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

[moirasrose]

lmao noo, really?

it was so funny when kingdom hearts finally escaped epic exclusive hell, it charted at #3 on steam.

i hate the fortnite model, how its set up like roblox now, and how that's how they brought back rock band. back in my day, we used to buy the base game and it would come with songs by famous artists. 👵 not this buy each song separately for 5 dollars garbage. ugh. i hate how so many people accept this shit and buy into it.

[bigfuss]

I'm looking at that Reddit list linked. Has anyone played The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria? Any thoughts?

[violue]

Ahh I love logging in to Epic every Thursday to claim my free game(s) that I will never, ever play.

God I just looked and I have 370 games on my Epic account?? I think I bought MAYBE 5 of them.

[squirrels_oh_no]

I went back to Epic Games just to see how many games I've actually bought. I had guessed 5, but it's actually only 4 LMAO. And I have 195 games (I forget sometimes oops).

(And one of the games I bought was Alan Wake Remastered, which I've played in Steam (the original version - Remastered is EGS exclusive) and yet also somehow have a free copy of the original version on Epic. I only got the remastered because I want to support Remedy to make Control 2 which is a terrible excuse, pretty sure Remedy still hasn't seen a penny from AW:R, either.)

[flogg]

I just don’t feel bad for rich people who lose money

[squirrels_oh_no]

Tim Sweeney is sad he's not the richest person in NC or even in Cary - always the billionaire bridesmaid, never the billionaire bride. I bet he feels sorry for himself. Wah wah.

[su_metal]

I got several great games for free, I have never paid a single dollar for these but some of them are worth the money.