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Fallout 3: GOTY Edition is free to keep for the next 24 hours on the Epic Games Store (store.epicgames.com)
submitted 10 months ago by simple to c/games
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No one is upset about having to use EGS for Fortnite. Their own games that they develop themselves they can do what they want with.

The issue is when Epic approaches other developers, especially those that have already announced a Steam release, and try to get exclusivity out of them: https://medium.com/@unfoldgames/why-i-turned-down-exclusivity-deal-from-the-epic-store-developer-of-darq-7ee834ed0ac7

Epic: We would love to have you on our service
Dev: I'm not interested in exclusivity
Epic: then we have no interest in having you on our service

Having more options for their customers makes their service better, but Epic isn't interested in being a better service.

[–] Rose -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dev: I’m not interested in exclusivity

Epic: then we have no interest in having you on our service

If anything, the example you brought up proves the opposite. Darq is on Epic and its developer even took money from Epic to make it free, so there is no grudge even past the dev's publicity stunt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Their attempt to strong arm an exclusivity deal failed and at some point they relented and put the game on their store.

If they had just hosted in on their service at the same time in launched on Steam it would have been better for their customers and more profitable for Epic. But they are more concerned about trying to force exclusives than do what is better for their customers, even if it loses them money.