Epic Games Store will proceed to signal and fund exclusivity offers with devs and publishers “regardless” of any earlier commitments to Steam.
Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic, has acknowledged that the exclusivity offers and funding supplied by the Epic Games Store will proceed to roll out regardless of any “plans or announcements” that potential builders and publishers coming over to the platform could have made round Steam.
Sweeney chimed in with this tidbit on Twitter after being questioned concerning the assertion that Epic Games Store head Steve Allison made throughout an Epic Store Q&A at GDC 2019.
“We don’t want to do that ever again,” Allison said in reference to the Metro Exodus debacle which noticed Deep Silver pull the game from Steam previous to launch because it introduced its timed-exclusivity cope with the Epic Games Store.
Deep Silver honoured pre-order purchases made on Steam, however the sudden information ticked off the group, leading to the series getting review-bombed on Valve’s platform.
Elaborating on Epic’s place, Sweeney tweeted that Allison’s GDC feedback “prompted further discussions” inside Epic, “leading to the realization that these calls must be up to developers and publishers, and Epic wouldn’t tell them ‘no’ on account of existing statements made about Steam.”
We’ve had a whole lot of discussions about this since GDC. Epic is open to persevering with to signal funding / exclusivity offers with prepared builders and publishers no matter their earlier plans or bulletins round Steam.
— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) April 1, 2019
This prompted additional discussions at Epic, resulting in the conclusion that these calls should be as much as builders and publishers, and Epic wouldn’t inform them ‘no’ on account of current statements made about Steam.
— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) April 1, 2019
Epic Games Store exclusives embrace Remedy’s Control, “several major PC releases” from Ubisoft, and upcoming Obsidian RPG The Outer Worlds.
Borderlands three followers additionally suspect that Gearbox has signed an analogous cope with Epic, after recognizing the Store’s emblem in a since-removed Twitter advert for the game that may have spilled the beans on the game’s release date.
Sweeney didn’t have anything to say on the matter, however he places the duty of platform-hopping onto the shoulder of the devs and publishers of the games, indicating that it isn’t Epic’s place to show down anybody primarily based on any plans they could have within the works with Steam.
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