why would Valve change anything?

Valve can't and won't change anything, of course, and you're right. If we look at it from Square's perspective:

1: Nice immediate exclusivity payoff from Epic. Kaching.
2: 88% revenue from Epic sales by Epic-using early adopters and the impatient.
3: 2nd release day revenue at 70% about a year or so later when you release on Steam from their gigantic user base, and Steam faithful users are almost as excited to spend their money as if the game were brand new, because to them it is brand new.

It's win-win-win for Square.

I think what we're seeing is a shift to a system similar to movie releases. Movies enjoy multiple releases which each have their own revenue bump, and the timing is important to maximize that bump.

1: Theatrical release.
2: Streaming exclusive deals.
3: Bluray/DVD home release.

If Epic can figure out how to make handing giant exclusivity money sacks to publishers profitable, then this may be the new normal. If not, then the payoffs will eventually stop and the benefit of releasing timed exclusives on Epic evaporates. We'll see a return to normal.

[UwU King👑Pikachu]

No steam no buy gang!!!

[Brian9824]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1462040/FINAL_FANTASY_VII_REMAKE_INTERGRADE/

[sfnhltb]

AbedsBrother님이 먼저 게시:

Steam users have demonstrated a willingness to wait to play a game until it is available on Steam, so why would Valve change anything?

Whether it is Steam's Early Access, or Epics Exclusive deals, both effectively are a bunch of people paying to volunteer as a second wave of beta testers (or sometimes alpha testers), once either has ended that is when a person that doesn't want to spend their time struggling through the buggy mess that so many new releases tend to be will start to consider buying

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

competition is good - dont want a game monopoly like the microsoft service monopoly that forces everyone to have certain extra pet hardware

[Jordan1920204]

I don't get switching to EPIC either. I mean, on Steam you have a wider market and therefore a bigger potential consumer pool.

[Devsman]

HypersleepyNaputunia님이 먼저 게시:

competition is good - dont want a game monopoly like the microsoft service monopoly that forces everyone to have certain extra pet hardware

Though exclusives are exactly how competetion isn't supposed to work.