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Is Borderlands 3 Epic Games Store Exclusive? Randy Pitchford Explains The Situation

Borderlands 3 was announced with a trailer recently at PAX East. There is no confirmed release date for the game aside from some speculation after a tweet by the official social media account that also showed the logo for Epic Games Store.

PapaBop1883d ago (Edited 1883d ago )

"To me, exclusives are fine when they come w/ advantages and when they are short – say, six months :) "

Six months is a very long time in the gaming world by then, people have moved on especially with it's September release date. And lets be honest, from a consumer perspective, it really doesn't come with any advantages limited it to a single store. It must suck for him and Gearbox though if it really was 2K games that made the decision.

rdgneoz31883d ago

For the consumer, it's pointless. For the devs/publisher, they're making more money as Epic wants less of a cut that Steam does.

PapaBop1883d ago (Edited 1883d ago )

That's true, I hope Valve change in this respect especially when you see just how big of a cut they take and how that must effect indie developers but ultimately, they're not making more money when people are boycotting the store.

Srhalo1883d ago

@PapaBop

Steam sale isn't free.

Epic is giving the money to the devs Steam is giving the money to the consumer.

KyRo1883d ago

Srhalo and have you seen how poor steam sales have been recently?

opc1883d ago

valve doesn't set the prices on steam. Publishers do that. If sale prices have been lame lately that's because the publishers aren't lowering them.

NarooN1883d ago

@Srhalo

It's the publishers who decide to put their games on sale, as well as what the prices/discounts will be.

Also Steam is far from the only digital storefront to offer crazy sales, GoG does it, Uplay does it, Origin does it...

GhostTurtle1883d ago

Making more money at the cost of a shit ton of sales....makes sense

Vegamyster1883d ago

If it was that simple every publisher/dev would move to Epic without having to be paid for that exclusivity. They're only making more money if they're selling it at full price (Epic said they want cheaper prices) & assuming they'd sell as many copies which is doubtful at this point.

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dumahim1883d ago

Six months is a long time if you have been playing it that long. If someone wants to hold out and wait for an exclusivity deal to expire, they're not moving on. Especially since DLC will be fresh about that time.

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Sono4211882d ago

Can someone explain to me why the Epic store is oh so bad?

dumahim1882d ago

@Sono421
Other than security issues, a long list of features others have that I really don't care about. Achievements, forums, reviews, etc. I guess I do care a bit about no offline play and no modding.

MadLad1883d ago

So Borderlands 3 isn't being worked on by half a dozen shadow developers .... right?

DillyDilly1883d ago

This game will be on peoples Back Logs

Rachel_Alucard1883d ago

Thats most of 2020 at this point

harmny1883d ago

You can talk shit about epic all you want. But they made the engine your favourite games run on.

No epic = no borderlands, no Batman, no mortal Kombat, no sea of thieves, no days gone, no pubg, no hellblade, no fable, no crackdown, no Darksiders, no Injustice, no kingdom hearts, no life is strange, no octopath traveler, no psychonauts, no shenmue, no soulcalibur, no street fighter, no Tropico, no XCOM, no ark, no outer worlds.

I hope they change their ToS and make their engine exclusive to their store. It would be fun watching all the whiny babies cry

dumahim1883d ago

Right. Because they wouldn't have just used a different engine to make their games.

porkChop1883d ago

They absolutely could use a different engine. However, engines play a very large role in what devs are able to achieve in their projects. Each engine has different capabilities, and different strengths. It's debatable whether the games would have been the same had they used a different engine.

porkChop1883d ago

"I hope they change their ToS and make their engine exclusive to their store. It would be fun watching all the whiny babies cry"

I know you're probably joking, but that would be taking things too far. I don't personally mind exclusives if it benefits the devs and puts more money in their pockets. But making engines exclusive is just dumb.

opc1883d ago

I don't have any sort of loyalty to any brand. To me Epic and Valve are just companies that offer services. Personally I like Origin, and GoG because they've all been improving over the past several years.

It's just at the moment, Valve makes my favorite controller, and offers the most customization features for every other controller, they offer in-home streaming, and have been very careful with my account information for many years. To me these things are important, and Epic just doesn't offer any of them.

If they can start offering these things down the road and revamp their security and prove that it's secure for several years... I'll give them a fair chance. I really would like to see competition between services and not competition between bank accounts.

