First of all, AW2 isn't going to be a success because as AW1 or any other Remedy game, they don't have enough fans.
Pretty much this.
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This is exactly why I think they won't stay exclusive forever, because at some point promos and moneyhats will stop and they will want to keep getting fresh money and let's be honest, most EGS users don't even know what Alan Wake is, even less the rest of the published ones.
We knew that from the trial documents.
It's disappointing, but I'll happily buy it when it comes to Steam with all the DLC included.
I expect some sort of desperate Hail Mary attempt to defibrillate the store before scaling back investment and turning it into a first-party store like Origin or uPlay.
This is just more proof that the deal was made at the same time as SR3, in fact SR3 was the "here you have a gift" part from Deep Silver to Epic
I guess app makers settled because they didn't see this going their way otherwise? Just out of sheer convenience, the majority of purchases would still be within the App Store environment even if they allow developers to inform people of alternative payment options. Greedy, greedy.
Well Epic will look like a fool and that is always a win!
Pretty much. From what I can make out all they have done is classified that they can advertise other payment method visa email.
No, but someone wasted time writing an article so you'd think that something changed when it's just all the same.
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database.egdata.app
The more people enjoying NIOH, the better, awesome game.Soon.
Epic Games Database
egdata.app is a free and open source Epic Games Store API. It is a community driven project that aims to provide a comprehensive and accurate database of all the games available on the Epic Games Store.
Wonder if it’ll be a freebie or if Koei is using it to test the waters on EGS. Wouldn’t mind it being free if it gives more people a chance to play it though.Soon.
Epic Games Database
egdata.app is a free and open source Epic Games Store API. It is a community driven project that aims to provide a comprehensive and accurate database of all the games available on the Epic Games Store.
Most developers won't test the waters but directly put their games there because it's just another option for more potential revenue, testing the waters with a freebie isn't wise because it doesn't give you any data but how many people are willing to get your stuff for free.
What's the settlement here? "We won and won't persecute you for it"?
Tim Cook already said that Apple would find other ways to collect commissions. They will probably come up with some new system to ensure they still get their cut, but create additional friction for most developers. The Epics and Spotifys of the world will earn extra cash, but smaller developers will probably take a hit.
If you ever want to indulge in some self loathing, just read his Twitter page for a few minutes. Actually you can apply that to Twitter as a whole.
Apple pays $100m in restitution to developers not named Epic, and they keep their walled garden outside of Korea.
I believe the game was not supported by Geforce Now, so I directly put it in the backlog without looking. These days, both the Steam and EGS versions are supported by Geforce Now, so the situation is different.
Reading this post makes me feel happy Im not bothering with cloud gaming.I have been playing the first chapters of A Plague Tale with PC Game Pass and xCloud. Then, as I was checking the Steam store page, I realized that I had marked the game as "ignored". Mystery!
It turns out I forgot that I had recently received the game for free on EGS.
Thankfully, I have noticed before I was too far into the game. A few solutions from now:
- finish the game on xCloud before my Game Pass subscription runs out,
- finish the game on xCloud the next time I subscribe to Game Pass (as the cloud save is not deleted at the end of the subscription period),
- download the entire game via Game Pass only to retrieve the save file, and then transfer it to Steam or EGS,
- restart the playthrough with the EGS version on Geforce Now.
With EGS, I would have been able to download the cloud save without downloading the game via the open-source command-line tool "Legendary".
With xCloud, no. So restarting the playthrough with the EGS version would not lead to a similar situation in the future.
Another funny trivia about cloud saves: Shenmue III does not support cloud saves on EGS. However, the EGS version can be played on Geforce Now. As far as I understand, Nvidia implemented an in-house solution to feature cloud saves for this game, effectively locking down the cloud save in the process. There is no way to download it at all.
It is only an issue for Shenmue III as:Reading this post makes me feel happy Im not bothering with cloud gaming.
Ah I see, just felt very confusing reading all the "steps"/"alternatives" you have to decide on to continue playing.It is only an issue for Shenmue III as:
1) Nvidia implemented an in-house solution for cloud saves to make up for the shortcomings of EGS,
2) their solution locks down the cloud save.
Regarding Plague Tale, it is not an issue:
1) I could finish the game on xCloud without any issue.
2) I could also let my subscription run down and finish the game two years from now: my save would be waiting for me in the cloud. I did that for Guacamelee 2.
3) if I really wanted to, I could download the game to get my save, but the whole point of xCloud was to avoid that,
4) I can restart the playthrough on an open store like EGS (and skip the cut-scenes to get back to the start of chapter 2). Plus, the game is great anyway.
I mean, there was no issue with Plague Tale in the first place. It is just me trying (for fun) to move the save file around for a 10-hour game. For this purpose, EGS/Legendary is as good as Steam/SteamCTL. The bottleneck is that Microsoft does not offer a command-line tool to download cloud saves, which is a pain for 20GB games.
I am also rather patient and lenient because, without cloud gaming, I would not be able to play this game in good conditions.
If cloud gaming does not solve any problem for your use-case, then you are better not bothering with it: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
As far as I understood, it's 3% of total revenue in the country and not just app store revenue. IIRC, most of Apple's revenue still comes from hardware so it would amount to a pretty hefty fine.
No, they are adding stuff to the Steam package, probably a bit later than EGS and that's it, but package is active.
The developers of Alto Collection released an expanded version of one of the games on Apple Arcade in July so its likely they’re waiting for that exclusivity deal to end so they can launch on Steam with the new content at the same time.
The Last Campfire is coming, it got updated a few days ago.
lmao, we just said the same xD
