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Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2
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We would never had an Alan Wake Remaster without Epic paying for it.
Dear PC gamers, please stop bitching about installing a second games launcher. If you wanted all games to only come out on a single launcher then you should have bought a console. Us console players are getting real sick of the endless bitching about Epic just because they tried to break Steam's monopoly.
Noone is a fan of exclusives but Epic's behaviour was explicitly to try and break Steam's entrenched monopoly and they legitimately offer far more favourable terms for developers. They've also spent hundreds of millions of dollars to break other monopolies like Apple and Google's. They are by no means the evil villains that PC Gamers make them out to be. The tactics they took with EGS were misguided but they've genuinely fought to level the playing field at the legislative level, they're a full tier better than an EA or Ubisoft who only ever try and squeeze as much profit as possible at every turn.
They should have spent those millions to fund development of a store that can actually compete with the competition and studios that produce games, which they then can sell on their own platform.
Instead they snatched up every new release on the way to Steam while still not being able to provide the basic necessities of a modern PC store front.
So why should I bother purchasing something from them? They have nothing to offer and actively make it harder for me to play games through their store with their anti-Steam Deck stance.
I'm not saying you should, I'm saying it doesn't make them villains or a bad company.
They made a mistake in their approach to the EGS, which they've pretty candidly talked about and admitted. But the end goal of EGS wasn't just to make them more money, they offer every developer more money when they publish there. The underlying motivation for creating EGS in the first place was the recognition that Valve does not need to be taking a 30% cut of every game sale to provide the services they provide.
I'm happy that Remedy can afford to self publish and that Anna Purna is willing to finance the project without publishing it, but I don't think Epic is a particularly bad publishing partner.
It makes their product shit