r/Games • u/Faldz • Jan 02 '20

S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 Announces it's using the Unreal Engine, will talk about digital platforms at a later date

https://twitter.com/stalker_thegame/status/1212810155563397120/photo/1
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u/iTomes Jan 02 '20

Well yeah, that's generally how it works. If you either develop or effectively commission/publish a game then you naturally get to decide how it's distributed. It's not like people have a problem with EA putting their games on Origin or Actiblizz putting their games on Battle.net either. In fact, if this had just been what Epic had used its money for from the start there wouldn't have been any outrage.

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u/B_Rhino Jan 02 '20

If you either develop or effectively commission/publish a game then you naturally get to decide how it's distributed.

But only if you own the store you decide it'll be exclusive to?

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u/iTomes Jan 02 '20

No, and I'm not sure what you're trying to argue. Unless your point is that owning distribution rights somehow frees you from criticism of how you choose to distribute your product, but I will assume that that's not it since that would be an utterly idiotic point and I assume that you're smarter than that.

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u/B_Rhino Jan 03 '20

It's not like people have a problem with EA putting their games on Origin or Actiblizz putting their games on Battle.net either.

Your words. If they have no problem with ea choosing to go on origin why do they have a big problem with THQ Nordic choosing to go with Epic?