While I don't love Steam, I hate the monopoly that Epic is creating.  This is one of two games that I refuse to buy because of this practice.  Yes, I created an account just to vent.  I'm sure very few people care, but I do.  If this game has all the bugs fixed I just read about and is still supported when other platforms can sell it, then I'll buy it then, probably at a discount.  Until then, I hope your marketing strategy of using Epic exclusively bites your bottom line and alienates any fans.

So buy if from Microsoft then? I like Epic though :D, got it from them myself. Anyway I can support the Unreal Engine.

Complain to the publisher that made this decision. Obsidian was updating the Steam store page just an hour before the exclusivity deal was announced.

1 hour ago, Rynak said:

While I don't love Steam, I hate the monopoly that Epic is creating.  This is one of two games that I refuse to buy because of this practice.  Yes, I created an account just to vent.  I'm sure very few people care, but I do.  If this game has all the bugs fixed I just read about and is still supported when other platforms can sell it, then I'll buy it then, probably at a discount.  Until then, I hope your marketing strategy of using Epic exclusively bites your bottom line and alienates any fans.

It isn't Epic exclusive. 

What makes you think it is an Epic exclusive?

This same topic is getting really boring and tedious. 

Nobody cares about your pathetic dislike of Epic Games Store.

1) Okay. Nobody cares.

2) You can also buy it from Microsoft, or get it from Xbox Game Pass after signing up for like one dollar.

I got it on ms store, I can relate to not wanting to use epic. I don't like being pressured into using someone's store like this, but it's not the dev's fault.  

You could always just use gamepass and then buy it on steam in a year's time. 

 

 

Edited October 28, 20196 yr by Mikeymoonshine

I got it on Xbox game pass with 5$ per month subscription. Its a NO BRAINER!

Playing it on Game Pass now and will pick it up when it comes out on Steam next year, easy peasy. I won't support EGS (more because they're a crunch studio), but it doesn't mean I have to pass up stuff; options are out there.

6 hours ago, daven said:

This same topic is getting really boring and tedious. 

Nobody cares about your pathetic dislike of Epic Games Store.

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Well, to be honest, I've never been so close to pirating a game as I was with this title. I really want to support Obsidian but at the same time I hate the decision to exclude certain stores just to get more money (more money for the publisher, less options for the consumer).

In the end I caved and bought it from Epic. Still ****ing pissed though. Semi-exclusivity in the PC space. Unbelievable.

28 minutes ago, mkreku said:

Well, to be honest, I've never been so close to pirating a game as I was with this title. I really want to support Obsidian but at the same time I hate the decision to exclude certain stores just to get more money (more money for the publisher, less options for the consumer).

In the end I caved and bought it from Epic. Still ****ing pissed though. Semi-exclusivity in the PC space. Unbelievable.

Why not the Windows store? Or a console?

Meh, I wouldn’t buy it on Epic, but Game Pass in no brainier. 
 

I will buy my own copy and any DLC available once it releases on steam or preferably GOG. 

I bought this digitally from Game Stop but had to redeem the code on Epic games, I was told if I had held on to the code until it released on steam I could of used it then.  I wasn't to keen though on paying $63 and waiting for a year to play this game.  I agree that they really botched the release by limiting it to two sites that a lot of people have a history/dislike for.  I am hoping other companies look at the response, as well as Obsidian/Microsoft, and realize it is not a good idea to create drama for people who just want to play your game.

1 hour ago, Ommamar said:

I bought this digitally from Game Stop but had to redeem the code on Epic games, I was told if I had held on to the code until it released on steam I could of used it then.  I wasn't to keen though on paying $63 and waiting for a year to play this game.  I agree that they really botched the release by limiting it to two sites that a lot of people have a history/dislike for.  I am hoping other companies look at the response, as well as Obsidian/Microsoft, and realize it is not a good idea to create drama for people who just want to play your game.

2 hours ago, mkreku said:

Well, to be honest, I've never been so close to pirating a game as I was with this title. I really want to support Obsidian but at the same time I hate the decision to exclude certain stores just to get more money (more money for the publisher, less options for the consumer).

In the end I caved and bought it from Epic. Still ****ing pissed though. Semi-exclusivity in the PC space. Unbelievable.

This says it all, this guy was about to pirate it apparently but still bought from epic. If people this full of anger won't even vote with their wallet, no one will.

What is really sticking in my craw is the exclusivity contract Epic is forcing.  We got away from that for the most part, so you could buy console and PC games around the same time.  I also am sick of games as a service, so I end up with a game a few years after it launches I cannot play...even it was single player.  Heck I would accept a disk for PC game with one of the less cringe worthy DRM solution's.  I also personally do not like the UELA for the Epic store, and I have have had enough issues with the MS store to be really leery of using it  (they triple charged me for an upgrade from Win 10 home to Pro, and then I still could not get it to work.  Had to block the charges and buy a key from a local retailer instead).  I also have some older games that simply disappeared from my inventory from the MS store and that has never happened with GOG or Steam.

2 hours ago, Hurlshot said:

Why not the Windows store? Or a console?

Because I'm cheap and Epic was the cheapest (got it on another site but turned out to be an Epic key for $50).

Gamepass is the cheapest way bar none. Even if your region doesn't have the $1 introductory offer. And wow, it's EGS exclusive exactly as much as it would have been steam exclusive had it been on steam since you can even buy keys from 3rd parties exactly as you would on steam.

43 minutes ago, daven said:

This says it all, this guy was about to pirate it apparently but still bought from epic. If people this full of anger won't even vote with their wallet, no one will.

He's an infamous forum DRM advocate as in the only people who have problems with DRM have to be dirty dirty pirates. Admitting to piracy himself would be perhaps the most amusing thing to happen here, ever.

Im a gamer I don't really care where I get my games from. If a system or whatever has a game i want then im buying it. Don't care if its MS, PS, Epic, Steam, gamefly or a trash can. Anyone who complains about where they can buy their games just isn't a true gamer.

Friendly reminder that there's a zero tolerance policy of piracy here. Any posts advocating the practice will be nuked and warnings will be handed out.

(I mean, it should be immediately obvious to anyone that discussing taking something from a business without paying for it while in the business's premises is a huge no-no, but apparently it's not)

10 hours ago, mkreku said:

Well, to be honest, I've never been so close to pirating a game as I was with this title. I really want to support Obsidian but at the same time I hate the decision to exclude certain stores just to get more money (more money for the publisher, less options for the consumer).

In the end I caved and bought it from Epic. Still ****ing pissed though. Semi-exclusivity in the PC space. Unbelievable.

i am disappointed