The EPIC Games Store service has been getting hold of a good library of temporary exclusives – it will be released or already released Ashen, Hades, Journey, Super Meat Boy Forever, World War Z, The Walking Dead: The Final Season and so on. Recently general director Epic Tim Suini (TIM SweENEY) told on what conditions the company agrees with the developers about the exclusivity of their creations. Also boss Epic clarified other issues regarding the store.
About exclusives
In the comments on the topic on Reddit Suini told that Epic offers developers different financial support options – the company can take on marketing, invest directly in the development or guarantee income. In the latter case Epic vouching that the game will bring a certain revenue to the authors. If the real amount turns out to be less than the applied, then the service owners will fit the missing means to the creators.
About the importance of competition
Boss Epic understands that the launch of a new store gives players inconvenience. However, in his opinion, competition is necessary: when a monopoly is installed on the market, the authors of the content suffer – their share of profit begins to decline.
“When several stores compete among themselves, you get lower prices, developers – more profitable offers, and new content and innovation are additional investments, – said Suini. – I understand that for users this is another LONSSIA and if you have already installed Steam, you would prefer to use it. But if you want the games to become better in the future, please realize the benefits of this store [Epic Games Store]. Steam takes 30 % [revenue], and EPIC – 12 %. This is 18 % of the difference, and most developers have a profit much less than the same 18 %. It may depend on this whether the authors will go bankrupt or will be able to invest in a new game!"
On the transfer of data Tencent
The author of the topic on Reddit, in which the leader unsubscribed Epic, called the customer of the store with a spy program. According to him, in the conditions of using the Epic Games Store, it is indicated that Epic can transmit users of the parent company. The creator of the topic decided that Epic belongs to the Chinese Tencent, So, your personal information can get into the PRC. However Suini He denied these accusations.
"Epic not divided by users from Tencent or any other company, – assured the general director. – We do not share them, do not sell them and, unlike many other companies, do not provide access to them for advertising purposes. I am the founder and holder of the control package of shares Epic, And I will not let it happen ".
Suini explained that the parental company Epic – American branch Epic Games. When you purchase a product Epic, For example, in Europe, the seller is the local branch of the company. Hence the data transfer item – the regional office can send them to the main, American.
About the review system
In addition, the other day, one of Twitter’s visitors expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that Epic Games Store does not allow customers to leave reviews – there are no user reviews, no assessments, no forums in the service. According to the player, this means that the publishers are most important for the store, and to customers “it is better to shut up and give money”. Suini reacted to this claim.
If you believe the chapter Epic, In the future, the service will acquire assessment system. It will be created on the basis of the functionality already implemented at the Unreal Engine trading platform. Developers will be able to include the system at their request. Suini He believes that this is necessary to fight the Revoy-Bombing-intentional underestimation of the rating.
We’re working on a Review System for the Epic Games Store Based on the Existing One in the Unreal Engine Marketplace. IT Will BE Opt-in Bylopers. We Think This is Best Because Review Bombing and Other Gaming-The-System Is a Real Pr creatm.
– TIM SweENEY (@TimSweEnePIC) December 26, 2018.
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The best comments
Epic boss understands that the launch of a new site gives players inconvenience. However, in his opinion, competition is necessary – when a monopoly is installed on the market, the share of the profit that goes to the creators of the content begins to decrease.
The EPIC Games Store service has been getting hold of a good library of temporary exclusives – Ashen, Hades, Journey, Super MEAT BOY FOREVER, World WALKING DEAD: The Final Season will be released or have already been released on the site.
Only this phenomenon is not there, something bad, and not more than a tool of reporting to the developers-that in the game, something went wrong.
Moreover, in Steam there is an indicator for this – “all reviews” and “recent reviews”, which allows user to understand. This recent update was so angry, or the game itself is still thunderous.
Therefore, an attempt to take another tool of expression from the players, this is somehow such an idea.
But let it develop, it’s time to give a invigorating kick for a long time and break your leg, because it weighs a ton and make Valve work.
Blah blah blah! Nothing interesting and not a single sensible argument why I should use Epic Store. Although there are exclusives, but a continuous turkey (something can change in the future, but for now I personally pass). The interface is inconvenient (it is clear that it is raw, but if you really start so aggressively, you could make better), reviews and assessments are pancake protection from the purchase of some shit. "(Protection from" Revue-Bombing "is certainly good, but this is the protection of Igrodelov, not the players), and not buy and then make a return (again, extra hassle for the user). There is no forum, I should go to the off site, where again, you need to go stamped, scribble about bugs in the game, and if the developer is not conscientious, then the modders will obey everything and I will remain ignored with my “objectionable” problem. And also a lot of small troubles. In short, from all sides, the site is oriented for developers, not players ..
