Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”

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brenno@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

And Tim Sweeny made the offer to stop offering Epic exclusivity and even sell their games on Steam if Valve offered to provide their service to developers at the same rate as Epic.

Tim Sweeny didn’t make an offer, he tried to make positive PR to EGS while trying to paint Valve as the bad guys; Valve obviously wouldn’t charge the same rate as Epic because they include a lot more value for both user and developers than Epic does: to list a few of Valve services that Epic doesn’t have:

That’s not to mention the benefits developers can get from Steam’s platform and SDK:

If you ask me, I think Epic is the one charging way too much

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