Steam Cancellations will be "up to developers and publishers" says Epic Games Head

[grec]

Epic do have a history of providing developers Unreal Dev grants or funding to support the use of their technology when they see potential, and have many support or grant schemes going on, but there's nothing to suggest they give established cross-store PC devs/publishers funding to snag titles off Steam, though some devs would likely expect support for the process of converting from Steams infrastructure quickly where that applies, particularly as its curated nature so far has meant quite tight integration in some aspects.

Epic store isn't notably smaller than Steam anymore, we don't have directly comparable figures but Epic Store has 85mil users in its 4ish months of existence vs Steam's 90mil monthly users. It does seem to just be these fringe hardcore gaming communities still holding out.

 

[SCO77YBOY]

And here is the perfect example I refer to.

Its like the Nvidia fan who will pay twice the price of a gPU just because he dislikes AMD allowing Nvidia to continue their shocking practise.

Steam will never improve their practices as long as the drones continue to wander at their feet.

haha, love it on here

I don't have a problem with another company giving steam a run for its money.
my problem is with epic.I won't install it on my pc. end of.
I will just buy my games on another platform.

I'am also not a fanboy, steam, Nvidia, Xbox, PlayStation or pc, I play games cos i enjoy playing them regardless of the platform.

 

[Greenback]

Epic do have a history of providing developers Unreal Dev grants or funding to support the use of their technology when they see potential, and have many support or grant schemes going on, but there's nothing to suggest they give established cross-store PC devs/publishers funding to snag titles off Steam, though some devs would likely expect support for the process of converting from Steams infrastructure quickly where that applies, particularly as its curated nature so far has meant quite tight integration in some aspects.

Epic store isn't notably smaller than Steam anymore, we don't have directly comparable figures but Epic Store has 85mil users in its 4ish months of existence vs Steam's 90mil monthly users. It does seem to just be these fringe hardcore gaming communities still holding out.

How many of them are just Fortnight players and go back to steam for all other games, If I recall Fortnight had 70 million players when that's all that was on the epic store

 

[grec]

Regardless that's 70mil people who were happy to have the launcher installed on their PC and wouldn't have much issue installing a game via it if it's the only place they can install said game from as they have already done it at least once before. Also any Unreal Engine developer(It's free and easy to dip your toes into and even very usable for more serious 3D interactive applications) has also had the Epic launcher installed on their PC already.

 

[WYP]

haha, love it on here

I don't have a problem with another company giving steam a run for its money.
my problem is with epic.I won't install it on my pc. end of.
I will just buy my games on another platform.

I'am also not a fanboy, steam, Nvidia, Xbox, PlayStation or pc, I play games cos i enjoy playing them regardless of the platform.

May I ask what your problem with Epic Games is specifically? Surely if you don't want Epic on your PC you will need to never play an Unreal Engine game ever again? Or are you just talking about the Epic Client?

 

[Warchild]

May I ask what your problem with Epic Games is specifically? Surely if you don't want Epic on your PC you will need to never play an Unreal Engine game ever again? Or are you just talking about the Epic Client?

its the FotM to hate on Epic.