It's starting to feel like Epic is picking all the good players for dodgeball, and Valve is just standing there. But that's not quite true.
The store exclusivity drama is only going to heighten from here.
A schedule for all of the currently announced game conferences in June 2024, including the Summer Game Fest 2024 date and times.
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
Is it just me or is there little to no buzz or marketing leading up to this compared to previous SGF?
The VP of Marketing at Boosteroid revealed that the company is in talks with major publishers to secure exclusive games on the service.
So they're adding Skull and Bones to their service? That doesn't seem exciting at all lol.
"Following a great event in November of last year, DevGAMM Lisbon is coming back to the beautiful and sunny Cascais region to catch up with old friends, connect with game developers from around the world, hear from seasoned professionals, and have a great time all around." - DevGAMM.
"Exclusivity"--no; I still don't get it. I get that God of War is exclusive, because I have an Xbox and not a PS4. But my PC is wide open to all comers. Nothing is excluded from me there, regardless of who sells it to me.
I think it's a bad time for PC gaming. A year ago was a great time. Everything basically releases on PC now, Steam was looked at as the platform for PC outside specifics which was fine etc. Everything was simple and such. Then Discord and Epic opens stores and epics using all it's fortnite money to make a mess out of PC gaming. I only went to PC because of Steams ability to unify the PC space and make everything enjoyable under 1 umbrella. Epic thankfully hasn't grabbed a game I care for but they're doing the thing that made me avoid PC gaming all this time. Like Unreal and fortnite I wouldn't complain about. I don't complain about Black Ops 4, Destiny or Overwatch etc. Ubisoft allows buying of most games on Steam still, just connected to Uplay etc. That's all fine. But the moment it became a platform paying to take exclusives away like Rise of the Tomb Raider was. It's a problem. I think indies going to Epic makes sense and I wouldn't be mad at that. But games with initial intentions to release on Steam but change because of a timed exclusive money hat lol. That's a mess. Epics has shown the lack of care for anyone but themselves and are trying to mask it in the devs 12% vs 30% situation. Why? Because they're the same ppl who had the nerve to actually release Fortnite on Android through installing a unofficial apk because they didn't want to share profits with the platform holder. They're just selfish and greedy. It's the same ploy MS pulls with the crossplay, they're only willing to share games with Switch because Sony said no to the XBL request and that's the main competitor. The moment sony started, they stopped until they found out it isn't exactly as easy to get the okay as ppl hoped. Then they started with sharing games lol. Hell, MS probably isn't having the BS and why it's MCC is coming to steam lol. Because they could have been a MS store exclusive
“Top 10 anime betrayal..”
Wtf? I’ve never heard that expression before, hahaha
Why is it that they're pushing so hard for exclusivity. Why cant games release on both platforms? The problem is that Epic knows it's the far inferior store and to compensate they're just going to throw a lot of money at the big publishers and devs to buy exclusivity. So instead of actually building up their store to legitimately compete with steam they've opted to hold games hostage. Just make sure you never have a card on file in the Epic store.