They can’t sell the games cheaper than steam as the steam’s conditions doesn’t let devs sell games on other stores cheaper than steam.
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ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoAdvertising better cuts to publishers doesn’t mean much when the price is the same across platforms. If epic was consistently 10% cheaper than steam it would get better traction.
whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
This is only true for steam keys.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That doesn’t apply to exclusive games which also don’t have lower prices.
whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
How could it apply to exclusive games if they don’t exist in steam in the first place
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Industry standard prices exist. If an exclusive matches them you aren’t getting a discount.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
They still have to sell for what the publisher/devs want to sell the game for, a bigger share goes to them if it’s the same price as it is on Steam.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Which I as a buyer don’t care about. That’s the whole point of the parent.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Just saying that it’s not Epic’s fault
IronKrill@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
They do often have better sales, but you have to launch the store to know and personally I woukd rather pay the extra $1 to buy on Steam…
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Steam also has a lot of other stores selling their games though. Unless epic is giving it away for free, I’m probably going to get a better deal through a fanatical bundle or someone else than I would on epic.
yamanii@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is true, here in Brazil we have an official key seller called Nuuvem that has prices so good TikTok banned their ads thinking it was a scam, since they often have small discounts even on new games.
Just have to be careful because sometimes the key is for Uplay instead of steam.