How'd you feel if the largest & best store on PC started paying for exclusivity? Would you consider that 'fair competition'?
-
-
Replying to @HaidarAnsari_ @haidarans and
Steam’s the largest PC store and already has PC exclusives such as DOTA2, Counterstrike, and Portal. Valve has every right to make deals with developers and publishers to secure more exclusives, just as Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and Epic Games do!
133 replies 5 retweets 35 likes -
Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @haidarans and
I’d like to challenge critics to state what moral principle you feel is at stake. If it’s okay for one company to avoid the 30% Valve tax by selling exclusively through their own store, why is it wrong for multiple companies to work together to achieve the same goals?
22 replies 1 retweet 26 likes -
Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @haidarans and
Is escaping the 30% Steam tax a privilege reserved only for games made by powerful corporations? What moral principle prohibits smaller developers and publishers from making deals to get funding and lower 12% store fees, or prohibits Epic from offering them?
19 replies 2 retweets 28 likes -
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
Replying to @GV_Delchev @haidarans and
The Kickstarter situation is tricky because, as best as we understand Valve policy, the only way the developers can make Steam keys available to backers is if they offer their game for sale publicly to everyone on Steam with the store taking 30%.
10 replies 1 retweet 11 likes -
Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @GV_Delchev and
You are lying: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys … The only fact here it's you DON'T want provide Steam keys to people who paid for them 4 years ago before your store even existed.
1 reply 1 retweet 43 likes -
Replying to @NotTooHardcore @GV_Delchev and
I realize that Valve’s web page says that, however that doesn’t seem to accurately reflect current policy.
12 replies 0 retweets 6 likes -
Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @NotTooHardcore and
If (and this is a big if) they don't allow you to generate keys until the game actually launches on Steam, why not just let the backers choose between a EGS key at launch date OR a Steam key a year later, when the game is already being publicly sold on Steam?
3 replies 0 retweets 25 likes -
Because that would allow backers to escape Epic by freeing the rewards they are owed from the hostage situation of only being delivered by Epic keys, and Timmy doesn't like that. Why do you think he's trying so hard to make it seem like giving Steam keys NOW is the only option?
1 reply 1 retweet 41 likes
Epic would be 100% supportive of developers who wanted to do that.
-
Show additional replies, including those that may contain offensive content
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.