Had no interest in 1 or 2 so 3 will be exclusive to them and they can keep it.Thoughts on it,couldn't care less.

100% agree .

No surprise. But .. meh. Not like it had Steam preorders or abused crowdfunders trust.

Now hold on up. Phasmid, you have a fundamental misunderstand of the situation. Half-life and EA created titles are first-party games respectively made by the companies (Valve and EA) themselves. While it's sucky, I guess they do have a right to make it exclusive to their own digital stores. Borderlands is not created by Epic games. It is made by Gearbox and published under 2k games. Epic is trying to force other people's titles to be exclusive to their own store. This is what people dislike. Epic messing with the eco-system and taking away consumer choices from the gaming public.

Unless this one is going to be Tiny Tina 3: Return to Borderlands or something similar I'll probably be fine for a year

With more exclusive games on Epic people get more and more pissed with it and start boycott it as store. And can result as stop using this aggressive strategy eventually.

Yeah . I remember how Steam collapsed when we started to boycott because of the $1=1€ thing .
Come on people . Not everyone whining on the internet because of the Epic store . Grow up and get over it .

Yeah, I did rather imply that Epic made Borderlands there, consequence of writing too quickly. It was meant to be more about getting a big broad appeal exclusive- a HL2 or a ME3- to drive uptake and diversify away from Fortnite which BL3 would be perfect for. Gearbox and Epic have a pretty close relationship and I'd be very surprised if it didn't happen. With all respect to the Metro Exoduses and Phoenix Points of the world they aren't going to diversify Epic Store's userbase away from Fortnite all that much, Borderlands should.

As for exclusivity in general a lot of games have been exclusive to here at one point with timed exclusivity. Diablo is at the moment, the Infinity Engine games were as was System Shock 2. End of the day I don't see that as being significantly different from Epic doing the same, or Steam leveraging its large userbase and other advantages to get exclusives. The company making the games has the right to offer it for sale however they want and with the best terms they can get, so long as it complies with the law; ultimately it's up to the customer to decide whether to actually buy or not.

There's a difference between something being exclusive because the developer chooses to only release it in one place (maybe because they think it's a better fit, like classic games here, or because it's easier for them, like Steamworks providing a handy framework), and a developer saying "These guys gave us a bag of cash to hold our game hostage and pretend this is wonderful news that everyone should be happy about!"

Both are bad, but to me, the former is just disappointing, the latter is an insult.

I hate <Insert platform>, but it's exclusively offering <insert game title>, which I want. BOOOO! EXCLUSIVES ARE BAD!

Seriously though, in some deep dark hole there is the same argument getting thrown around about GOG getting Diablo exclusively.

Okay.

How about we honor these exclusives? Listen.

We simply cease mentioning them entirely. If they want to be exclusive to Steam, Epic, whatever, then we should honor these decisions by simply letting discussions of that game exclusive to the related communities. I think that's what the developers want, so let's grant them that.

More threads are good for gaming. Like more clients. Lol ;)

I will buy it on release and I don't fucking care on which client it is or if it's an exclusive or whatever.
1 was very good but 2 was a real masterpiece.

The same one where I pushed my soul?