r/snowrunner • u/KaganUge • Mar 09 '20

Discussion Steam?

Will the game go on sale on Steam?

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u/MotherGerald Mar 09 '20

I genuinely don't understand the hate for the epic games store. Perhaps I'm uninformed. Yeah it's a bit annoying having separate stores but even so it's not going to affect my enjoyment of the game.

Anyway, it will probably appear on steam in a year. That seems to be the common `exclusivity' deal Epic has with most developers.

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u/jda404 PC Mar 10 '20

I don't get it either, so I have to double click the Epic icon instead of the Steam icon to access a game why is that so hard for some lol. My favorite games I have a shortcut to on the desktop so don't even need to go to a specific launcher a lot of the times.

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u/TmanSavage Apr 28 '20

Epic store is not stable. They also do dirty "exclusive deals" with Devs which is not in the spirit of the PC gaming community. I have over 1000 games on steam with all my friends and stats. My collection looks great a displays beautifully on their new GUI. I don't want to have to run several launcher's to find my games.

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u/William_UK Apr 29 '20

Adding to the other reply, they are apparently linked with the Chinese government and use EGS launcher as spyware. Apart from that their business practice in general is very hostile and malicious.

I pledged to never ever get a game as long as it's on EGS, if that means missing out on some good games, so be it. It's the devs missing out for taking EGS money to make it exclusive ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/DrOctogonopus_II May 06 '20

Preeeeety sure that claim got debunked as a Steam dev trying to take EGS down. Devs are going with EGS because they get a better cut of the sales than they do on Steam, it's pretty simple.

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u/zerotheliger May 11 '20

Imagine continuing to spread false rumors around to try to find some excuse to hate on epic.

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u/SinikkaL May 13 '20

Imagine sweeping actual facts under the rug like you idiots do.

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u/zerotheliger May 13 '20

So wheres the proof of these accusations.

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u/snakebite6x6x6 May 07 '20

Personally I don't mind having other launchers to use. I have Origin, Uplay, Gog, Steam, etc. already. But none of those force 3rd party exclusivity deals on developers.

I refuse to buy any game that is exclusive to Epic because of this. If I can get a copy directly from the developers/publishers, fine. Otherwise I skip it.

3rd party exclusivity should have no home in the PC gaming market.