Outer Worlds Epic store exclusive

Originally Posted by ToddMcF2002
Oh one less game to worry about. Looked pretty dull anyway

If you are referring on Metro Exodus then I agree.
On a serious note, so far there is absolutely nothing on Epic Store I'd eagerly want to buy and their freebies were not something I'd bother to install. However…

I'm definetly buying Outer Worlds. I'm not touching Microsoft's store which leaves Epic store as another option - that's fine by me.

A few other games are listed as future temporary exclusives - Along with Detroit, Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls. The other day Detroit was mentioned in another thread, I've heard about that game before but was not aware it's Nintendo Gameboy game so let's say I'm mildly interested and will buy it if there is nothing better at the market when it gets released. Of course, first I need clarification the port is not trying to force people into buying mushrooms.
Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls? Never heard.

Originally Posted by joxer
Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls? Never heard.

Adventure games similar to Life is Strange, maybe with a bit more actual action though. Never played them, just heard of them and saw some video back in the days (Heavy Rain released in 2010).

Had some stuff to do yesterday (no, not watching next korean soap! ) so wasn't even aware of snowball all over internet. Everyone is talking about Epic Store and everyone's mother is making comments - some love it as from of competition, some don't care as long as games aren't held hostage by platform (read: exclusive for sakes of selling outdated hardware), some are threatening by "skidrow store" lol

But I think these early reactions are irrelevant, what we should care about is this:
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-epic-sto…o-tim-sweeney/

The Epic Store won't accept 'crappy games,' says Tim Sweeney

"We'll have a quality standard that doesn't accept crappy games," he said. "We'll accept reasonably good quality games, of any scale, whether small indie games to huge triple-A games, and we'll take everything up to, like, an R-rated movie or an M-rated game. A GTA game would be fine to us, but Epic's not going to distribute porn games or bloatware or asset flips, or any sort of thing that's meant to shock players. The PC's an open platform and if we don't distribute it in our store you can still reach consumers directly."
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"We're not going to have something like the console certification process involved in releasing a game," said Sweeney when I asked how Epic would apply this quality standard. "But I think we'll be aware of the quality of what's submitted prior to making a decision to list it in the store—somehow."

Some would expect me to put it in bs thread, but I just can't.
Of course, the perfect store is a store that doesn't sell any mmo and a store that has zero games with microtransactions. Such store doesn't exist - no, not even GOG is immune (gwent).

In a world where you can't choose to pay for a full game and play it fully or not pay once for everything but unlock content through microtransactions, sadly, it's not possible to have a store I'd call an ultimate fair business.
Thus if I kicked the statement above in bs thread, any statement about other stores should go there too which is kinda pointless.

I find that statement very important for two reasons.
Obviously, Epic store doesn't care about Origin, uPlay, GOG, RSC, Battle.net nor Beth store - their "opponent" is Steam. Steam that is flooded with shovelware and halfdone so called early access scams although Greenlight was shut down.
Another reason is refusal to do console certification process. That process on consoles is only milking money from developers on every game patch and it never guaranteed the game people are buying is not crap.

Yeah, just doing some basic quality curation is a big plus, IMO. Steam is not so much like a good shop, but wandering around a giant warehouse where people are free to leave fresh turds on the shelves.

The Epic Store won't accept 'crappy games,' says Tim Sweeney

Not only will they accept them, they’ll make them exclusives.

Originally Posted by bjon045
It uses your microsoft account and if you are on windows 10 it is included in the OS. It gets added to your library and downloaded when you want to play it - much like any other online game store.

Interesting. So for me it would actually be less intrusive than existing stores/clients, as I'm already logged in anyway. Perhaps Outer Worlds will be my first such game then. Time will tell.

Originally Posted by Maylander
Interesting. So for me it would actually be less intrusive than existing stores/clients, as I'm already logged in anyway. Perhaps Outer Worlds will be my first such game then. Time will tell.

Any game bought on the windows store is a Universal App. It's not required to run a launcher at least, but you will need the latest windows version to run the game.

Outer Worlds and Control both look like games I'll want to play (at least they look good before any reviews happen). The Epic exclusive isn't really going to hurt me a lot, though, as I tend to wait a year+ to play a game anyway.

Originally Posted by Couchpotato
Any game bought on the windows store is a Universal App. It's not required to run a launcher at least, but you will need the latest windows version to run the game.

Not… really. Though maybe kinda. You can put normal desktop applications on the Windows Store but Microsoft might be doing some sort of UWP wrapper around them or some such. Docs are here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win…op-to-uwp-root

Originally Posted by Maylander
Interesting. So for me it would actually be less intrusive than existing stores/clients, as I'm already logged in anyway. Perhaps Outer Worlds will be my first such game then. Time will tell.

Yep, same for me.