Thanks for the reply! Yeah I tried responding on my phone last night but I couldn’t even scroll on the page, had to reset my computer this morning because a single chrome window with kotaku opened had my tablet at 65% cpu usage lol.

It’s a dumb practice, but seems companies are moving towards it. Look at Disney and their Star Wars movies once they release their streaming service.

Yeah agreed. I mean looking at this big picture, EA has had almost all of their games exclusively on the Origin store for years. It’s annoying and I hate that they do that but in this case the spontaneity looks to me the main cause of distress.

My whole stchict is that they aren’t selling the game at all on steam. Sell the game for $63 on steam so they make the same amount per sale as selling on the Epic store. At least have the balls as a company to announce you are doing this and explain why instead of just seemingly out of the blue. Everyone has released…

So I don’t see the promotional momentum you speak on other than a single post on their page, but given how convoluted the steam store is, game like exodus would stand out more on the Epic store.

“Died due to stress from opening another program on computer”

Can’t argue this one lol.

Sell the game on steam for $62.86. Let people choose where to buy their game at, make people get angry at Valve for forcing developers to price their games higher because of how high their margins are.

Hmm, good points. I’ve been making the point of if Deep Silver just sold the game on steam for $62.86 so they earned the same amount per game in the Epic and steam store AND explained why their prices had to be a bit higher in steam, that puts the ballpark in Valve’s hand because majority of people want to stick with…

100% agreed. Just release a statement and be honest Deep Silver :D Sell your game for $62.86 on steam so you earn the same amount you would earn on selling the game in the Epic store, so the blame goes to Valve for their crazy high margins. This is something I would hope to receive less backlash than just straight up…

Sell the game for $63 (62.86 to be exact) on steam so they make the same amount of money they would selling the game on epic, and be transparent as to why they have to have the higher price. 

Sell they game for $63 on steam, meaning they earn the same amount of money per game on Epic and Steam. Don’t force people to have to use a service they have no incentive to use. Eventually with the lower prices for customers, they’ll either move to another store (prob not likely lol) or start a movement against Valve…

Thanks for the reply, yeah reading back through my comment I throw the developer completely under the bus which wasn’t intended. Didn’t realize that and thanks for calling me on that one.

Yeah I can get behind that, that’s the cherry-on-top of issues it seems. Doesn’t mean forcing people to use another launcher vs. being transparent, explaining why you can have a lower price on Epic vs higher price on Steam, and turning this issue into valve for their shitty margins is a point not worth bringing up.

Like the majority of things in life, gaming is a hobby. When that hobby becomes a convoluted mess to keep track of with multiple stores, each with their own sets of friends lists and UI and updates, etc, things get frustrating. Have the game on another store for a lower price and adjust the price on steam to match the…

Agreed that stores having better margins and lower prices can lead to valve actually making changes. US cellular networks do this, they creep down prices to one-up their competition, forcing the other companies to lower their price as well.

Let companies sell their games on other stores. Have the price be higher on their steam stores and be transparent to the whole issue and why from a business perspective they have to make this move. Get the mob to team up on valve for their shitty margins.

Yeah, changing your distribution channel two weeks before the game comes out is a shitty move. And if you have found a statement from them explaining why I would love to read it because I have not. The fact they did it and statements from Epic, THQ, and Valve have talked about it but they remain silent seems shady. If…

I have a feeling people would be much happier with this if they kept the game on Steam, but also sold it on the Epic store for a cheaper price because of the better % margins. They aren’t forcing anyone to one option, and you will have the people who just want to buy the game for the lower price, ala Epic.

Seems more so a point of retaliation towards the notion of certain stores having sole rights to a PC game, leaving zero ability to let price competition do its thing with other sellers. And having 5+ clients on one system is a pain in the ass, ain’t nobody want that.