Epic paid them a bunch of money for the exclusivity. Money they needed to produce the game. Remedy needs the money upfront. And Epic takes less of a cut than Steam.
Profit until the sales dry up. If potential players haven’t bought the game at that point because of platform-related reasons, they won’t likely be convinced otherwise.
Once that happens, release the title on all other platforms.
Profit more.
Sony’s had great success when they started bringing first-party titles to PC. Square is feeling the squeeze after the disappointing sales of the FFVII remakes. DARQ’s developer rejected third-party exclusivity and was met with praise and sales exceeding expectations.
The fact is, some people will never consider buying on EGS. Whether their reasons are legitimate or not is irrelevant. It is only by the choice of one man overgrown man-child that both Epic and Remedy are kept from greater sales and greater profits.
If I huff enough copium, I can sometimes convince myself that they’re just stupid.
Unfortunately, the mandatory PSN requirement probably yields them more profit (through some means) than direct sales would from the non-PSN regions.
Another possibility is something I heard mentioned regarding Nvidia: Japanese and Far-Eastern businesses often favor control over maximized profits, and mandatory PSN might be a way of exercising this control. Just a hypothesis though.
If they want to exercise more control over the gamers who buy their games, they could let more countries sign up for the PSN. At the very least all of the countries in the EU should be able to make an account.
I still have Helldivers 2 in my steam account even though I can’t even look at the steam store for it.
Sweeney is the man-child, unequivocally. He’s done things simply to oppose what Valve does, like making the EGS a safe haven for AI and blockchain shovelware games, outright rejecting Linux support for Fortnite (even though there is no technological barrier), and removing Rocket League from Steam. (not an exhaustive list, just to illustrate)
I wouldn’t say a single bad thing about Sam Lake. He is cursed with limitless creativity in a hostile ecosystem.
It sounds like Tim Sweeney is making decisions motivated by money, not necessarily out of childishness. I think there’s a difference. I probably agree that they’re shitty decisions for consumers, but it’s pretty clear what his motives are.
Also, Sam Lake is not the CEO of Remedy. I had to go look it up. It’s someone named Tero Virtala who I’ve never heard of.
“epic takes less of a cut” yeah but they’re getting 0 right now because they don’t get any money at all from it until the money upfront is earned back by epic which at this rate they’re not going to so while remedy got the money to make the game I don’t think they’ll ever see another penny for it
Epic paid them a bunch of money for the exclusivity. Money they needed to produce the game. Remedy needs the money upfront. And Epic takes less of a cut than Steam.
I feel like you’re mad at the wrong people?
The formula goes like this:
Sony’s had great success when they started bringing first-party titles to PC. Square is feeling the squeeze after the disappointing sales of the FFVII remakes. DARQ’s developer rejected third-party exclusivity and was met with praise and sales exceeding expectations.
The fact is, some people will never consider buying on EGS. Whether their reasons are legitimate or not is irrelevant. It is only by the choice of one
manovergrown man-child that both Epic and Remedy are kept from greater sales and greater profits.Sony releasing games on PC yet region locking them to countries with PSN access is beyond absurd.
It’s almost like they hate money.
If I huff enough copium, I can sometimes convince myself that they’re just stupid.
Unfortunately, the mandatory PSN requirement probably yields them more profit (through some means) than direct sales would from the non-PSN regions.
Another possibility is something I heard mentioned regarding Nvidia: Japanese and Far-Eastern businesses often favor control over maximized profits, and mandatory PSN might be a way of exercising this control. Just a hypothesis though.
If they want to exercise more control over the gamers who buy their games, they could let more countries sign up for the PSN. At the very least all of the countries in the EU should be able to make an account.
I still have Helldivers 2 in my steam account even though I can’t even look at the steam store for it.
Soooo, they walked it back. https://lemmy.world/post/24882107
That’s pretty good, I hope they actually keep to this promise though.
Egs does not work on linux. It is just not an option.
We don’t know what their contract says, but if the studio head is saying “never”, then presumably that’s what the contract says.
Who’s the man-child here? Tim Sweeney? The CEO of Remedy?
I haven’t been keeping up with the weird Gamer tantrum about Epic so I’m not up on who you guys are mad at. Or why.
Sweeney is the man-child, unequivocally. He’s done things simply to oppose what Valve does, like making the EGS a safe haven for AI and blockchain shovelware games, outright rejecting Linux support for Fortnite (even though there is no technological barrier), and removing Rocket League from Steam. (not an exhaustive list, just to illustrate)
I wouldn’t say a single bad thing about Sam Lake. He is cursed with limitless creativity in a hostile ecosystem.
It sounds like Tim Sweeney is making decisions motivated by money, not necessarily out of childishness. I think there’s a difference. I probably agree that they’re shitty decisions for consumers, but it’s pretty clear what his motives are.
Also, Sam Lake is not the CEO of Remedy. I had to go look it up. It’s someone named Tero Virtala who I’ve never heard of.
“epic takes less of a cut” yeah but they’re getting 0 right now because they don’t get any money at all from it until the money upfront is earned back by epic which at this rate they’re not going to so while remedy got the money to make the game I don’t think they’ll ever see another penny for it