Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”
GalacticHero@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThe cut taken by stores is of little concern to me as a consumer. Greenlight was a mess for a lot of reasons, but they discontinued it years ago, while Epic continues to pay for exclusivity deals. Steam provides lots of services to me that Epic doesn’t, though, as others have listed here. That said, I also like GOG and itch.io.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It makes the cost of developing games more expensive. They have to charge nearly 20% more for games on Steam to make the same money they do on EGS.
It’s also why Valve hardly makes games anymore. They sell 4 games made with other people’s money and they’ll have the same gross income as selling a game they paid to develop. Throw in the cost of development, and they just can’t justify game development as a major part of their business.
emax_gomax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This argument about cost of development would hold more weight if the game store savings were passed onto the users rather than just eaten up by the publishers. Borderlands 3 base game has the exact same price on steam vs EGS atm, £49.99. Clearly those 20% savings are just extra money the publisher wants to pocket rather than actual necessary costs to the game. If their happy to pass it off to steam when sold on the steam platform rather than raise the price to recoup the platform tax.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes, but with EGS more money goes to the company making the games. AAA games have never been more expensive to produce, and developers are shutting doors left and right. After the Vista of marketing and overhead, more of the proceeds of the game are going to the fucking download service than the people making the game.
emax_gomax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Blame the publishers then. They set the price and they dictate the bonuses of the devs based on sales. Choosing to believe more money from the game store is actually making its way to devs instead of shareholders is naive at best.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Alyx was a full game, portal 1/2?
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Alyx was a tech demo, and it, Portal, and Portal 2 combined are about the size of Half Life 2.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Have you played Alyx? It’s a full game