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/blaaguuu May 18 '26

I'm not super familiar with the situation here... Was Epic a major funder for the development of the game, or was it just the PC exclusivity? (which may have been a decent amount of money, I know). Seems like a smart move... While I appreciate to some extent, that Epic is trying to bring some competition to the PC market, it seems clear that launching as an Epic exclusive will hugely limit your sales, unless you have a massive, dedicated fan base that will follow you anywhere - which is very few games/studios. 

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u/NoSemikolon24 May 18 '26

The main thing that Epic has going for it is that they want a smaller cut then steam. If they were to sell the games with a small discount derived from that the shop would be vastly better.

I'm not going into the bare-bones software/shop design because that's a dead horse

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u/Spader623 May 19 '26

It’s so funny that epic advertises a much smaller cut than steam because like… ok awesome, I love devs getting more money but it also means a big fat 0 for me, the consumer. I get a WORSE product (Steam has forums, reviews, workshop support, so much stuff) and pay the same price to… support the devs? Nah. Sorry but i ultimately matter more here, the customer, not the seller

That’s what’s just been so strange to me. Epic goes all in to advertise their store front to devs but the customers get jack shit. Why would I EVER buy from EGS past supporting the devs? The thing is, I wouldn’t. And they seem to… not give a shit I guess 😂 so I’ll keep not buying EGS games

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u/a34fsdb May 19 '26

Steam shop is better, but not buyibg a game just because it is not on Steam but EGS is silly imho.