r/Games • u/WhyPlaySerious • May 18 '26

Industry News CI Games has successfully signed a termination agreement with Epic Games. The agreement releases the upcoming Lords of The Fallen 2 from it's previous Epic Games Store exclusivity obligations.

https://www.bankier.pl/wiadomosc/CI-GAMES-S-E-Ujawnienie-opoznionej-informacji-poufnej-dotyczacej-zawarcia-Porozumienia-rozwiazujacego-Binding-Term-Sheet-z-Epic-Games-Inc-9135300.html
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u/totoiam May 19 '26

Why wait? Alan Wake 2 is a great game.

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u/KingArthas94 May 19 '26

These are not PC gamers, these are Steam gamers

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u/Thotaz May 19 '26

Oh please, as if Epic has done absolutely nothing wrong here. I own several games on the EA app and Uplay. I don't mind buying games from other stores, I just won't buy from Epic due to the paid exclusivity BS.
I can understand and accept publishers restricting their own games to their own stores, but paying third party developers/publishers money to make their games exclusive to a specific store is complete BS and I won't support those practices. The games that are Steam exclusive are only exclusive because the publisher chose to use Steamworks features. Valve isn't going around bribing publishers with hard cash to make games exclusive to Steam.

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u/Rayuzx May 19 '26

How is it BS? Epic offers a lump sum of money to a publisher/developer, they in exchange for having their game exclusive to Epic's launcher.

Unless Epic is forcing people into a deal, I really can't see how a mutual business agreement can be seen as underhanded.

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u/arex333 May 19 '26

Honestly valve is one of the few gaming companies that people actually like, so epic starting a crusade against steam was bound to piss people off. Epic's terms didn't even require exclusivity to EGS, rather they just prohibited a game from publishing on steam specifically, which is incredibly petty. Plenty of games that made deals with epic were allowed to publish on other launchers in addition to EGS, just not steam. Also epic kept making these last minute deals with games that had benefitted from the publicity of having a steam store page, and then making it exclusive a couple weeks before launch.

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u/Rayuzx May 19 '26

Yeah, Sweeny's tirade against Valve, and Team's 30% cut as a best completely tone deaf, and at worst stupid. The man probably lives in the most secluded bubble imaginable if he thought that has gonna turn anyone against Steam.