You do realize those are usually exclusive for only a year, right? So EGS pays them out for a year of exclusivity and then the devs are free to launch on steam and others.

The thing is, often if they don't get that first infusion of cash from a deal with EGS (or another investor) they don't get to complete or even launch the game at all. So it never would make it to the other markets.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Usually by the time they've made it off EGS, I've forgotten they exist. There's been many sequels to games I loved that I forgot existed because of this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Same, after a few years you see them show up on steam and all the reviews are

"All my lobbies are empty"
"It takes 30+ mins to get into a game with 2 other players"
"I'm only getting matched against bots"

[–] pory 1 points 8 months ago

Or the EGS phase was just glorified beta access like Hades.