Epic buys out Psyonix devs, set to bar game from Steam

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vivster said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Storefront exclusives are not the same as platform exclusives.

Nobody bats an eye if the Witcher series would be locked to GOG for instance, as it's from the same developer and thus only fair they keep the spoils. Same if Ubisoft titles would only be sold on Uplay anymore or EA only on Origin. Or Nintendo asking you to buy their console to buy their games.

But what irritates people is the fact that Epic is buying exclusive publishing rights on games they don't own and didn't develop themselves.

It's also highly ironic, as Rocket league was on the forefront of Sony's crossplay debacle, and is, with Fortnite, the only game that Sony allows crossplay with other consoles. Now imagine if Epic now would lock out the Steam players...

But Rocket League is by all intents and purposes Epic's game now. So it should be fair if they limit it to their store? They are literally paying the game's development right now.

True, but cutting off all those who ain't having it on EGS would be a dick move. Microsoft handled that a lot better after they bought Minecraft. Imagine it being locked to Windows store and Xbox only

I remember the outcry here about the Wii U games on the Switch being forcing the players to buy a game twice, and yet I haven't seen this come up here. Unless you can simply copy your serial number, that's exactly what it amounts to.