| Captain_Yuri said: I think their main objective is to make EGS be successful because Fortnite won't last forever. It's why they are continuing on with this train even though they are losing 100s of millions each year. They are hoping that PC gamers will choose them but clearly, they aren't so far. But I do think we kinda understand why some games are exclusive to EGS like those David Cage games from Sony while others are on Steam like Death Stranding, Horizon Zero Dawn and Days Gone. The publishers probably gives Epic Games a certain amount of sales they expect to happen. If Epic games thinks they can cover the costs, they will pay them to make it exclusive. If Epic games thinks they can't, then the game won't be exclusive. We will see what happens with FF but I think it will end up like Sony where the main big games will come to Steam. |
What I've gathered over the past 2 1/2 yrs, is that they don't seem to care that much for you or me, but they do seem to want more focus on the kids growing up alongside them, just like how we grew up alongside Steam, because most of us have been around when Steam started, but these Fortnite kids weren't, so they seem to be mostly indifferent to Steam and EGS showing up recently, so Epic's likely to just bank on them as they grow older and eventually come at us with a "gotcha" moment, when they do somehow print money from the store by then.
I'm guessing SE don't expect their future ports to sell all that well, hence the current two exclusive contracts. I'd say I'm sad that another Japanese company is thinking ever so damn low of the PC platform for it's sales, but this is SE, where they set stupidly high expectations, then throw a public hissy fit when things don't go their way.
I'd hope VIIR and XVI come to Steam, but I dunno, this kind of dickery just muddies up the water for me.
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
