Valve Hits Disloyal Developers Who Choose Epic Games Store

https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroo…s-store/zb1118

Valve has changed the terms and conditions of the agreement with developers publishing their games on Steam. The adjustment is aimed at producers who after a short presence on Steam (pre-orders) decide to sign an exclusive agreement with Epic Games Store.

was about time

Article was purged. What did it say ?

Originally Posted by porcozaur
https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroo…s-store/zb1118

Valve has changed the terms and conditions of the agreement with developers publishing their games on Steam. The adjustment is aimed at producers who after a short presence on Steam (pre-orders) decide to sign an exclusive agreement with Epic Games Store.

was about time

While I have nothing against Epic Games, and have even bought a game from them, this is a smart and reasonable move on Steam's Part.
Maybe now Epic will bother to implement a reasonable UI on their storefront. Honestly, both Uplay and Origin have better UIs and its pretty sad of Epic to have an even worse one.

It was bound to happen, considering the stance Epic has taken against existing platforms.

"Disloyal" bahahahhahaha

Originally Posted by forgottenlor
While I have nothing against Epic Games, and have even bought a game from them, this is a smart and reasonable move on Steam's Part.
Maybe now Epic will bother to implement a reasonable UI on their storefront. Honestly, both Uplay and Origin have better UIs and its pretty sad of Epic to have an even worse one.

Yub, completely with you there. Just makes sense that they demand that the game is actually being published there after steam was used as advertisement platform, probably even development and press platform (which, if I remember correctly, is also not possible in epic store).

Fantastic video and present many of the reason I boycott epic.

Originally Posted by porcozaur

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Originally Posted by Carnifex
It was bound to happen, considering the stance Epic has taken against existing platforms.

Steam taking a stance against key sellers is also bound to happen - and has been bound to happen for many years now. Strange that it never does.

I also wouldn't be shocked if they limited forum posting to people who own the game on Steam.

I suspect key-seller is more of an issue with developer/publisher then the distribution (steam). The title of this is a bit misleading because this isn't really disloyal but scummy - if you use use to announce your game then you gotta sell the game here and that makes perfect senses.

Originally Posted by Zloth
Steam taking a stance against key sellers is also bound to happen - and has been bound to happen for many years now. Strange that it never does.

I also wouldn't be shocked if they limited forum posting to people who own the game on Steam.

As I understand it, Valve will hand out Steam keys for free to the publisher unless they start getting crazy. That means Steam isn't getting their 30%. Of course, the publisher might not be getting as much, either, if keys they are trying to sell to poorer areas are getting re-sold in richer areas.

If Steam started charging 30% for those keys, though, it would all be on the publisher.

Common sense update to their policy. But I still think their 30% cut is an obnoxious joke that deserves the competition.

It is a historical thing. When started 30% was a bargain relative previous cuts. Having said that today it is a bit high….

Originally Posted by Drithius
Common sense update to their policy. But I still think their 30% cut is an obnoxious joke that deserves the competition.