Monday, May 10th 2021
Epic Games Offered Sony 200 Million USD For First-Party PlayStation Games PC Exclusivity
Sony was in discussions with Epic Games to bring six of their first-party titles to PC as Epic Games Store exclusives and was offered a 200 million USD minimum guarantee contract in return. These talks did not succeed with Sony bringing their exclusive titles such as Horizon Zero Dawn and Days Gone to both Steam and the Epic Games Store. Epic Games did succeed in securing some smaller titles as exclusives for their store including Predator: Hunting Grounds and ReadySet Heroes. Epic was also in discussions with Microsoft to bring first-party titles to the store as exclusives and had wanted to engage with Nintendo for a similar offer.
Source:
pcgamer
27 Comments on Epic Games Offered Sony 200 Million USD For First-Party PlayStation Games PC Exclusivity
Its not about defending practices that are abusive or manipulative. If you want thát to change, change capitalism. Its the way we designed the game to be played. Its pointless complaining people follow the rules we all agreed on. Even the principle of marketing is abusive and manipulative. The way we hide and turn a blind eye to modern slavery is another. It all serves to preserve a system that really can't be maintained without someone or something being damaged. For filthy rich you also need bottom-end poor - lots of them, it seems.
Its much better and more effective to point your attention to the actual way those rules develop over time. Capitalism and its system(s) is rapidly showing its problems lately but always has, really. No system is perfect. But its something we need to worry about, think about, and vote for people or ideas that make it better, or perhaps change it altogether.
The activism surrounding Epic is directed at the wrong players. And when people are told to read into the reality of things and make a well thought out decision, they're too busy upvoting and hashtagging the same bullshit as everyone else. Its the tyranny of stupidity, this, and if anything, thát is something that needs a fix right now. Its self destructive - in this case in terms of how publishers have invested in EGS and a lot of them are those that still budget big single player, real games without MTX. That's what you're really damaging here. Not EGS, not Steam, they'll just fish for another one.
Maybe the world is too complex so people are content worrying about insignificant BS like this rather than invest that energy into something that amounts to substance in the actual world. I don't know. But most of the internet sentiment of the day is so off the mark, its unreal. I think if you look back, quality has always been a very important factor. The things that truly last, ooze quality in some way or another. The things that get yearly sequels, that's the actual cesspool, and that's mostly stuck with big publishers that already run their own stores.
All we can really try as consumers is to funnel money, the highest possible amount (%) of what we spend on games, to the publishers and studios we like best. Its out of our hands, beyond that. In case of EGS: the publishers THEMSELVES are 50% of every deal that was made. This is telling - it tells us they also see a problem with Steam's distribution costs, and the exposure/value they get in return. And this is obvious because there's still only one Steam app but many more games to sell.