Epic Games Announces More Exclusives

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/21/2019 08:50 AM | source: | 61 comment(s)

Epic Games announced added new games that will hot the Epic Games store. Some of the new exclusives include The Outer Worlds, Control, Industries of Titan, Beyond: Two Souls, Detroit: Become Human, Heavy Rain and many more titles. Humble Bundle has been chosen as a distribution partner for the Epic Games store which will allow it to sell Epic Games keys which will be redeemable on the Epic Games store. Epic will receive no revenue share from the sale of those games purchased through the Humble Store. Customers can link their Humble Store accounts to the Epic Games store for direct purchasing.

Epic also announced that Ubisoft will place several titles in the Epic Store. In addition, games from the company's portfolio should become part of the regular, free offers in the store.

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#5652564 Posted on: 03/21/2019 02:24 PM

Most of these will no doubt be timed exclusives, but i can certainly see the point from the game devs side if Epic are throwing a boat load of free cash their way for nothing other than a staggered time released across other digital distribution, and if Epic wants to throw me a free bag of cash as well to make me buy from their store for a year i won't say no. lol

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#5652565 Posted on: 03/21/2019 02:26 PM

i dont get why people find this good at all?!?!?!
its the exclusive Platform wars brought from consoles to PC..

not to mention the other stuff around it, how they accuire the games, privacy issues and more, you all read it, so i guess you know what im talking about..

Way to go and soooo Costumer friendly..

are u freaking kidding me?

edit: i removed one sentence that might have stepped one some toes..

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#5652578 Posted on: 03/21/2019 02:51 PM

i dont get why people find this good at all?!?!?!
its the exclusive Platform wars brought from consoles to PC..

Way to go and soooo Costumer friendly..

are u freaking kidding me?
wasnt this a Enthusiast PC Forum the last time i checked...?
Last time I checked, you're still playing a game on a PC. Also, Epic is a service not a platform as Steam is a Service and as UWP is a service. You can buy a game on Epic and still play it years later on a different PC without having to buy it again or wait for compatibility usually.

It's funny that people complained that Steam is holding the PC market and they have no real competition, to complaining about Epic which is possible to rival Steam.

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#5652580 Posted on: 03/21/2019 02:56 PM

i dont get why people find this good at all?!?!?!
its the exclusive Platform wars brought from consoles to PC..

Way to go and soooo Costumer friendly..

are u freaking kidding me?
wasn't this a Enthusiast PC Forum the last time i checked...?

No need to try offend fellow forum users if someone has a different opinion then you.

PC is the open platform, which means everyone can release games and sign exclusivity deals. It also happens a lot more then on PC then you think. You wont see valve titles on any other client. they all are exclusive to steam. That seems to be OK for many , don't know why though if exclusivity is such a big deal. then we have stardock, origin, ubisoft, gamersgate, windows store and more that all have their exclusive titles

Enthusiast PC's have nothing to do with how games are sold. It is more a mindset how someone wants their games distributed rather.

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#5652595 Posted on: 03/21/2019 03:23 PM

Features primarily, security is another concern and then there's privacy which the recent data sniffing in Steam is not all that good for Epic's case.
Pricing is also out if Epic is restricting things like (Licensed.) resellers such as Greenman Gaming and others, Linux is out entirely and Mac well maybe later.

Regional discount I think is improving but can still get better, their way of handling and acquiring these deals is also not something I like especially when in Metro and Outer Worlds case here the developers were notified just as the announcement came up and had no idea before that this was happening because the publisher took the decision on their own.

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