"Developers will decide who wins the game store wars, not consumers" Epic's Tim Sweeney.

https://www.thegamer.com/epic-boss-says-developers-win-game-store-wars-not-consumers/

Customers are not interested in leaving money to EGS & EGS faces low sales.

I've noticed that too, you know. But I'm not to worried about GOG, there seems to be a really dedicated userbase here, it's why they are here and not on Steam. As for Epic, they may be playing a high-stakes game (no pun intended). Tencent aside, they have relied on Fortnight both for customer base and income, and now there is Apex, challenging Fortnight. The pressure is pretty high on the Epic Store to succeed.

I'll be interested to see how things play out.

Everyone will, but EGS is showing middle finger to cosumers and they are supposed to buy these exclusive titles.

Is this some sort of promo?

Very true but often you'll get a vocal group and then people just go out and buy the thing/service anyway and make it successful.

Don't think that anyone has pointed it out, but it isn't actually Epic Store exclusive since it's also coming to the Win10 store (example source). I know most won't see that as any better, but it isn't an exclusive as stated in the title. IIRC all the other games announced as Epic Store 'exclusives' today are on Win10 store as well too.

Realistically TOW was not going to be a day 1 release here with a 2k subsidiary as a publisher anyway.

GOG is a niche within market. That right now is a competitive advantage to keep working, war isn´t against GOG. There will be more games that aren´t here on day 1, but this doesn´t have to affect GOG, because that´s always been the case. But not in Steam case. The GOG consumer has another profile. For me GOG have always priority, but if the game isn´t here, I buy somewhere if really want to play that game or I wait a couple of month to buy here. In case of GOG more can affect the 12% cut than a couple of temporary exclusives more, I think.

I have words for this but my post would just be a bunch of redacted statements after a language filter.

Since when is a game on Epic, Win 10 Store, Xbox and PS4 classed as an exclusive? So the new definition of exclusive is "not on Steam"?

Anyway, I'll wait 6 months until it comes onto Xbox Game Pass, then I'll play it for nothing when I cash in my MS rewards points. And yes I know I won't ownz it, but I'm old and care more about what I experience not what I ownz. Renting is awesome.

Yeah. Well. I guess gog is better then the Microsoft store which also sells Outer Worlds but all the world screams "epic exclusive". Can't remember it having been that bad ever for gog. I would be willing to bet a 5 bucks game that if it had been announced for epic and gog instead epic and MS the "exclusive" yells would had been significantly less too if at all (sure; steam ppl would be still pissed; they would just choose other words to express themselves).

Fanboyish posts that are so utterly brainkilling retarded that the only logical conclusion could be that the person is hired to shine as the lowest example of humanity is nothing new. See "buying on gog is piracy" mindsets on steam since the dawn of gog. They are either special people that need our help (be a bit compassionate man!) or hired to made been fun of. Its tough because if its the former you would have made fun of a mentally disabled and thats not cool; so be sure what it is before doing so.

What I could see with this store war is that gog might get away with releasing Cyberpunk 2077 exclusive here on gog. Before Epic started to be the bad example I would have never seen this possibility.

I agree. But I also think that GOG needs to double down on old games. There are still a lot of those present on Steam but not on GOG. Most people that have stuck with GOG are here because of no-DRM and old games. GOG needs to be the best place forever for getting old games legally. That has been personally the draw for me and I am sure for a lot if not most people here

I'm a patient man and I can wait. So I will either wait a year or more for the game to come to Steam and then a 50% off sale to punish them for this stunt or I will wait for Epic Store to fix their storefront and their privacy settings and also to untie themselves from the Chinese government via Tencent. I will not give my private info to China.

Or maybe I will get the game on PS4 since this move isn't really from Obsidian but the publisher. Either way it's a sad move that being a gamer these days is so tricky.