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'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 6 months ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] Halosheep@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago

Oh no! Not the games I will never play because they're exclusive to EGS!

[-] beetus@lemmy.world -4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You do realize those are usually exclusive for only a year, right? So EGS pays them out for a year of exclusivity and then the devs are free to launch on steam and others.

The thing is, often if they don't get that first infusion of cash from a deal with EGS (or another investor) they don't get to complete or even launch the game at all. So it never would make it to the other markets.

[-] Halosheep@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

Usually by the time they've made it off EGS, I've forgotten they exist. There's been many sequels to games I loved that I forgot existed because of this.