Comment on 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs

• beetus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You do realize those are exclusive for only a year, right? So EGS pays them out for a year.of exclusivity and then the devs are free to launch on steam and others.

  The thing is, often if they don’t get that first infusion of cash from a deal with EGS (or another investor) they don’t get to complete or even launch the game at all.

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  • Halosheep@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Usually by the time they’ve made it off EGS, I’ve forgotten they exist. There’s been many sequels to games I loved that I forgot existed because of this.

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    • newcool1230@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same, after a few years you see them show up on steam and all the reviews are

      • "All my lobbies are empty"
      • “It takes 30+ mins to get into a game with 2 other players”
      • “I’m only getting matched against bots”

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    • pory@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or the EGS phase was just glorified beta access like Hades.

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