What about being a Epic Games Store exclusive? – SnowRunner
My opinion is that you have a great franchise of a game here. First was SpinTires and after this it followed an even better game, MudRunner, after talking about this new game SnowRunner (btw. it looks awesome) I think that this game studio is making a mistake with making it an Epic Games Store exclusive. I understand that you are getting a bigger percentage of money from EGS than Steam, but I’m almost certain that your sales of the game will be cut in half, if not more.
A lot of people are tied to just one platform, Steam, it has well over 1 billion accounts registered and 85 million monthly active account, compared to EGS which has all together 85 million registered accounts, and I don’t know the exact number, but my guess is that 84 million registered accounts that EGS has, is all about Fortnite, and many people, including me, think that Fortnite era has ended. While Steam is like universal PC game platform, people are registering to Steam for many different games, not only one game.
An other reason why I think this is a mistake, I understand games like Satisfactory, it was an original new game launched as a EGS exclusive, but you are changing platform, from Steam to EGS in middle of a franchise. I enjoyed both your games, SpinTires and MudRunner, met there a lot of people, and talked with them how they feel about this making a EGS exclusive, and the simple answer is, majority of them does not want to change their personal platform for this game.
Basically, you are just splitting PC gaming community a bit more, even though SnowRunner looks better than your previous games, I think that it will not be as successful as previous games, and all at the cost of changing the platform of the game.
All of the above is just my opinion on this, nothing else.
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I agree with you and modders don’t let it! I talked to several of us about making a special media.zip. that will be better and more accurate than ever. showing that players’ needs must be kept in mind. that gamers see more in the game than studios would think!
this media.zip is said to contain many more popular tracks and vehicles. physics would be accomplished with much better scripts (lua) which also affect templates. for vehicles, every detail will be the most elaborate ever and integrate every possible sound and animation in high quality. plans include a dx10 / 11 hd version with high quality. not impossible, here too, many modders have proven that they can transcend borders.
we may not be able to rewrite the engine and have no right to infringe, but with mods we can show them something that will remain memorable. I’ve had examples of my childhood games (nfs, carmageddon, doom, duke3d, etc …). it was a lot of drag as someone made a doom game on a logitech keyboards LCD : d.
I agree with you. All epic has done is split pc gaming community, and made gamers resent epic. Hopefully spintires snowrunner, and borderlands 3 come to steam. I will be waiting for the games to come to steam to buy
Epic games already F***ed me. bought the pree order 2 days ago, They didn’t give me an email, didn’t give me a confirmation or a code,, but they took my money as soon as they could.. Tried to send them a help email that night but yet again another website that haven’t anything of the issue your facing in their so called help section. I got an email back today about slower than usual requests but was also signed by one of their help agents,, kinda stupid to msg me days later and not give me any type of help or advise when you obviously checked the request ticket , Hell,, Sonys online chat took 5 minutes last week when someone hacked my store and stole money outta my account got my account sorted and sent me a refund. All i can say is f*** epic games especially when they try to force you to download that horrid sloppy pile of dog poo “fortnite” . Trash just like epic games. HELL ill give steam props over these guys any day…