Epic Games and Steam have been facing off for months now, and things have gotten pretty cutthroat. Epic has convinced multiple developers to yank their upcoming (sometimes highly-anticipated) games from Steam in favor of timed Epic Games Store exclusivity, and the company doesn't appear to be stopping that trend anytime soon.
Now, in an attempt to cast Epic as the benevolent side in this platform war, the company's CEO – Tim Sweeney – has published a tweet promising a "retreat from exclusives" if Steam drops its 30 percent revenue cut to match Epic's 12 percent "without major strings attached."
Sweeney says such a move, if it occurred, would be a "glorious moment" in the history of PC gaming, adding that the effects would likely radiate to other digital distribution platforms, such as Ubisoft's Uplay, EA's Origin, or even CD Projekt Red's Good Old Games.
Considering he never kept his word on exclusives not happening again I would not believe him. Hes a worse lair than todd.
Nathaniel Torres
Calm your tits, Gabe.
Elijah Cox
Fuck epic. Fuck steam.
PlayStation store FTW
Levi Hall
I wish, then halflife 2 episode 3 would have been made by now, as well as 3.
Fuck soyny and ther censorship.
Sebastian Garcia
Why would Steam be this stupid? Every time Epic goes and pays off another developer for exclusive sales, they are shooting themselves in the foot.
Austin Perez
Why are they acting like they have the leverage. Nobody gives a fuck about epic store
James Walker
Got my own gripes with Steam/Valve, and plenty do, but to be fair they've been around for 15+ years and have proven mostly trustworthy despite some bumbled experiments here and there and overall just don't seem… well, evil. Epic, not so much. They both mine data. I suppose it's a matter of who you trust more. An American company with some history and clout in the industry as well as overall positive user trust, or the newcomer willing to dish out big cash to developers to remove their game from a platform that caters to a large chunk of PC gamers and in it's short existence has already been accused of data mining and sharing that data with Tencent, a Chinese company associated with the "social credit" system. The launcher is a piece of botnet garbage as well and nowhere near in a state to compete with Steam.