I’m over for competition for competition, it is time to terminate Valve to put the loot in the development of Steam, and not the riveting of the “hats”, but it is necessary to do this focusing on the players too.
It’s only in EULA that user data (and not only) Epic Games can be used as they want)
By the way, recently there was the https://gamesnotongamstop.co.uk/slingo/ release of the podcast “How Games Make Games” fully devoted to answers to questions regarding the Epicor store. If briefly: development plans are scheduled for 2 years ahead. Now the Magaz is at the stage of the experiment: they look at sales. And they delight them. To complete the experiment, they are waiting for a big game.
Firstly, it suddenly became clear that the huge number of Fordnights did not have Steam at all. Why not spill this audience?
That is, a huge number of users do not buy in any form at all))). Good luck to spill the audience of a free game, which is the idea of “paying for games” Keknet and will go further to Battl Royal Freast to cut).
Secondly, games in the epicstore will be preoccupied with people. There is no Mostli-positivity of a trashtina consisting of unity ascets a little more than completely.
Well, I wish you good luck to people who in two years develops have made such a squalor in manually moderate hundreds of games. If the appearance and quality of the work of “no-stroke-Store” directly shouts “we have a complete ass with human and temporary resources, the design is developed by mediocre people, and we do not know how to do functionality”.
Thirdly, there is a rumor that developers and publishers begin to slowly pour from Steam. Nobody likes to give a third of the revenue for the next chin of Gaben. Epica just here, deciding to dump the market.
In the meantime, rumors go, I will remind you once again about Gris. And here it is, CDPR conveys hello, says that selling games only on one site, and not go to where the mass player is sitting, who will not go to use the wretched shit from Epic – well, such an idea. It just so happened in the real world that the profit from 100k sold from royalties of 30% slightly more than 10k copies with 12% royalties. I don’t know what this is connected with, all the fucking mathematicians probably ..
EPIC does not share users with Tencent or any other company, ”the general director assured. – We do not share it, do not sell it and, unlike many other companies
I hinted at so opaque
There is a huge hole in your logic. Metakritik is not a store and anyone can leave reviews there. In the store, only people who bought the game write reviews that completely wems such grades.
Which online game store develops more actively than Steam?
Perhaps the GOG has made a platform for mods? In EA Origin, an emulator has appeared to use any controller to play any game? No? Steam is still the most developed? So maybe then it is not necessary to kick it, but all sorts of GOG, ORUGIN and UPLAY?
Which is miserable and glitter almost completely. I tried to use it when the witcher 3.
With the same success we can say: “Why do you need black caviar? There is a zucchini!". I know about third -party emulators very well, but you probably are not very, since they were mentioned in the context of the emulator built -in in Steam.
I’ll say a secret: I am not a hater or a fan, and, accordingly, what I’m talking about, is not assumptions, or doubts, or fantasies.
I, as a user, are interested in how many chips are now, and not how much my grandchildren will see.
These are real disadvantages.
And competitors are not even trying. All that can – to stuff yourself with exluzes.
Although Epic has planned a straight revolution to make. But only I doubt very much that we will be the benefit of his actions, because Epic intends to compete with Steam is by no means convenient for users. Not all competition is good.
> And the store is just a store
Yes. There is just a store, but there is online store. And in online stores there are reviews-in Steam, on Ali some, on the Amazon. You can list for a long time.
About to take the same Sabnautics that they handed out. Players who have encountered any problems, had to go to Steam.
Your argument has 2 logical failures:
1) in the case of RDR2, ignoring the PC and there is a wrong.
2) in this case we are talking about products that have already been purchased and are in the library.
Classical cognitive distortion "The mistake of the surviving". While GRIS reports, those who failed, not scrubbing to marketing, do not report. If a few years ago a universal answer to the question “how to make money on your game” was “to put on Steam”, now he is no longer promoted, because Steam does not promote the games and they drown, suffocate in the flows of the Treeshatin, which falls there daily.
That is, you make a deliberately engaged person to believe? Yes, and how his words cancel the simple fact that 90% of future “buyers” had not previously bought games, since they did not use shops)))?
I wish you good luck to a person who believes that games can be moderated somehow differently. In fact, the epic goes through apple appstore. Well, I wish you good luck to the person who read my comment diagonally and did not notice that it was not said anywhere there that the store was developed for two years. In fact, this is still raw beta. Early access if you like.