Until that happens it just doesn't make sense for me to risk my personal information to buy games that force me to use a controller I don't want to use, while not allowing me to customize any of the inputs or stream to a different TV in my house.

Casepb1883d ago

Disappointing if true. But hey look on the bright side. Steam is getting Doom Eternal, Rage 2, and The Master Chief Collection, they will be my big 2019 FPS games.

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Summer Game Fest 2024 and games conference schedule: All conference dates, times and streams

A schedule for all of the currently announced game conferences in June 2024, including the Summer Game Fest 2024 date and times.

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Lightning7711h ago

For the first time in a long time I have a hard time feeling excited for these events. Maybe it's because of all these massive lay offs and closures there hasn't exactly been good news since the start of the year.

Maybe come next week I'll get a little more excited but I dunno I just can't get too excited right now

thorstein9h ago

Maybe it will be an indie showcase.

Cacabunga4h ago

Cancelling e3 and introducing some ridiculous events..
Times have changed.. to the worse

Lightning773h ago(Edited 3h ago)

Back then it was very exciting, great looking trailers, on stage live gameplay where yes things can and have went wrong but that's how we knew it was a real games being played instead of curated footage extra doctored up that didn't even represent the actual game half the time. Games would release 6 months to a year max not 3 years later.

I miss past E3's even the goofiness like Giant enemy crab or Riiiidge Raceeer. Xbox and Kinect glitching Nintendo's craziness. Again it was real, these days there so protective, clean, doctored sets, where nothing can absolutely go wrong. Too strict and professional with heavy PR babble with buzzwords that mean nothing. Being professional is not bad but when it's fake and corporate heavy where you're made to buy into the words rather than the game, that's how you know it's not real.

Now SFG is just sizzle reeling all the games at once. Plus past SGF events haven't been that great either. Maybe that's not Geoffs fault but the pubs and devs are simply never ready to show anything and have to wait. This gen we've been waiting and waiting for these games.

Plus lay offs as I Mentioned. I dunno Geoff needs to do what made E3 great back then, get funding support and do live stage gameplay he has the support and so why not? Pubs and devs need to do their own thing at the event again. No more doctored bull crap with PR diarrhea trying to sell the game show us with a controller in your hand instead of making empty promises.

Rant over.

Cacabunga2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

Lightning

I will never forget the pre-e3 one year where Kojima was teasing MGS Rising.. and Peace Walker.

Such an incredible period where studios enjoyed what they were doing and teasing their work weeks before the event.

Nowadays is half baked games, cross gen titles, useless mid gen upgrades. There is no hype anymore.
Last great show I remember is the PS EXPERIENCE maybe 3 or 4 years ago in December

gleepot2h ago

Maybe it's because Keighley sucks and never puts on good showcases.

Lightning771h ago

They aren't geoffs games he's not makin it. Though you're half right, he has the stage and events and controls the pace, how the games are shown and presented. If I was him I would have devs have real gameplay with a stage like how E3 used to be.

No more of this curated pre done footage that we've had in the past 4 years.

Actually before that they've been doing that format for awhile. Cyber Punk being the biggest culprit of that format because you can easily deceive and lie to ppl.

Yeah Geoff is half to blame

isarai6h ago

Is it just me or is there little to no buzz or marketing leading up to this compared to previous SGF?

monkey6022h ago

Because they've been consistently boring for the last couple of years. Hard to get worked up for it now

bRuud833h ago

Where is Sony? Still no news about the next Playstation showcase.

VR23h ago

It'll be June sometimes no doubt, I'm guessing the Saturday 10th the day after Xbox showcase or maybe sometime the following week

Lightning7755m ago

Hopefully early next week at this point they are signed to SGF so they'll be there.

I also said in another post it's rumored to be a State Of Play now. The only AAA's I can see being announced now is Ghost 2 and Bends New game.

I can't see Santa Monica's New IP or ND New IP being announced. I can see GG being there announcing leggo Horizon, Zero Dawn remake or remaster, maybe the LS horizon game.

Skuletor21m ago

After the way they rudely hurried people off the stage at The Game Awards, I won't bother watching any of the streams for this. I'll just checkout out a few game trailers on Youtube after they're uploaded there.

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Relientk771d 18h ago

So they're adding Skull and Bones to their service? That doesn't seem exciting at all lol.

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