Billionaire Tim Sweeney: Free Games > Exclusivity Deals for Epic Games Store

[squirrels_oh_no]

Tim Sweeney Says Many Epic Games Store Exclusivity Deals "Were Not Good Investments" https://t.co/WV8kC5ZYlY pic.twitter.com/hd8agWPmk7
- GameSpot (@GameSpot) August 16, 2024
- North Carolina's second richest man says exclusivity deals lost Epic Games (creators of Fortnite and Unreal Engine) money and were not a good investment for the company

Comments

[helliosx]

I know Epic had timed exclusivity on a lot of console ports, and stuff like Borderlands 3 launched with a year exclusivity too.

A month or two ago Kingdom Hearts series dropped on Steam, when it had been on Epic for at least a year if not more, and literally everyone acted like Kingdom Hearts is FINALLY on PC... I do not get storefront loyalty. Not to mention, I've played quite a few of the free games (I think I've claimed every one, bar for 2-3 since they started doing this in 2018) and that's more than I can say for Steam.

IDK monopoly is de-facto bad and nobody is standing up against Steam, and Gabe will not live forever, and they'll start exploiting their position as an industry leader to detriment both to gamers and developers/publishers.

[squirrels_oh_no]

I get what you're saying for real. I wish EGS had a better UI because it's just aggressively meh. I know (well, knew - we no longer speak LOL) a guy who refused to even consider downloading Epic Games even when a game he wanted was free on it. And I have no clue what his issue was. He didn't even seem to know, he was just THAT loyal to Steam for unknown reasons.

[moirasrose]

the whole genesis does what nintendon't thing really rotted some people's brains, but i can understand it from a perspective that you want all your games in one place. that's a major reason i stick to playstation.

[squirrels_oh_no]

I get that. I played one game on Gamepass and then bought the Ultimate Edition on Steam (it was Control since I mentioned that in my post lmao) and because I couldn't transfer saves, I just went and watched the Control DLCs on Youtube instead of having to immediately replay the game LOL.

[helliosx]

I'm so old I remember Steam having all those problems too, just ram hungry, glitchy, etc etc
Thankfully ram prices went down, because they did not make Steam any more lightweight

I do not get brand loyalty. I just don't. They operate in billions and here I'm looking how I'm gonna save $5 buying a game someplace else...
I def get the convenience of having all your games in one place tho

[squirrels_oh_no]

The issue with multiple stores is that I am pretty sure at one point I bought Sims 4 but I have zero clue where it is. Well, I know it's on Origin, but logging into that launcher is a pain in the ass for some reason.

[helliosx]

Origin is the second worst right after Ubisoft. They can burn in hell for that abomination.

[helliosx]

So... These are mostly indies besides RCT, SR
[Free games from Epic that I enjoyed]
- Lumbear Jack
- A Short Hike
- AER memories of
- Cave Story
- My Time At Portia
- RiME (omg loved this one)
- Rollercoaster Tycoon collection
- Saint's Row 1,2,3,4, reboot,
- shapez

[Games that are considered good]
- Alan Wake
- Alien Isolation
- Amnesia series
- Batman Arkham trilogy
- Bioshock 1, 2, Infinite
- Bloonds TD 6
- Borderlands 2, 3, pre-sequel
- Celeste
- Cities Skylines
- Control
- Darksiders 1, 2
- Dead by Daylight
- Death Stranding
- Detroit Become Human
- Dishonored
- Dragon Age Inquisition
- Drawful 2
- Fallout 1,2,3,t, nw
- GTA 5
- Hitman 1,3
- Just Cause 4
- LEGO Batman trilogy
- Metro 2033, dying light
- Nioh
- Overcooked 1,2
- Prey
- Rayman Legends
- Sable
- Shenmue 3
- Super Meat Boy
- The Evil Within 1,2
- The Outer World
- Stanley Parable
- Tomb Raider reboot
- Watchdogs 1,2
- Yooka-laylee

If somebody claimed all these games thru the years, they could have such a good time playing all these, let a lone a bunch of other that were given out that I never tried myself.

[squirrels_oh_no]

And I see a few that I missed that I want to play LOL - mostly Alien Isolation, which is on sale on Steam right now but alas I am too broke for $7.99 haha.

Detroit Become Human, though, IDK about that one being THAT good.

[helliosx]

no I know... it's fuck david cage always... but the game is notoriety even if not... good.

[squirrels_oh_no]

I watched a playthrough when it came out and it felt so short, and also clearly someone who knows jackshit about prejudice thinking they were suddenly an expert. And given his comments, he proved he knows jackshit about anything.