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cottonmon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I posted about this in another thread, but Epic also bought exclusivity for games that were crowd-funded then had the option to have the game on Steam removed or you’d get the Steam key after the exclusivity period expired. This pissed off a lot of people.
ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wow. That’s understandably frustrating.
cottonmon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, this caused A LOT of controversy back then. As far as I know, Epic has stopped doing this and has pivoted a bit more into funding game development (i.e Alan Wake 2.) That being said, that gave Epic have a terrible reputation when they initially launched EGS.
tristan@aussie.zone 6 months ago
They are still doing it. I’m still waiting for dead island 2 to come to steam because it’s a 1 year timed exclusive on epic
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
They still sign exclusives, they don’t do it with crowdfunded projects that promised a Steam release anymore.
cottonmon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I meant with crowd funded games. I’m aware that they still buy exclusivity though from what I know they pay indies less compared to what they used to pay.