The Outer Worlds goes Epic Games Store-exclusive (also Windows Store)

[just]

could be worse, it could be google std exclusive

 

[Nano]

Newsflash, people: whether it's Epic, Microsoft, or Steam, all the clients have spyware in them. Proprietary software and spyware practically go hand-in-hand these days.

 

[Vault Dweller]

You don't say. Now if you were to guess, what % of the gaming market Epic has?

https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-says-m...pic-store-than-metro-last-light-did-on-steam/

If they say so it must be true, right? I mean who's ever heard of ads making exaggerated claims?

 

[Metro]

Newsflash, people: whether it's Epic, Microsoft, or Steam, all the clients have spyware in them. Proprietary software and spyware practically go hand-in-hand these days.

Don't forget GOG downloader!!!

 

[Infinitron]

Newsflash, people: whether it's Epic, Microsoft, or Steam, all the clients have spyware in them. Proprietary software and spyware practically go hand-in-hand these days.

The whole "spyware" thing is obviously a manufactured rationalization by people who are miffed about their cheese being moved. "It's not just annoying, it's evil!" Zzzzzz.

 

[sullynathan]

Turning them off in a game that is made to played with them on isn't really an option. You're just blindly running around.

Nah, RDR2 gives you quest descriptions and a full map and an entire recap of every spoken dialogue in the game.

 

[TT1]

Obsidian should cover Epic money and offer a better deal to Take 2, just to avoid this. They have the most to lose on this.

How can a company fuck up so badly as Obsidian? They had the momentum to screw Bethesda, create a new beloved franchise and just let it go. Its always a lot of bad luck, timing, bad decisions... They always have something wrong happening when everything seems right.

 

[Infinitron]

Allegedly an Obsidian developer on some Discord channel:

 

[Jenkem]

IHaveHugeNick can you confirm this?

 

[Ismaul]

Can't help but feel the hypocrisy of people who hate epic store but are OK with steam games loaded up with Denuvo

Exclusives on Epic are a very good reason to prefer Steam. And some Steam releases are DRM-free.

But DRM-free games are also a very good reason to prefer GOG over Steam.

No hypocrisy there.

 

[Steamboat Willie]

Give me a fucking .msi to install it with and I will gleefully tell all of these storefronts to fuck off.

 

[hajro]

Hope codex or cpy are fast with this one.

 

[Yosharian]

The only thing more retarded than this Epic Store exclusive are the idiots defending it by saying LUL STEAM MONOPOLY.

Nobody's saying that the game can't also launch on the Epic Store you stupid fucks. It's exclusivity that is disliked.

Obviously it goes without saying that, in the long run, this is just going to be a good thing. Epic Store suckers can beta-test the game for a year for us, while we play other games. I mean shit, I have an insane backlog right now, let alone in 2020.

 

[Black]

Like a year of beta testing will help an Obsidian game.

 

[Jenkem]

somewhere Chris Avellone is smiling

 

[cvv]

The only thing more retarded than this Epic Store exclusive are the idiots defending it by saying LUL STEAM MONOPOLY.

Nobody's saying that the game can't also launch on the Epic Store you stupid fucks. It's exclusivity that is disliked.

Yeah! I say let Epic compete against a leviathan with 15 years of market dominance under his belt and 70 million users locked into the ecosystem without exclusive deals and see how good they are!

 

[Roguey]

somewhere Chris Avellone is smiling

Looking forward to tomorrow when Paradox drives another stake into the heart of Obsidian.

Yeah! I say let Epic compete against a leviathan with 15 years of market dominance under his belt and 70 million users locked into the ecosystem without exclusive deals and see how good they are!

Bigbrained idea: Trying to get people to your store by providing a better experience for users.
Smallbrained idea: Literally say "we don't care about the user experience, the publishers will make us a success" and throw a lot of money around for exclusives while providing an even worse experience for users.

 

[Yosharian]

The only thing more retarded than this Epic Store exclusive are the idiots defending it by saying LUL STEAM MONOPOLY.

Nobody's saying that the game can't also launch on the Epic Store you stupid fucks. It's exclusivity that is disliked.

Yeah! I say let Epic compete against a leviathan with 15 years of market dominance under his belt and 70 million users locked into the ecosystem without exclusive deals and see how good they are!

If they don't bring anything more interesting than exclusivity deals, they're not much of a competitor are they?

Steam has 15 years of market dominance because they are consumer-focused. Epic is just bringing boatloads of cash and stealing games from the market with it. The central positive idea behind market competition is, you build a better product, and force your competitors to also build better products, thus the consumer wins, because they get access to better products. This runs contrary to what Epic is doing, which is just throwing money at developers and having a store front that is objectively inferior to Steam.

But whatever, clearly you have a hate-boner for Steam, and you're not too smart considering your main argument consists of pressing the Retarded button on posts you disagree with.

 

[jf8350143]

I seriously doubt Obisidian can even get extra money from this deal. Take 2 will have all of them.

 

[Turtle-Zone 3000]

 

[Fairfax]

somewhere Chris Avellone is smiling

This doesn't hurt the owners, so probably not. He'd likely say that he feels bad for the devs, who had nothing to do with the decision. He's also working with the same publisher through Ken Levine's studio, and it's possible the same thing will happen to that game.

Looking forward to tomorrow when Paradox drives another stake into the heart of Obsidian.

 

[Quillon]

I seriously doubt Obisidian can even get extra money from this deal. Take 2 will have all of them.

As long as MS' is paying their salaries what does it matter what Obsidian gets from...any deal anymore? If anything; MS is paid, if anything more; some people in the studio get bonuses etc.

 

[Delterius]

It took EA what 20 years to fail to bury BioWare, Obsidian is basically set for life. Nobody even cares anymore.

 

[RapineDel]

Guess Private Division went for this because they know it's just a one off game with no chance of building a franchise etc. given Obsidian are with Microsoft now. Quick money for them and an easy way for them to cut their losses.

As awful as this is, whether we torrent this or not won't mean much to Obsidian, they'll likely never touch this universe again now that they're with Microsoft and there's no way any future games will be on Epic so they'll ride out the bad word of mouth and it'll be forgotten in a few years.

The same cannot be said for other developers, seeing games like Phoenix Point and Control on Epic is a bit of a laugh because I'm not sure where they think they're going next? The dude behind Phoenix Point talks about it keeping their studio going for years, but what does he think is going to happen with his next game? Epic won't be doing this at that point and they won't want to shell out again for a game that likely sells 5,000 copies on their store.

These developers have burnt their PC audience and most of the loyal fans will be long gone, unless they release something amazing, they aren't coming back and keeping their studio going for a couple of years so their next mediocre offering can completely flop is a good laugh. They can all forget about Kickstarter, pitching to publishes with their niche game and having to explain why everyone online is talking about boycotting their next game so it's short term gain for long term failure.

Good riddance to the Epic store in the future and good riddance to the developers who've gone down this road. I know some will say "but but it was the publishers decision don't punish the devs!" but it doesn't matter. Exclusivity to shit like Itunes killed the music industry, deep down people want convenience when they buy something, they don't care about supporting anyone and they'll either head to Pirate Bay or just buy it on sale when it's on Steam. If they think anyone is going to buy it at full price on Steam when it releases they're deluded. No one buys a 12 month old game for full price, people will be waiting for 75% off.

 

[HoboForEternity]

time to meet a certain girl about a game