Comment on Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee

• BigVault@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who is they?

  The publishers could already set the prices lower on EGS by default with the 18% difference being put in consumers pockets making EGS a more enticing place to buy games for now, instead, they want to sell games the same price on EGS vs all other stores they offer titles on pocketing the difference.

  EGS Exclusives even launch at the standard pricing despite the money they used to receive up front from Epic. None of this grandstanding is a benefit to me as a consumer and I won't give a fuck in supporting Epic/Tim until it is.

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  • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Epic, of course.

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  • falsem@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Man, just imagine the shitstorm if a game launched at $50 on Epic, then a year later increased prices to $62 everywhere due to Steam's terms and conditions so that the dev could maintain the same profit from steam.

    Of course that will never happen because there's zero consumer benefit and instead they just launch at $60 on Epic. If that did happen and the savings were benefiting the consumer then Epic might have a point.

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