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.
Halosheep@lemm.ee 3 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.
newcool1230@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Same, after a few years you see them show up on steam and all the reviews are
pory@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Or the EGS phase was just glorified beta access like Hades.