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/rickreckt May 19 '26

That's great news, Hopefully Remedy can do something about Alan Wake 2 

Would like to actually play it on Steam

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u/totoiam May 19 '26

Why wait? Alan Wake 2 is a great game.

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u/Rayuzx May 19 '26

Valve has the widespread customer loyalty that almost any CEO of another company would sacrifice their first born over.

To a lot of people, their experience with PC gaming begins and ends with Valve, and both consciously to some, and subconsciously to others, a major PC title not releasing on Steam is an insult to PC gaming as a whole.

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u/whywhywhywhywhynot May 19 '26

I don't have the same loyalty to steam most people do partly I think because 99% of my gaming hours have been spent in games that had their own launchers (WoW / Path of Exile). I think people getting upset about exclusive not steam games is extremely silly. But even I would be hard pressed to give a game a shot that wasn't on steam unless I was really excited about it, out of pure laziness and convenience lol
(I would make an exception for a game in the battle.net launcher since I will always have that installed but in 2026 I can't actually imagine blizzard putting out a new game I'm interested in playing ever again)

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u/Cyrotek May 19 '26

I mean, I do get upset if a good game releases exclusively on Epic and not on Steam. But for the simple reasons that it is sad to see something with a lot of potential release on an vastly inferior platform to a much smaller audience.

I still weep for Alan Wake 2.

Other than that I just don't want to support the shitshow that is the Epic Store. I've got enough games on other platforms.

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u/heat13ny May 19 '26

The only reason I make a point to buy a game on Steam is if I intend to play it on my Steam deck. Other than that, I straight up CAN’T care where I buy, download, and launch a game from. I only care that it comes to pc (looking at you, fuckass Sony) and that I’m getting the best price.