And about 2 years – this is not in your comment, it is in an interview with the same Galenkin from other resources. Good morning.
Yeah aha. And the blizzard also transfers. Let’s see what happens if any TES 6 suddenly comes out with a temporary exclusive. As before the CDPR, the second witcher was not very popular in the West. This is the third bomb.
Well TES6 will come out and most likely not even temporary. But this is of course a powerful argument, yes, to give an example a game that definitely has a huge fan base and which, with any sorties, will bring frantic profits. But on the "successes" of Rage 2, Wolfenstein Youngblood and Doom Eternal, I’ll see. Regretfully, but this is another question ..
As if competitors are doing this, not consumers. And the fight against consumer protests is so -so a solution in the eyes of the same consumer.
Steam takes 30 % [revenue], and EPIC – 12 %. This is 18 % of the difference, and most developers earn much less than those very 18 %.
It seems to me for a long time what the “same” 18% are talking about; type "70% of the income of some – this is less abstract 18% of the income of others"? Or the remaining 70% in Steam is less than the extra 18% of epic: D is complex.
And generally it is not entirely clear why everyone is firing these 30%. Why then no one complains about retail shops and Sony with Microsoft.
So console people can take their disk, and return it to the store, like any product. This is the Lack of Refand for a long time was a problem, until someone had a VELV. And the reviews of consolers on the same methasritic can leave, since they do not have funds for this in the store.
Because Steam is very similar to a monopolist. That is, we now have a store on the market in which not large publishers simply cannot but publish because it will deprive them of profits.
Who was the first to go to the market, who is the highest quality on the market – that and slippers. Let the others do as Steam. Let them do better than Steam. EA has no money to develop her wretched balloon? UBI has no money? But for some reason, the Poles from the CDPR, who have exactly much less money than UBI and EA can and make it better, as close as possible to Steam. This is not a monopoly – this is the reality of the market: the best is always in the plus and priority. Therefore, there are numerous
Steam gives an infrastructure that an ordinary company simply cannot provide itself and which people now demand from each project. And it doesn’t matter to them indie or full -fledged aa. Companies are forced to go to Steam, which in turn will squeeze out 30% from sales. This still imposes certain obligations on Steam at least.
And precisely because the company cannot provide infrastructure, it should pay 30%. Well, let some kind of indurate developer sell his game only on his website or saw his site. Oh … this will not cost 30% and the Duchess-Democrate will go around the world after the first release, or even before it? Well, yes, it is. And while some shout “horse 30%”, a murder “12% of the Epicians”, Epica for these 12% and made a piece of shit, which looks and works like a piece of shit. And it will continue to look and work.
It is difficult to cut the launches, not a single company will immediately be able to give incomplete competition, in no way. This moment plays by players.
That’s all my speech: everyone imagines himself smartest and tries to do what Valve has done 15 years. And it is obvious that you need to have a smaller appetite and invest, but it is easier to create a monopoly fork. Okay, if from their games, have the right. But Epic. They did not buy all the studios for the games of which they received a monopoly. They do not bring neither the players nor the developers of benefit, they stupidly kill the PC-infrastructure so hardly rising, rolling it up almost to pirate realities. Well done, what to say here.
And the Epic store should be evaluated first of all by how it will look after half a year-a year, and not now. And then it turns out that a proposal enters the market that further promises the user only the benefits of competition, but the players themselves water it shit because it will not be able to go around the competitor of ten years on golden eggs from scratch.
It would be valid if Epicians did not declare themselves competitors on the move, if they had not sawed what they released on December 7, 2 shitty years (2 years, Karl, and this shameful wretched vyser. ), if they had not created an impudent and imposed monopoly on the move, instead of inviting the players a unique feature. Uplay offers, GOG offers that Origin has been given for several years as (paid subscription to the player of games), even future Discord and Robocache offer. Epicians stupidly launched a non -working, empty store on the market and said “I did” and added “and in a year it will even probably look complete shit, but partial”. Well done!
If you take Uplay, Origin or Battle.Net, then only games of its own production/publishers are sold there, the GOG is designed for a less wide audience, and Microsoft Store exclusively sells games with Xbox.
Origin is allowed with outstretched arms of the game from other publishers.
Microsoft Store sells games not only with Xbox and launches with outstretched arms of the game from other publishers.
GOG is now designed for the widest audience, although it was originally positioned as a store of old games.
For the fact that he made the best game store, which the rest to catch up with quality, information content and functionality are simply incapable of. Yes, Steam is not perfect, but he is the best. These are the rest of the stores you need to kick something, they at least somehow began to develop.