Some interesting industry news for you here. Epic Games have announced a change to the revenue model of the Epic Games Store, as they try to pull in more developers and more gamers to actually purchase things.

I mean that’s good for developers I suppose but I’m still not going to be buying from Epic.

  • oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    253·
    2 days ago

    Okay so now Epic is getting 0% on 0 sales rather than 12% on zero sales.

    Just challenge Steam with better buyer protections and you will actually make proper check out your store. Cause we know after years of your service trying to attract AAA publishers that no Steam users swapped over.

  • middlemanSI@lemmy.worldEnglish
    243·
    2 days ago

    Epis is very very bad experience. They are trying too hard to sell, pushing things in your face all the time while there is no option to start the launcher in your library - has to be ads. This library also contains a bunch of games you don’t own with the link “get”, which you have to “uninstall”. After playing a game for 65h, recently epic decided “you don’t own this game” when starting it from a desktop shortcut, but then changes it’s mind once you are in the library. This game also started kicking me out “by anticheat” at the same time (EASYAntiCheat), I think this is connected to epic weird message. Anyway I tried liking epic but it’s a bit too shit. I hope developers don’t choose to limit themselves and us to fucking epic.

  • boreengreen@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    If they would do the steam sale prices 100% of the time, I bet people would buy their games over there.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    523·
    2 days ago

    Well it would be great if Steam (allegedly) didn’t pressure devs to force price parity with their store. In other words, selling at game at 30% less than Steam on some other storefront could (allegedly) get one delisted. It’s blatantly anticompetitive/anticonsumer and should be illegal.

    https://newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/does-steam-price-fix-and-does-that

    It would be like Amazon threatening to pull a brand from their store if it was cheaper somewhere else.

    Prefer Steam? Totally fine. But personally I would take a 30% discount for the extra hassle, barring some game-specific benefit.

    • rdri@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      2 days ago

      Price parity is pro consumer. This is what consumer cares about. What they shouldn’t care about is developers’ revenue split because it doesn’t affect them.

      No one would be selling on Epic for a lower “discount-like” price, even if it would be allowed. This notion was never about “hey dev, get your users a cheaper price”, it was always about “hey dev, get yourself more revenue if you choose our platform” (a lie too though since Epic is simply not a good selling platform). Else, you would have seen cheaper games amongst those Epic exclusives that never hit other stores.

        • rdri@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          2 days ago

          When I buy something, I don’t want to be stressed about whether or not it is available elsewhere cheaper. The only case where I think price parity is meaningless is worldwide, but that’s only because regional pricing should be a thing, so that’s a different matter.

            • rdri@lemmy.worldEnglish
              22·
              2 days ago

              I’m pro competition. However a lot of people are deceived into thinking Epic is a competitor to Valve. They do not deliver similar levels of value and service.

              Price competition is silly in digital marketplace, where you know any product can go on sale randomly at a very high discount. Thinking “I’ll buy it here now because it’s 30% cheaper, cool” sounds like a recipe for selling your loyalty, for cheap. Though in reality it would never really be 30%, so you’re aiming to sell yourself even cheaper.