Combined with steam actually lowering the 30% share once the game sells a proper number of copies (and I believe it's different numbers for triple A games and indies)
iirc AAA already had their own share negotiations (rules don't really apply when you're big enough if you will), and even before it was official policy you could try to get a better cut. now it's simply based on revenue which is much easier to work with (first milestone is 10 million in revenue for 25%, next one 50 mill for 20%).
That's again your opinion. Minecraft was also a shitty niche indie title. There have been plenty of fantastic games given out on epic. Games like super hot, super meat boy, faster than light.
They're not just noise, and those games become yours if you have any slight interest in them. I have tons of games on steam, most of which I've never played. They fill out my library and makes it look big. Which makes it feel good. And makes me hesitant to move over somewhere else. They got me beat and if something similar happens to someone else in EGS then so be it. I planted my tree on steam therefore I always return to it and it's my default storefront. if a new pc user ends up planting their seed on EGS...
minecraft, wat? that some marissa moira level of deflection.
you also conveniently ignore that the majority of games, as good as they are, were years old. most people already played them when they became free on epic because they've been whored out on bundles and sales for ages. if you didn't care about them before why would you suddenly care about them now?
that also ignores that a day only has 24 hours, it's nice that timmy gives us years old games for free when they are competing with the new hotness. you said it yourself you got plenty of shit on steam you never played (and most likely never will), the exact same thing is gonna happen on epic, with the difference you don't even know half the games in your library because "I grabbed them when they were free *shrug*". ask yourself, why didn't you play all those games in your library at least once?
It's really important to realize they're not aiming to win over steam users directly but instead plant the seed for a new pc user that may not even be aware of steam yet. It's why fortnite is such an important opportunity for them.
so did ea with origin, while having a much broader catalog of high profile exclusives targeting a broader demographic right from the start. how did that work? apparently not that great when I now can buy an ea pass on steam.
as for the anger, no one really gave a fuck you could only buy ea games on origin for years or now only on uplay (because why bother with egs). it's not the games but how it's handled. devs using steam happily generating hype before telling everyone "see ya suckers, buy on epic"? taking over kickstarters which were advertised with a steam key? this has also mostly died down, because now people know they just need to wait a year if they really want it (which gives them plenty of time playing something else, maybe even their backlog, where they promptly forget about the game that looked interesting a year ago) or the price is so retarded no one in his right mind would buy it (kingdom hearts complete is over 200 burgerbucks, for that price you can buy a used ps4 with their version, or just emulate most of it).
I don't know what you're on about here, I used discord as a successful example of moving a userbase away from something people were used to towards something new. Which as I said, I previously thought was impossible. People are hesitant to move once they're settled in and discord proves the rule.
yeah, from where? what did they use before? this is also nothing "new", back in the old days people were constantly switching every few years. icq was a thing once. so was myspace. the difference is the new thing brought something new to the table, even if it was just more convenience. that's why features matter. no one switches to a
worse version of something existing, and even if the epic store is your first foray into pc gaming (so you don't know better), why would you wanna stick with it once you experience what steam offers? a list full of games you don't care about / already finished /
maybe play in the future when you're not distracted by new releases (so never)?
Yeah I know unreal isn't dead at all yet, but I wonder how much the emerging threat of unity may have caused them to need something else to skim off of the top of like they used to do with unreal engine and valve does with steam. Unity is definitely shaping up and is losing it's reputation as an asset-flipper engine which may have caused the whole store thing once get realized what they had with fortnite.
maybe, but given timmy's autistic behavior I stopped trying to understand why epic does what it does. for 3d heavy games unreal is still pretty much a lock in (I think it even comes with the playstation dev kit, which is a pretty good trojan horse), and that's the ones sony and other big publishers are pushing. he might be aware that a horde of unity indie games can sting in it's sum since they don't have the means and needs to properly utilize unreal anyway (while timmy taking royalties), but trying to take on steam in the worst way possible.. dunno. makes more sense with them branching out into the professional space like movie vfx and architecture as they're currently doing, since having a lock on that space is basically loads of industrial tier money for very little effort and a very inert customer base.
