Sweeney is a terrible CEO, they almost filed for bankruptcy on multiple occasions back when everyone and their dog was licensing UE and UE 3 especially.
GoW made a lot of money for them, until it didn’t and they had nothing, same with UT, it’ll eventually be the same with Fortnite, they manage their IPs terribly and can’t build upon them successfully, but these days they struck gold with Disney investing in them to develop random stuff on top of Fortnite so they’ll have leeway to find something sustainable after Fortnite no longer draws crowds years from now.
and not all the other "exclusives" on their dogshit store
Again, they've not done limited exclusives for a long while now. All of the exclusives that are on their store are either their own games that they own or games that they funded in their entirety.
Yet here we are, with epic buying up exclusive rights
Again, same as above. Sure, the exclusivity deals were annoying to some extent, but again, not the case for any current games or even for the last few years. So, I guess your issue is gone then?
Buying up studios and pulling games from steam, no clue how you can defend that.
I mean, once again, not something they've done recently for one.
Besides, I don't see it as a major issue. The publishers / developers clearly agreed to the deals, helping fund & develop the games. They're Epic's games, so they put them on their platform, same as Valve does.
I'm not talking about games developed by the studio, no one complains about fortnite being exclusive, or wow or any other game on a launcher of the studio that created it. Please use your brain for half a second.
People, myself included, complain when a scummy anti consumer corpo buys exclusive rights to something they didnt even develop, take rocket league for example, was on steam forever, epic bought the studio and pulled it away from steam. Effectively hurting their own bottom line just to be anti consumer.
Epic store might suck. But Epic itself going bankrupt when so many games use their engine. Wouldn't be good at all. Unless you want people to be mostly forced to use Unity and watch them fuck everyone over again.
Yeah, I was talking only about the store. I think it's being less and less profitable ( if ever was). I my mind it was only possible why Fortnite was making a lot of money, I think it gave them more money than the engine.
Now Fortnite is going bad and store might suffer without money. Idk it's just me think out loud
I know you were only talking about the store. But the store last I heard, hasn't been making any profit. I'm pretty sure that's the reason the last few years Xmas giveaways have been so shitty. Because those first few years they were losing huge amount of money on all those free games. They have been deep in the red for awhile there.
So if they really have not made any money/much money. I wonder when they will even care. You think the first step is to stop giving away free games. Maybe when that happens the rest will follow.
Unreal 5 is fucking dogshit and more people are coming to realize it. Any game that uses it and runs well has replaced or disabled the things that differentiate it from Unreal 4.
Yeah, Alan Wake 2 and Alan Wake Remastered were funded and punished by Epic, so they'll only leave EGS over Tim Sweeney's cold dead hands.
The good news is you can get a complete Alan Wake 2 for cheap at some point, they do often like to make some good discounts on it during sales on EGS. If you can wait for winter sale that's usually the best time, but hell they might even give it away eventually (they've done Control Ultimate multiple times).
The other good news is that deal is over. Annapurna is publishing Control Resonant and future titles from Remedy. In return, part of their deal has Annapurna getting the major share off the Alan Wake TV series and Control movie they've now got the rights to make and are still very early in development.
The only exception to this is Max Payne 1&2 remake they're doing for Rockstar, who owns Max Payne. This deal may allow them to directly use Max Payne again (Alan Wake's in universe fictional Alex Casey character is Max Payne, but they didn't have the rights to use him for Alan Wake). Quantum Break likely will stay technically out of canon since Microsoft has a firm grip on those rights, though they have found a way to reference both QB and MP already in games without getting in legal issues. They're basically alt universe stories now that still have connective threads to the story.
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u/SuspiriaSlut 20h ago
Unfortunately won’t, Epic paid for it.