Borderlands 3 PC is releasing exclusively on the Epic Store in September

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BasilZero said:

Darwinianevolution said:
This makes me wonder what's going to happen a year from now. I doubt they will keep getting exclusives at this rate, it's not finantially viable. When all of the games come back to Steam, will the Epic Store have enough moment to survive, or will just be left alone when the exclusives are not a draw anymore?

Its not gonna be any more different than the existence of Origin, Uplay, GOG, etc having their own exclusives.

I mean there's probably gonna be one or two exclusives that wont be anywhere else (Fortnite).

If anything, it'll probably be like how the console race is like (Sony, MS and Nintendo in that order) but with Steam having be far ahead due to the advantages.



The most interesting part will be how sales will be like when the games actually come out on Steam next year.

2020 is gonna be a pretty huge year for Steam lol.

Yes, but that's the thing. The only real exclusive Epic has is Fortnite, that's the thing driving the most users to the store. The exclusive hunt Epic is doing is not only temporary, it's costing them a lot of money, and they are probably operating with relatively low profit margains. Taking games like The Outer Worlds and Borderlands 3 as exclusives cannot have been cheap. So by the time they decide this is not worth doing anymore, they must have something in its place, otherwise they are going to be left in the dust. Not to mention all of the problems the store itself has (lack of features, inferior return policies, spyware, Tencent as Epic's shadowy overlord...).