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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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