Monday, March 18th 2019
Borderlands 3 Possibly Exclusive to Epic Games Store on PC, Fans Worry Based on Old Tweet
Randy Pitchford is an interesting character even as game company CEOs go, with a.. checkered history in the last few months that go from funny all the way to controversial at minimum. As the head of Gearbox, he holds a lot of power when it comes to the Borderlands franchise, which itself teased a third numbered entry to be revealed at PAX East later this month. His social media activity has been a prime example of what not to do as a CEO owing to some personal and professional issues alike, which meant that this latest tease not only got people looking at more about the Borderlands franchise, but also his twitter account.
Users dug up an old tweet from December 2018 wherein he claimed he was "excited to support the Epic Games Store", and this was enough to initiate concerns that Borderlands 3 might be an exclusive to the Epic Games Store on the PC platform. Subsequent replies did nothing to quell these concerns, although there was nothing to confirm anything either. This may all be making a mountain out of an imaginary molehill, but it makes sense for Epic Games to go after Borderlands 3 to get more customers on their side- especially knowing that such exclusivity deals could be in the millions of US dollars. We will know more when the game is officially announced, so keep an eye out for that.
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Randy Pitchford on Twitter
Users dug up an old tweet from December 2018 wherein he claimed he was "excited to support the Epic Games Store", and this was enough to initiate concerns that Borderlands 3 might be an exclusive to the Epic Games Store on the PC platform. Subsequent replies did nothing to quell these concerns, although there was nothing to confirm anything either. This may all be making a mountain out of an imaginary molehill, but it makes sense for Epic Games to go after Borderlands 3 to get more customers on their side- especially knowing that such exclusivity deals could be in the millions of US dollars. We will know more when the game is officially announced, so keep an eye out for that.
109 Comments on Borderlands 3 Possibly Exclusive to Epic Games Store on PC, Fans Worry Based on Old Tweet
I think it has more to do with Steam Fanboyism and bandwagon jumping for 85% of people complaining than the points you listed above seriously. .....Unless it has a game that I want to play that's only available there, and I'm not throwing my toys out of the pram because it's not on Steam? btw i meant "game client" when i said "launcher".
Windows 10 1803 OPTIMIZATION Guide For GAMERS & POWER USERS! There is fair number of ppl who want to join in on hate.
Take for example YT comments spamming under diablo immortal trailer.
Either that or EGS has no features whatsoever and is thrashy, so the only reason Id ever consider installing is by being forced to (like in Borderlands 3 example).
Thats why I have this thrash-of-a-store Origin installed.
To be able to play Dragon Age, nothing more.
Is this really what You guys want?
Also, do you really buy a game to get the gimmicky acheivements or chat your friends in the game (you can do this with Discord anyway, or even add the game to steam lol), make wish list,etc, ec blah blah.......IDK about you guys, but when I buy a game I kinda just wanna, you know, play the game? Which the Epic client does perfectly well.
This is a huuuge case of 'mountain out of a molehill' by whinging Steam fanboys.
Unpopular opinion; It's actually good that Deep Silver took the game off steam, why? because steam charge a huge cut of each sale, and with the Epic store, the dev gets more money for the product they worked so hard to create. It's the same price, too: more of the £69.99 I paid for the Gold edition -on the Epic store- is going to 4A, not lining Gabe's pocket. if it were more expensive I would understand the outrage. But it's not, so un-twist your panties and stop having a tantrum.
Oh and I haven't had my identity stolen, no one's turned up at my house to try and kill me yet, etc.
btw Discord is another app to run. How about each game developer have their own store?
So I can download 350+ stores for my 350+ games. On steam they have access to millions of users from early 2000s.
On EGS they have thousands of fortnite kids.
(all due respect to fortnite, I love the game. Thanks to its existance CSGO servers are free of kids) yet lol
Obsidian Entertainment announced that their new game The Outer Worlds will be an exclusive on the Epic Store and the Microsoft Store for 1 year. Remedy Entertainment has said that their game Control will be an exclusive on the Epic Store as well.
Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls and Detroit: Become Human will be also coming exclusively on Epic’s store.
This will be quite the dilemma for me and many others. At this point people are going to have to decide if they are going to consistently forego AAA releases or go ahead and enjoy themselves.
Deep Silver and Epic announced that Metro Exodus sold 2.5 times better on the Epic Store than Last Light did on Steam. So I guess we have our answer to what a lot of people are doing. They are signing up for an Epic Store account it seems.
Valve is going to have to learn to compete or Steam will lose a lot of big games...and market share.
Nice try tho.
I use the Discord Platform. I eat the Kellog's Platform. Get with the times bruh.
Now for transparency, I'm an indy game dev. Both of these are platforms looking for my content ( not just mine, don't get me wrong).
Valve want to take 30% of my income before I pay any other bills, engine rights, content creation bills and such. Now ok it slides, they only want that for the first 10 mil made. Then they want 25% of the next 40 mil and then 20% of everything after 50mil. Then if I use their engine they still want paying another 15% on top of everything regardless. Epic, on the other hand, want a 12% flat rate. Then if I use their engine they don't charge the 5% fee for that. They don't want paying twice which valve do.
How is that for a competitive reason to avoid steam?
Now from a game buying perspective, which I also am. I love games and metro is by far my all time favourite single player series. I want the people whose work I enjoy to profit from my money. I want my money to go to improving the game or funding more. If that means using origin, uplay or in this case epics store so be it.
Valve used to be the shit. 12/15 years ago they made the best games in the world in my eyes. They used that to leverage steam and forced the PC gaming world into its walled garden. Now today they no longer make games as they get a pretty nice chunk of all the games they sell.
Now it has plus points too, they took the best parts from xfire (showing my age now xD) and integrated it into the game delivery system. It made pc gaming easier for gamers, no doubt. But that focus soon shifted to one that just made them money. Not the people making the contents, not savings for those spending the money....
Now look at steam, they are reacting as we speak. The GUI update is a knee jerk reaction. No doubt they will follow suit with things too, better deals for Devs, maybe even with improved sdks or possibly grants too? Who knows where it will end.
For me I will buy my games where I know the people making it get the best deal. Right now it's epic, maybe tomorrow it will be steam or discord or some new one?