Epic Games Announces PC Building Simulator 2 As An Exclusive
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rl66
With the "crypto farm DLC" (( it's a joke lol ))
Joke appart the one save the life of a friend by making him understand how his computer work...
So the idea is really good despite useless for us.
Wrinkly
Epic, proving that torrent clients have a place in the world again.
Horus-Anhur
Screw Epic, for bring console exclusivity style warring to the PC.
Instead of making their store better than the competition, they just pay studios not to release games on other platforms.
Alessio1989
They are just doing what Valve or EA or any other store owner did in the last 2 decades, except GoG.
CalculuS
Steam never enforced their exclusivity. I remember in early 2010 there were a shitton of games you could play outside of steam and activate them through steam. Lots of free 2 play games aswell. Combat arms, runescape, maple story.
TheDeeGee
Half-Life is locked to Steam, there i said it Steam has exclusives.
TimmyP
Day hyuk or just get the game for free from them and go to gcw to get the crack, and never have to open the launcher to play?
Whats gcw? Its not for you.
Alessio1989
you have short memory or you were not old enough to remember what was steam in its first decade of life, at time there were no other stores, there was basically just steam and retailed games (on CD/DVD), and a lot of titles were forcing steam for game installation, account activation and files decrypt even if most of the copies sold were on the retail channel. Yes there was also Microsoft GFWL but nobody wanna remember that shit.
MonstroMart
That's not really his point though. Did Valve actually paid money for those games to be exclusive to Steam? EPIC sure is spending lot of money to promote their store ... instead of spending it to actually improve the store which is still let's just say very lacking in term of features. Still no way to organize your library ...
tsunami231
Main reason Epic and there store can go frack them selves one thing be developer and publisher to the game that exclusive to a "store" is another to start making exclusivity deal with game your not developer and publisher. i can stomach the first to point ,but not the later.
EA and MS has made good portion of there "games" exclusive to there store? possible ubisoft too, and EA was first to start this there quite few EA game i would like on PC will really it only Dragon Age games or well more specific the DA:I but i wont buy cause I wont use there launcher. and it will be cold day i hell before I actual use MS store to get any game. I really hope the next elderscrolls game isnt not locked to there store.
But EPIC Games is only one BUY exclusivity of PC game all over the place, and yet have never to claim everything they do is for benefit of end users.
Pryme
I dont care much if the game is locked to a specific store, I tolerate that. I dont like DRM so if possible I buy on GOG.
So for me is not about if the game is locked, but the attitude of the company, EPIC games promoted themselfs like the savior of PC Gaming and did the oposite, they are the most agressive on PC exclusives, and their platform is little better than trash (a good spyware). Game is free on EPIC? No problem but I will buy on other store or official reseller. Game is exclusive? No problem, I dont play it, there are other good games to play.
Alessio1989
who knows, Valve officially never disclaimed even the royalties they ask (though it's well known it varies depending on devs and publisher involved) nor Valve officially disclosed the agreement about the prices games must have or follow if those are on other digital delivery platforms too.
Most of people here don't remember how painful was for those without high data caps or fast connection or flat bill to decrypt the games that were sold as retailed but required the steam activation and day1 with huge patches, again Valve forced it for those using both digital and retailed formats and being on Steam). In the first decade of its life, steam was marked as the cancer of PC gaming (funny is, it was far less invasive than what it is today)
Epic Game Store just the last arrived and they are trying to recover for 18+ years of steam dominance and all other publishers stores. In fact, the royalties Epic asks to publishers and devs are far lower than what Valve asks for most games according to speculations (again, valve never made public such agreements).
The Laughing Ma
Can we agree that we are now at the point where no one really cares anymore? You don't like Epic and it's practices? Fine, don't buy the game! I mean you'll only have to wait a short period of time before you can hand a higher percentage of your cash over to Valve any way so really who honestly cares anymore? It's not like PC Build Simulator 2 is a triple AAA must have title so what's the issue? I know any chance to tell anyone and everyone how you don't like Epic and EGS and like I said no one cares any more least of all Epic themselves.
Clouseau
People like to forget or do not even know that Steam was created to cut the after-launch support costs for a game so that more money could go to development. How did that work out? That was their selling point. If that was so true, why charge such a high price for their services? They do not care anymore what their purpose was in the beginning. All this Steam is the way to go makes me puke. The service was morphed into something it was never intended to be. As it is now, Steam is just shy of a social media platform for "gamers."
Aura89
Where are the gog games that have been fixed/modified to work on newer systems on any other platform?
0blivious
The pearl clutching in these EPIC threads is always amusing to read.
MonstroMart
Almost as funny as people still pretending EGS is a great client because they hate Valve somehow.
AlmondMan
Are any of these clients really great? Or are they just a necessary evil that we have been made to use.
H83
All of them are necessary evils because we need them to play our games...
But i think we can agree that Valve fits the criteria, with plenty of features and support for gaming purposes.
GoG is also nice because the lack of DRM but i´m very disappointed but their lack of support for Linux, a missed opportunity for me.
WhiteLightning
Moderator
Yeah all clients really suck. They are just more ads to buy their games. Microsoft tried with their games section in windows, but publishers weren't to keep on that since that would not give a chance to boost sales.
I prefer GOG as well, but many games do not end up there somehow, so we are still stuck with the other launchers, no matter how old the game is.
