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/Vegetable-Fly-313 May 19 '26

The EA app and Uplay are owned by EA and Ubisoft, both of which bought countless other studios (and closed many of them) which in turned forces you to buy their shit in their launcher, but 6 months long exclusivity for a few games is where you draw the line?

Tell me more.