Paid exclusives ruin PC gaming, only devs who don’t believe in their game sing an exclusive contract. They’ll learn the hard way for sure :)
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Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoYou realize paid exclusives gives a guaranteed income to devs so they don’t have to rely on the Steam gamble?
Would you work for your employer if you had no guarantee you would get paid and you had to wait years for your potential first paycheque?
Cris16228@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Bullshit.
18k games released on Steam this year, how many did you hear about and how many were actually successful?
There’s tons of good games that just won’t sell enough for the devs to recoup their cost just because no streamer decided to play them. Go read on indie devs communities what the experience is like when releasing a game you put your heart and soul into only to get no coverage and no sales.
Cris16228@lemmy.today 1 week ago
The only way it ruins PC gaming is by forcing you to use a launcher
You said it yourself, it ruins PC by forcing they crappy launcher
Games on epic are either released there and forgotten by many or given away for free one day
Tell me what Epic does better than anything else, I’m waiting.
- 88/12 is not a valid point because 88 of 1000 is way less that 70 of 1000000
- Free games are not valid since I can get them for free anyway without needing a launcher 🏴☠️🏴☠️
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
BuT tHeIr CrApPy LaUnChEr!
Try to come up with something a bit more original. You don’t give a crap about exclusives as long as they’re on the platform you like, it’s pure hypocrisy.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
You’re saying studios like EA don’t pay their programmers unless people buy the game?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I’m talking about smaller studios but even for big studios, guaranteed income instead of gambling can be more interesting for certain projects.
The logic is still the same.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 week ago
Oh, so only indie games should be exclusives, then. Not games like Control 2.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
The analogy I used makes more sense with indie games because I’m talking about having a job (small scale), but the same logic applies to companies.
A company like Lockheed Martin will do R&D to come up with new engines and hope to recoup their cost by selling the technology later on, they’ll also sign governmental contracts with guaranteed payments as the project moves forward. You need a mix of both.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not only that. Epic takes a smaller cut, and when a game goes on sale or is free that comes from Epic’s cut, the Devs get full pay.
Something that the bootlickers always seem to forget.