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Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable (kotaku.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] Zorque@kbin.social 92 points 1 year ago

They literally pay for exclusivity. It's weird that people seem to selectively ignore that every time someone brings up their desire to get free games from them.

[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 1 year ago

This is the main reason why I never made an account, despite the free games.

[-] Maestro@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Epic still has to pay the developers even if they give away the game for free. I'm happy to help bleed Epic dry by taking their free games. But I will never ever spend a single cent on their platform.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same If I buy a game it will be either directly from the maker or Steam. Epic strictly for the free games.

[-] highsight@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, I get why people hate this, but some games would literally not exist if not for that exclusivity funding. For example, the newly released Alan Wake 2 is completely funded by Epic. I'd say at that point, the exclusivity is fair game.

[-] micka190@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

After Control's success, I'd imagine AW2 still would've been made even without Epic's exclusivity/publishing deal. If anything, Control's timed EGS exclusivity hurt their numbers until they eventually hit Steam.

[-] cottonmon@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Epic funding games development was only a recent thing. For the most part, they were buying exclusivity for games that were already set to be released or were already in active development. The other reason why this was hated was because they bought exclusivity for games that were crowd-funded back when the store was newly opened.