To make things clear: Tim can talk about wanting cross-play and interoperability all day. In the end, it's all to make up for the lackluster EGS.
Fact is that @GOGcom is the only company genuinely working to bring platforms together, and Epic's exclusivity actively hurts GOG.
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Or, you know, you could build a platform that actually competes with GOG and Valve based on it's own value and features, instead of relying on exclusive games as a crutch to prop up a shell. No shopping cart yet? Seriously? It's clear where the resources are going.pic.twitter.com/UIsm7d15Ti
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This has been discussed endlessly. NOTHING will change if people have library lockin on Steam, no amount of feature parity will make people want to buy on Epic if they already have an established library on Steam, except if exclusive games they want to play are on Epic.
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And when you have forced to the customers to your store, what are you going to offer them to keep them wanting to use it? GOG is DRM free, the XBOX app has Gamepass. What does EGS offer to make customers want to use it, rather then just have to?
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Right now: free games, major exclusives, Epic funded sales, Fortnite. Over time, more features.
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with the amount of money you've spent on making exclusivity deals, why not fund/make new exclusive games for yourself instead of seeking third parties?
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We’re helping fund new games from many developers, most not yet announced. The first year’s store announcements were mainly existing games because they were the ones that were coming soon, whereas funding new games takes longer.
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So we won’t do that. But if you have any other thoughts on how Epic can better foster a healthy multi-store PC ecosystem, we’d love to hear them.
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My idea: fund NEW games / studios instead of buying rights to already (almost) finished projects (leaving Steam for EGS). People have NO issues (!) with exclusives that wouldn't otherwise exist and platform owner's own games (Fortnite on EGS, Half-Life on Steam, Uncharted on PS4)
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You also have no chance of changing the 30% fee status quo if you don't intend to launch your own major console platform. So... When is that happening? (By the way, I *really* don't want you to do so, going by the lackluster platform & UX skills on display. Sorry!)
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C’mon, we’re the guys who can’t even figure out shopping carts. If we tried to make hardware it would probably explode or, at the very least, produce a lot of sparks and fizzle sounds.
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