EPIC GAMES DARQ UPGRADE

It's not competitive at all and lacks basic features that basically every other platform has. What epic games is bringing is not competition. Of course there would still be the occasional Valve fanboy whining as you'd expect, but there would be no widespread distaste for Epic the way that things seem to be heading right now. Tack on the occasional real exclusive, as in a game either made or funded entirely by them from day one, and you've got even more of a value add.Īssuming the above (and that Epic actually made the store functional with expected modern features), I would have no qualms about using Epic for some or all of my purchases. Maybe offer some small bonus/'port' money to smaller devs just in order to offset the cost of maintaining the game on multiple storefronts (not really necessary but I don't see anything wrong with the idea). Devs still make the same or slightly more per copy than on Steam, Epic doesn't need to put up any cash upfront and can instead invest in the service itself, and customers get a global discount on everything compared to what they'd pay on Steam. There's a difference between regular competition and all of these weird big baskets of cash that Epic is throwing around seemingly at random in any attempt to lure people onto their service.Īll they had to do was say to devs 'hey, we take a much smaller cut of your profits, in exchange we want you to lower the list price of your game on the Epic Store by ~10% versus the price on Steam. So i don't really care about exclusivity to be honest, also i don't really game all that much anymore and if i did i would prob play my 3 regular games ad infinitum so not bothered at all by new titles having to be bought either here or there. TBH the actual competition that Epic has been forcing on the industry aint a bad thing, cause a monopoly like steam kinda have had for years and good us as customers. Once you've tried to steal money from a large group, expect every little thing to bother them. Jacking up the price on someone that was expecting to pay X for a game and now might be paying 2-4 times that amount is a textbook way to generating actual hate against your company. In a big chunk of the world, EGS still doesn't have regional pricing, so any exclusive game could see somewhere between a 10-400% price increase depending on the current state of your currency relative to the USD or EUR. Discussing this again (because of Control's launch), I think I've really boiled down the actual issue. What didn't make much sense was pushing exclusivity deals before the product was ready for prime time. EGS made logical sense given that Epic already had a launcher people use for Fortnite. They want EGS to exist long after Fortnite is a 'cool memory from your childhood' because it would be a consistent revenue generator. It'll likely make less than 1 billion USD in 2020. It'll probably make between 1-2 billion USD during 2019. If they wanted a game to succeed, an exclusivity clause comes last in mind.įortnite made somewhere over 2 billion USD in 2018.

Both are text message integrations from a computer, although I guess Voice is.I don't understand why Epic wants to have exclusivity clauses outside of: Paul King It seems odd that Messages texting integration is QR only, but you can use Google Voice and its texting just via account.

FeRD I have to assume that those pages and pages of TOS none of us ever read mean their financial exposure is pretty limited either way.I have been complaining for many years that even when I was a user of Nexus phones, the assistant. Cubel I don't think the problem is the Fuchsia operating system, the google assistant works worse and worse.I’m fairly surprised how buggy the Google Nest Hub Max has gotten I've had multiple reboots from simple requests.

EPIC GAMES DARQ UPGRADE

The AI is one, but the Fuchsia OS upgrade has made the ability to keep operating a rarity.

Paul King There are multiple problems.

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