/v/ - Video Games

It's more Tencent wanting to control the industry more than anything. Never trust the Chinese.

Valve has absolutely enormous coffers. All they have to do to ensure their survival is undercut these clowns and take the reduced profits until they crumble, and then jack them right up.

This going to lead to people saying fuck it and not bothering with either.

its very underdeveloped right now and probably right now only has the cut/share going for it

day it match Steam in functionality and user experience is when it takes any foothold, something everyone else is also failing

>>15862075

Indie devs so far are abandoning Steam for Epic Games.

>>15862124

That won't make it stop being shit.

>>15862124

>Indie devs

Good, fuck them. People have been bitching about the flood of shovelware garbage which is choking Steam for years now. Let them go be Epic's problem. Their Chinese overlords will feel right at home in that pile of zero-effort, knockoff, and barely functional garbage. What few games that actually end up being worth playing, let alone being good enough for most people to warrant a purchase, will find their way over to Steam the same as they find their way onto the Xbox and Playstation and Switch.

90% of indies are scammers, "learning as they go" single-dev amateurs, or pretentious artfags trying to pass off their low-effort atmospheric garbage as the some important milestone for the industry.

So, what's going to happen once the Fortnite bubble eventually bursts? because it looks like they are hedging all their bets on Fortnite raking in the cash for them to fund this experiment for years when we all know Fortnite will be replaced by something else in the near future.

>>15862167

They know Fortnite won't last. It's why they're making this move now. Epic's name is bigger than ever now thanks to this piece of shit, and they have to make their move into the game market or get shut out. Tencent has control of the Chink game market and they want to hold the west as well.

I'm sure Fortnite's nubmers dipped by a small amount when Red Dead came out, and they know it's going to slowly go on its way out. It's why it was announced and pushed out so quickly and seemingly so out of nowhere.

>>15862183

>>15862167

If you look into any knobslobbing piece about the game you'll notice that they stopped using the active subscriber numbers for a while now and shifted instead to "total subscribers". There's a reason for this.

>>15862167

They'll try to push for their store as much as possible while buying more companies that stumble into a goldmine like they did with riot and fortnite

>>15862146

As long as it's them and not the larger niche publishers. I hope WayForward doesn't leave.

>>15861887

They are getting cocky, they're using their propriety game engine, all them dollars that Fortnite is making them along with Tencent backing to take on Valve's position but at the same time pissing fucking people off, there's some retard developers who took their games from the other online stores or Steam to be fucking exclusives to theirs.

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>crossplatform roadmap

Sony is never going to let that shit fly.

>at epic, our goal is to cash in on the cheap chingchong money and get fat and greedy like gaben. no ut4 already confirmed, like gaben with hl3. more jabba the hutts is good for da business. pay up goys, and remember: no refunds.

>>15862167

They have made an absolutely absurd amount of money from Fortnite already. If the bubble popped today, I expect that they probably could still fund this shit for years. Not that they would, mind you.

To give you an idea

> Forbes reported that Fortnite brought in $126 million in February, $223 million in March and $296 million in April.

Fortnite has probably already made Epic billions, they just want to see how far it will go. I wouldn't be surprised if Epic becomes one of those immortal zombie companies like Nintendo, that no amount of flops will ever kill.

>>15862124

god, whatever will steam do without soulless shovelware pixelshit trash

i'm sure they'll have massive success on a platform that will have 0.0001% of the population steam has

>>15863297

Some Playstation exclusive indie trash are making a jump, fucking Journey was announced to be an exclusive in their store last week ago.

>>15862060

>>15862027

I saw a figure somewhere online (so of course it's real and true) that Steam takes like 60% of profits, whereas Epic will offer something like 80% to the developers. I agree that Steam can and will crush them like cockroaches on the margins but competing with Fornite on a user by user basis is going to be nearly impossible. How many retards do you think are only ever going to use the Epic store because that's "the Fortnite store"?

>>15863372

it's been 30% for ages, stop reading stupid shit from retarded indie devs (and even before the recent change in fees you could get a bigger cut). no one would use steam if it would be 60.

tbh I like the whole drama, shows which devs are retarded sellouts (looking at coffee stain, how many fortnite players they think are gonna buy satisfactory?).

all it's inevitably gonna take is some indie dev go full retard like they always do and clickbait articles cropping up everywhere that even normalfags take notice.

>>15862060

That's what they did initially anyway with the wacky savings events.

>>15863372

Steam takes 30% cut from revenue by default. Then they take another 5% to 10% from possible micro transaction store sales, due to small purchases potentially flooding them with payment processing costs.

On top of that potential 3rd party engine suppliers are taking their cuts as well.

Only likely positive results from Tencent Game Store I think that will be likely that some assetflips becoming EGS exclusives and Steams revenue cut to indie developers becoming more reasonable as their costs related to file hosting decreasing from what those used to be decade or so ago when their costs were actually higher.

>>15863662

>a clear focus on one eye. the occult elite is all over this game.

explain

>>15863785

good post

>>15863662

>a clear focus on one eye. the occult elite is all over this game.

<anon acts like a cowardly faggot and then proceeds to explain nothing.

Dude don't be a black sun faggot and not explain yourself .

>>15862075

>This Epic Store push in recent weeks absolutely reeks of chinese interference in western markets.

The vidya industry is one of the few industries left where the chinks aren't out-producing everyone with tones of shoddy products with questionable quality.

>>15863048

>>15862458

I'd like to see it expanded in to actual anti-propaganda material that explains to the chinks why their government is evil regarding these things, rather than just a list of keywords attempting to have their government block them from the discussion.

Maybe I'm just naive, thinking they are capable of reason.

>>15862124

>a bunch of games that aren't even released yet

<oh well guess i wont be playing that

Normalfags are very fickle if you push the right button, and "Do I need to open two bloated clients just to play fucking video games" is one of those buttons. Hence why EA still sells games on Steam.

>>15864177

Normalfags also buy PS4s just to play Fortnite.

>>15864181

You don't understand, anon. It's about convenience. Money is no object to the spending-addicted average fuckwad.

>>15864183

That's true, and if Epic has some big games they want PLUS Fortnite, that's the more convenient option. If this storefront got Red Dead 2, it would instantly have a substantial userbase.

>>15864189

The problem is that Epic hasn't made that many good games since UT2004. Fortnite just happened to be at right place at right time, it was shitty zombie shooter that they turned into free to play battle royale and somehow managed to capture all the audience. It happened overnight. Huge portion of their player base is kids and they might jump ship very fast if something more appealing to them appears.

Their only actually good products are their engines. They are trying to get indie developers to their stores with aggressive spending to get them to do exclusives for their games, so far they have managed to get some quality developers for one year exclusivity deals. It takes year or two see what kind of effect this has on PC-gaming market.

>>15864618

>No company is to big to fail. All can, and will, be brought down in due time.

That depends on how much money their investors want to get out of company on short term. If they get too greedy, it might collapse pretty fast.