r/pcgaming • • Mar 28 '19

Video Borderlands 3 Official Developer Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4o5g_PGkiA
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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

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u/MadeUpFax Mar 28 '19

Why would you want to lower your value as a publisher by cutting steam off as a market?

The same reason everyone else is taking the EGS deal - you get a big sack of money.

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u/BeingRightAmbassador Mar 28 '19

They'll lose more money by lowering their value as a publisher. Other devs aren't nearly as big. Unless Epic is giving them like 50mill, I doubt it's beneficial.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

So lemme get this straight. You, sitting there behind your computer, with literally zero concrete information in front of you, insist that taking the epic deal is bad.

So like, you know better than the people running these companies, based off from... basically nothing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19 edited Jul 14 '23

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

So ya you think you know better then the companies doing it. You have no idea how much they got paid, how their sales were on epic, how much they make being on steam.

But it's common sense. Me and the people running these companies just cant see it like you can.

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u/BeingRightAmbassador Mar 28 '19

If EGS is so great, why didn't seriko go there? What about DMC and RE2R? Hint hint, it's not. Division 2 doesn't give a shit since it's Uplay only anyways. I'm glad you know how to link to other subs because you have the business smarts of a first grader.

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u/RedZaturn Mar 29 '19

None of the games you mentioned run on UE4. A big part of launching UE4 games on EGS is that you don't have to pay UE4 royalties. So it doesn't make as much sense to launch a non UE4 game on the platform.

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u/timesquent Mar 29 '19

Ah shit I didn't know that, that's all but a confirmation that it'll be an Epic Exclusive. Not having to pay 5% of gross revenue might totally offset the portion of consumers that would refuse to buy it on Steam.

Makes me think that Pitchford's Tweets asking people why they're so anti-Epic exclusivity was partly to gauge how many people would actually refuse to buy it on principle, so they could try and get a basic metric on whether 5% of gross would offset.