Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"

• simonced@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Steam customers are out of the loop. We could access the game through epic store, but it’s a separate account, and not everybody has/want one. Hence the wait to release on Steam.

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So he didn’t make anyone wait, some people just chose to

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• Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For small indies it makes sense to publish on the pc epic game store a year earlier to get fundet for simply releasing the game there earlier.
  A lot of smaller indies used that time as a kind of early access and got later super popular on steam, the main pc game store.

  But for a big studio to do something like this is scummy
  They already have a playerbase and a big budget
  I dont even know if payment was involved but there is no other reason i can think of that explains this

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