Congrats to Josef Fares and Hazelight Studios!
As someone who has been looking forward to the PC release of FF7 Remake on Steam for a long time, I was disappointed to see the game has Epic exclusivity. On top of the original one year PS4 exclusivity. And on top of the extended exclusivity that came alongside the DLC release.
Top all of that off with the fact that this is only the first of many parts. So those of us who choose to use Steam will likely have to go through this all over again when parts 2, 3, etc. roll around. And then Square wants to charge $70 for it. Game has been out nearly 2 years and free on PS+.
Honestly it just feels like PC gamers (and in particular Steam users, which make up most of the market) are being milked. I don’t think people should have to endure double exclusivity, let alone triple. It’s more egregious and greedy than a simple one time case (which still sucks). It’s fun when everyone can enjoy the launch hype together.
Shouldn’t have to worry about which store a game is coming to. Just release …
There were a lot of games shown on TGA this time around and some of them were from the notorious slut of the gaming industry Square Enix that readily sells its exclusivity to whoever shines a nickel.
This publisher has introduced 2 games to PC:
FFVII remake which after 2 periods of exclusivity with Sony now becomes EGS exclusive, so at least another year of not being able to buy it wherever you prefer on PC and a 3-rd deal of exclusivity for SE for which they rake money.
Forspoken was their second game and sadly SE will be losing a lot of money on this one because they weren’t able to score any full exclusive deals and it comes out both on PS5 and PC (Steam) on the same date, hence they need some extra method of income to stay afloat which so nicely is shared between these 2 aforementioned games.
They are selling those games at $70 and €80 (and I won’t even stop this time on terrible regional prices). Perhaps, I just crawled from out of the cave, but that’s the …
Don’t buy games, that are above 60 € or $, seriously does square enix think, that they can get away with this bs.