BasilZero said:
Kerotan said:
There's two things they can do that makes sense. Drop that cut and start developing more games again like they used. Huge ips that are in need of sequel but they'd rather not bother.
There was a time when many pc gamers including on this site, said they'd never touch uPlay. Steam or no buy. But years later most have caved in and buy from uPlay. Epic could do the exact same. There will always be a few that are too stubborn and will never enjoy the games but their aim is to win over the masses not absolutely every body.
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They already dropped the cut somewhat, but the cut doesnt matter in the end since moneyhatting a large sum of money prevails over any cut. Once again if the cut mattered, then Discord and itch.io would be getting games left and right. Epic's pretty much doing what Sony and MS has been doing for years on the console space.
Also Valve developing games wont entice devs/pubs to release games on Steam unless what you posted was a joke post l0l
People didnt buy games from Uplay until Uplay was pressured into adopting Steam like qualities - i.e. Having sales, releasing keys on third party sites - and despite that, people still bought them on Steam over Uplay.
Every PC game released between Steam and Uplay- there were more being sold on Steam. If they released Ubisoft games across Uplay, EGS and Steam - the numbers would be like
Steam > Uplay >>>>EGS.
Epic can only moneyhat to get an advantage but its a double edged sword since games arent just being released on their store unlike Steam.
Edit: I think EGS if it is successful in any way, will end up like MS is like in the console space compared to Steam which is like Playstation and GOG like Nintendo.
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The difference with steam is games sell a lot on there so cutting their share from 30% to 15/10% is huge in terms of revenue big games would be pulling in. If STEAM match epic for rev share or get close then they'd have to spend more money to win devs over. Right now steam are sitting back and making Epic's job easier to compete.
