Epic paid them a bunch of money for the exclusivity. Money they needed to produce the game. Remedy needs the money upfront. And Epic takes less of a cut than Steam.
Profit until the sales dry up. If potential players haven’t bought the game at that point because of platform-related reasons, they won’t likely be convinced otherwise.
Once that happens, release the title on all other platforms.
Profit more.
Sony’s had great success when they started bringing first-party titles to PC. Square is feeling the squeeze after the disappointing sales of the FFVII remakes. DARQ’s developer rejected third-party exclusivity and was met with praise and sales exceeding expectations.
The fact is, some people will never consider buying on EGS. Whether their reasons are legitimate or not is irrelevant. It is only by the choice of one man overgrown man-child that both Epic and Remedy are kept from greater sales and greater profits.
If I huff enough copium, I can sometimes convince myself that they’re just stupid.
Unfortunately, the mandatory PSN requirement probably yields them more profit (through some means) than direct sales would from the non-PSN regions.
Another possibility is something I heard mentioned regarding Nvidia: Japanese and Far-Eastern businesses often favor control over maximized profits, and mandatory PSN might be a way of exercising this control. Just a hypothesis though.
If they want to exercise more control over the gamers who buy their games, they could let more countries sign up for the PSN. At the very least all of the countries in the EU should be able to make an account.
I still have Helldivers 2 in my steam account even though I can’t even look at the steam store for it.
Epic paid them a bunch of money for the exclusivity. Money they needed to produce the game. Remedy needs the money upfront. And Epic takes less of a cut than Steam.
I feel like you’re mad at the wrong people?
The formula goes like this:
Sony’s had great success when they started bringing first-party titles to PC. Square is feeling the squeeze after the disappointing sales of the FFVII remakes. DARQ’s developer rejected third-party exclusivity and was met with praise and sales exceeding expectations.
The fact is, some people will never consider buying on EGS. Whether their reasons are legitimate or not is irrelevant. It is only by the choice of one
manovergrown man-child that both Epic and Remedy are kept from greater sales and greater profits.Sony releasing games on PC yet region locking them to countries with PSN access is beyond absurd.
It’s almost like they hate money.
If I huff enough copium, I can sometimes convince myself that they’re just stupid.
Unfortunately, the mandatory PSN requirement probably yields them more profit (through some means) than direct sales would from the non-PSN regions.
Another possibility is something I heard mentioned regarding Nvidia: Japanese and Far-Eastern businesses often favor control over maximized profits, and mandatory PSN might be a way of exercising this control. Just a hypothesis though.
If they want to exercise more control over the gamers who buy their games, they could let more countries sign up for the PSN. At the very least all of the countries in the EU should be able to make an account.
I still have Helldivers 2 in my steam account even though I can’t even look at the steam store for it.