The Epic Games Store is not the one place to purchase its exclusives, because the promised partnership with the Humble Store has begun. You can now purchase Epic keys for Metro Exodus and Dangerous Driving from Humble, in addition to pre-order Borderlands 3 (you understand higher than to pre-order, in fact). These nonetheless run by way of the Epic Games Launcher on an Epic account, so it’s not an enormous change, however this does imply they profit from the wee low cost of Humble subscriptions and is perhaps in gross sales extra usually.
You’ll discover Metro here, Driving here, and Borderlands here. The 10% low cost for Humble Monthly subscribers applies to Metro and Driving, although not Borderlands.
“More games are coming,” Epic mentioned in yesterday’s announcement. This isn’t an enormous change however y’know, Epic are slowly making progress on the various options Steam has over their Store. Slower than anticipated.
“We’ve shifted features targeted for April to May and June as development efforts have focused on supporting online features required for new game launches,” Epic added. They level to their Store roadmap on Trello for issues to come back.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney recently claimed the corporate would cease pursuing sloosies if Steam would match Epic’s decrease 12% reduce of gross sales. That’s a daring declare, one which presents their multisquillion-dollar transfer as an altruistic act to stress Valve. Which appears unlikely.
