Remedy Entertainment has unveiled that they received a multi-million dollar loan from Tencent to aid in their future projects.
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Another thing that would help is not releasing one of your most anticipated and subsequently well received games in recent memory exclusively on Epic. Still waiting for Alan Wake 2 to release on Steam or Gog guys…
Why is that so important? If you like the game and want to support it, buy it
I don’t support shit tier game storefronts.
But if you don’t like the platform and don’t want to support it, what do you do then?
And a lot of people don’t like epic games for a number of reasons.
If it’s just a game launcher then whatever. Is the game any different over there?
Maybe if you appreciate the studio and their work you should buy the game where they will make the most profit from the sale.
If they offer it on steam and then sell Steam keys on their own website, that should get them the most from each sale…
Apparently they’re not making enough profit on Epic to avoid taking a loan from Tencent.
Personally, I object to Epic using purchased exclusivity as a tool to gain market share, and refuse to capitulate to that approach when there’s so many other games to play. If they truly.want to compete with Steam then actually make their marketplace competitive with more social and community features that Steam offers.
They’re not making enough profit on Epic because people prefer feeding Steam’s monopoly and would rather wait for the game to come to that platform than purchase it on a platform where the devs would get a bigger share of the sale. It’s not that they don’t make enough profit per copy on Epic, it’s that the number of customers isn’t high enough to compensate.
The social stuff is bloat, you need the platform to purchase and launch your games, that’s it, they already have all essentials like being able to automatically join friends in multiplayer games, why do they need crap like cards or forums (which are better as a third party administered by people who don’t have a financial incentive to hide complaints).
No matter how much they make their platform similar to Steam, you’ll find another reason not to buy on it, people are still complaining about shit they fixed years ago like not having a cart or achievements.
It’s very funny to see people on Lemmy (of all places) pushing for centralization.
God damnit, they just got away from Tencent…?
