I’m not sure how this is in conflict with what I’ve said. I know people fell in love with it early on but I saw neither a proven track record nor a solid proof-of-concept that made me want to support it. 

Didn’t Kickstart this game and didn’t pre-order it so I guess I’m not the voice they care about, but the more of this game releases the lower it slides on my wishlist, and really it might just be removed from it altogether. 

Maybe the lesson here is we shouldn’t just blindly support Kickstarter games, but support Kickstarters from developers who have a proven track record of releasing a quality product or new developers that have realistic goals and business models. All of the games but 1 that JoshG listed could not exist and Kickstarter…

GoG shoots themselves in the foot by not allowing all new AAA games which are still the highest selling games in the PC marketplace. You can’t get GTA V on GoG, you can’t get Fallout 4 on GoG, they do it to themselves. 

Right, I didn’t think that was still the case when Hollow Knight released but maybe it was.

As i mentioned in another reply though, I don’t know what hubris that is. If they were offering 70% and nobody in the entire market was even offering ANYTHING, what were they supposed to do? As far as they were concerned, that was the industry standard. Not to mention as other people here are mentioning, Valve has…

didn’t know that, thanks for the info

Actually because of Epic’s 12% cut vs. Valve’s 30% cut you absolutely could compete with Steam. Somewhere in that 12-30% range is a potential price cut on games that still nets both sides more of a profit than releasing on Steam.

In fairness (I guess it’s fairness?) there really wasn’t anything like Epic Store before this so I don’t think steam was really adamantly keeping things exclusive. If you were, say, the developer of Hollow Knight and you were looking into how to release the game on PC, your options probably looked like this at the…

I’d recommend looking at Newegg’s “RGB processor”...it’s a joke product but if you go to the product page you can enter to win an Intel 9900k, which is a very real and very good product.

Who said I didn’t think it was bad?

let the complaints begin

I mean you have no idea what the actual case is, as you’re not in their board meetings, but please enlighten us as to what the case is when 350 people are now fired. 

The “success” there in regards to BFV was meant to be sarcastic. The game made money, but definitely not what they were expecting.

Oh yeah, definitely. I wasn’t comparing the two as if BFV had a massive marketing campaign and Apex had zero marketing, It’s just that even with the current TV/internet ad spot campaign Apex is getting, I can easily picture the Apex crew needing 100-200 less employees on the marketing side (I’m assuming the whole 350…

It’s not as if they’ve completely gutted their marketing team though. They still have a likely large marketing team even with 350 people gone. It’s important to note that it wasn’t just marketing that got gutted too. Analytics is becoming more computer driven which causes downsizing in a bunch of companies. Publishing…

EA has a lot of skill in shoving their most talented employees (regardless of their role) into a closet to work on what usually amounts to shit. On the one end, companies that know this should be frothing at the mouth to scoop up these employees. On the other, these employees haven’t had a chance to shine so their…

Despite whatever they may have done to cause the issue in the first place, it wasn’t surprising that the upper execs were going to look at the success of a highly advertised Battlefield V vs. the out-of-nowhere Apex Legends and think “so what are we paying all these marketing people for again?” This probably could’ve…

Hello Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, what are you doing in that Steam library? I do get the “Add a non-steam game to library” feature but it’s an odd choice to go with a library that includes an Origin-exclusive game in it. Maybe they want to show off how non-Steam games will get displayed nicely too? Maybe ME:C is coming to…

I’m surprised IGN’s involvement with Humble hasn’t led to more “conflict of interest” accusations. Maybe they’ll increase with this news.