Epic Games Begins Moving its Games Off Steam and on to its Own Store Platform

[moproblems99]

Remind me to buy stock in Reynolds and other tinfoil manufacturers this holiday season.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Digging deeper: People Can Fly released Bulletstorm via EA in 2011, they were bought by Epic Games becoming Epic Games Poland in 2012, they went back to independent under the name People Can Fly in 2015, and they created the Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition via Gearbox Publishing in 2017.

Yeah, it was a big legal fight to get the studio out from under Epic and keep the rights to Bulletstorm. They improved Bulletstorm and released as Full Clip Edition to help fund future projects. The Gearbox relationship is a much better relationship for People Can Fly than Epic was.

@coonbro come on man, you are living in the past. You will end up with nothing but 20 year old games if you keep up with that mentality. Are you sure you don’t wear tinfoil clothing?

Let me give you a solution. Check out GOG. Lots of new and recent games on there too, not just old. Buy games, and download them, don’t install their Galaxy client.

You can then at least play newer games without having to go to the internet after install, play them from a shortcut, and they will always be yours. This should bring you into the current time period, and still counter some of your worries.

 

[Readlight]

These old unreal games ar garbage and works also like that

 

[R-T-B]

not seeing that at all I got games way older then that [but good try ]

Not a "try." It's a fact. The dyes used have a shelf life. The best dyes die in about 40 years (older CDROM media tended to use these). DVDs and blurays are worse. It averages out to about 20-30 years.

Let me give you a solution. Check out GOG.

Best answer.

without limitation

In the context of steam. You've been told this before. But feel free to keep playing web-lawyer.

 

[JaymondoGB]

I dont think they are free to keep, just free to play them between those dates, but I hope there wrong, Subnautica is one of the best games you will ever play.

 

[rtwjunkie]

I dont think they are free to keep, just free to play them between those dates, but I hope there wrong, Subnautica is one of the best games you will ever play.

Who are you referring to?

 

[StrayKAT]

Who are you referring to?

Epic is giving away Subnautica and Super Meatboy later this month.. but apparently he's saying they're just free to play.

 

[Vayra86]

This comes down to point 1 you made: trying to connect to Uplay through Steam.

When used by itself, my experience is that Uplay is the better platform. It’s quick, downloads come quicker, and more stable. It also stays connected more than Steam. I can’t tell you how many times Steam has offered to sign in offline for me.

You're right, Uplay has vastly improved, but it still tends to hang in the store and when clicking news posts all the time. But yes, the social and gaming part of it is OK now.

And Steam 'going offline' yes... so annoying.

I have to say, I like those! We need a little humor in these things.

Its funny, but if you look at the actual bugs they fixed, the serious description would have been far too shocking Especially the last one...

 

[Eskimonster]

like i can read this