| Captain_Yuri said: Money is money so I doubt that's gonna happen sadly. On the bright side, lets say Persona 5 does happen and it's on EGS for idk, a year? 6 months? 3 months? Since the number of exclusivity months seems to be going down. I'd rather have the game be on PC and then wait until it's no longer EGS exclusive and buy it on steam than not have the option. It's not ideal for sure but it is better than the alternative of not having it at all. I don't like EGS's exclusivity tactics at all hence I haven't bought a single game in that store but it means I can get games on steam eventually, better than nothing... Plus when you look at it, it could be a similar situation like those David Cage games being first on EGS but then other Sony published games after like Death Stranding and Horizon being on Steam since I am assuming EGS couldn't pay those off. Could be similar situation with Altus since publishers do ask for more money with bigger IPs. |
I don't like their tactics either, and it's had me flat out ignoring those games, even when they do come to Steam. I don't want to set a terrible precedent, where devs go "oh go EGS and get a big sack of cash, then sell on Steam later for a ramped up price?, hell yeah let's do this from now on!", because then that'll just mean I'll get dicked over and over again, so I'd rather just buy other games from other devs.
We've already seen that precedent being set by Coffee Stain, with their second EGS exclusivity deal and now Remedy, and we don't even know how the Remedy publishing deal will go down with other storefronts.
I just wish devs would be smart enough to see that reaching all the storefronts and all the users can yield better results, than just strong arming and berating users to go to just one storefront.
I think EG is just poaching for games they think will grant them lightning in a bottle style popularity, like when MS bought Minecraft, after they saw how well that did, and well, Rocket League's done wonders itself, hence why EG bought them up. It's not really about us in the end, but more about what makes the biggest noise, has the shiniest bling, to gather people around them. It's why I hardly take any publisher PR to heard, because I know it's always about earning the biggest Activision style stacks of dosh.
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