That’s my sentiment. PC remains open and developers can reach customers however they like. There are many PC stores competing in many ways - competing on user base, competing on revenue sharing, competing on features, competing on games, competing on charity.
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You keep deflecting, like purposefully dodging the point. It's not that they HAVE to sell thru anywhere. It's that when you're buying exclusives away from anywhere else, you are making them HAVE to sell thru only you.
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In all of these cases, the developers and publishers have chosen to release exclusively with Epic because we made them a better deal than they felt they could get by releasing everywhere.
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It's all comes across to me as if it's just a mad grab to get as big of an install base as possible in as short of an amount of time possible. You aren't earning the store it's place in the marketplace, you are trying to buy its place.
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Exactly this is what is happening here. I applaud you Sir!
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That is a good point, i think steam should match your offerings to be honest
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The sad part here is you are targeting stores. But the publishers are getting away with highway robbery. obsidian made nothing off that exclusive deal. I know those guys. They are depressed over that deal. Publishers are taking way more than these stores and you don't even ccare
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Developers who create games have the right to choose how to publish them. Some deal directly with stores. Others sign publishing deals, and receive some combination of funding and royalties in exchange for giving the publisher the right to determine how to publish their game.
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The difference being made up by making the game more expensive in every country bar the u.s. on release day.
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If steam gave 99% to devs but paid a publisher to make an exclusive id be upset with them too. I want better splits for devs but not like this.
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And no one mentions Discord is 90/10. Where is the stampede
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