Epic’s drive to make a success of its PC game store has annoyed plenty of Steam lovers – but it’s boom time for the developers whose games are snapped up as exclusives.
Epic has of course pumped millions of dollars into buying timed exclusivity for games to launch on its Store instead of rival Steam – an approach Epic boss Tim Sweeney has insisted is currently the only way to make a dent on Valve’s monopoly.
It’s easy to see why developers would play ball with Epic: money talks, after all. But you don’t get many saying as much on the record. Rebellion’s Jason Kingsley, though, who has signed an exclusivity deal with Epic for the PC version of the upcoming Zombie Army 4, was perfectly comfortable calling it like it is in a recent interview.
Source: Eurogamer A refreshingly honest developer tells it like it is when it comes to Epic store exclusivity