It releases on December 3rd of 2019 and aims to release on Steam 1 year later. This is the first instance of a crowd funded game going Epic exclusive. March 11th: Phoenix Point a spiritual successor to X-Com and a crowd funded announces an exclusive deal with Epic despite promising Steam keys. It releases on Steam about one year and one month later. January 29th: Genesis Alpha One becomes an Epic exclusive. It releases on Steam fully one year later. Steam addresses the exclusives for the first time after this incident by saying that the deal was 'not fair to Steam customers'. It is abruptly pulled from Steam during it's Pre-Order period. January 28th: Metro Exodus is announced as an Epic Exclusive. All Epic exclusives at this point are not at much noticed by media outlets until. January 15th 2019: The Walking Dead: The Final Season becomes an Epic exclusive. They are released on Steam one year later. Among them were Ashen and Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek. It is received positively at the time due to people saying that Steam needed competition.ĭecember 8th: Epic Games Store Launches it's first exclusives.

This is criticized by many indie developers as focusing on AAA games rather than Indie games.ĭecember 6th: Epic Games Store launches as part of the Game Awards. November 30th 2018: Valve announces that Steam will take lower cuts depending on how much money a game makes with 10 Million dollars getting 25% while 50 Million gets 20% for Valve. He laments it as unfair and says that Steam can still make a profit by going as low as 8% revenue cut take. Also read this with Bill Wurtz's voice cuz it will be funny.Īugust 23rd 2017: Tim Sweeney begins to question the 30% split that both Steam and GOG take from the games they sell. All dates are taken at the time of publication of news articles and release dates from KKKEpic which tracks Epic exclusives. This is meant to be informative than anything else. So how did this all start? Let's go travel through time. Well I'm back I made this mainly because I got bored to tears and I recently heard that Epic stole another game as an exclusive Hitman 3.

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