Hello and welcome to Low Budget Gaming in this video I want you to talk about the
Epic game store that was launched recently and my thoughts on it and what
I think is going to happen with that but before I do that I also wanted to
mention that Insurgency Sandstorm is running a free open beta during the
weekend until Monday 9 a.m. Pacific time so I forgot to mention this in my usual
sales video so if anybody is interested you can check it out the game will be
available on the 12th of December so you get to play again before it comes out
which is great I suppose so onto the main news Epic Games have launched their
own store to compete with Steam it seems now initially they don't really have
much here they have Hades early access this is from Supergiant Games the
people behind Bastion and Transistor they have Ashen this is exclusive to
them right now Hello Neighbor, Subnautica is coming soon Darksiders, Satisfactory
and a few other games here Journey is coming here so initially it seems to me
that a lot of smaller indie devs are going to join up with Epic Games Store
that some of them may go exclusively here but I think what most will do is
they'll have their game on both platforms and see how it goes
now the main reason why people are saying that Epic is going to do well and
going to pose a threat to Steam is because they are sharing the revenue
with the game makers the publishers a bit more fairly lets say. Steam tends
to give 70% let me show you the charts this is the page where they explain the
revenue split between the game makers and the store so Steam as you can see
takes 30 percent and Epic will only take 12 percent so that's the main gist of it
and they've got a few FAQs here explaining how this will work and why is
Epic opening a store etc etc and they are talking about fair economics
and all of that, that's all nonsense I mean they're also in it for the money but here's the
thing I've read all of this and it tells you about how they're going to be more
fair to the Devs how they'll get more of a cut and
other things like content creators will also be able to get a cut all of that is
great but nowhere do they mention what the customers will get out of this like
this is something that I often notice with the gaming industry is they forget
about the customers the people who actually buy the game so here they talk
all about how it's fair how the devs will get more money and that's all great
but unless you offer something to the people who are buying the game
themselves why would they move to Epic Games when they already have the sales
and all the things they want on Steam so that is a concern and
it may get some traction initially I think like I said the indie devs will go
there some will probably have the games on both platforms some will go
exclusively there some might even go for a period there and then release their
games on Steam so all of that could happen but unless you have a lot of them
going there and a lot of big publishers going there I don't see that happening
because if you think about it Bethesda launched their Fallout 76 on
their own platform that is fine that they want to go away from Steam but that
doesn't mean that they want to go to another platform epic store has just
launched unless this becomes a big player and unless Bethesda or EA or
Ubisoft unless they have a benefit of going there getting more
sales there they don't have any reason to go there they don't want to share
their revenue with somebody else again they're already giving 30 to Steam that is
what's going to happen in my opinion initially they will get a lot of indie
devs and some might risk it but as soon as they see drop in sales and during the
busy holiday Christmas period if people go and launch their game on the epic
Store and nobody buys you think they're going to make the same mistake again
so in my opinion it wouldn't change things immediately at least now I don't
have a problem with Epic game store like as a consumer as a gamer more
options is good for me so the only good thing that can come out of
this is both of these sites will offer better discounts for us and I don't mind
having another launcher I mean I already have the Origin launcher the Uplay
launcher the GOG launcher Battle.net so I already have several of them I don't
mind adding one more if I can get better deals on it
also I want to know if they'll be offering any regional pricing like Steam
does because at the moment they don't seem to have it here
I saw the currencies they have so you have US dollar pound euro Polish zloty
Russian rubles South Korean Won Japanese yen Turkish lira and Ukrainian
hryvnia sorry I don't know how to pronounce it so yeah so I don't see any Southeast
Asian countries here so that is one of the big appeals for steam for me because
we have regional pricing and games cost a lot less for us other regions as well
all the third world regions so it makes it possible to play the games without
you know getting bankrupt so yeah I think this is okay this is a good thing
let's see how it goes they're offering some free games as well initially now I
don't know if this is free to keep or if it will be just free to play for a
couple of weeks because they're starting with subnautica so subnautica will
become free on the 14th until the 27th so two weeks they'll be offering the game I
don't know it's just play for two weeks or if you could keep it permanently yeah
it's a nice interesting move it's good for us as gamers but I don't think Gaben
will be too worried because just think about this for a moment let's say they
do start getting some traction and more devs start going there what is stopping
Gaben from matching the revenue epic games store is offering if he does the
same as them if he drops down to 12% people will just stay at Steam so that
one move could kill the Epic game store if he wanted but I don't think that's
going to happen immediately steam might improve things steam has also changed
their revenue share with some of the big publishers because they do want to keep
the big publisher so we'll see how that move pans out because for me the big
publishers who are going away from steam I think they are losing money by doing
that Fallout 76 do you think people will be eager to buy the next Bethesda game
from Bethesda dotnet after the fallout 76 debacle or even Black
Ops 4 they're offering that this thing they're offering the multiplayer-only
battle royale and multiplayer-only battle edition i think its called but
thirty dollars why do you think they're doing this this wouldn't be because
they're getting a lot of sales I know people who play black ops four
and on the PC battle royale is dead nobody's playing it so they're trying to
get more people in and this has only been out for two months similarly for
battlefield 5 they're offering 33% discount on the game and this has not
even been out for a month I think so yeah I don't think Steam would need to
worry too much about this and big publishers going and Uplay store who
buys the games from the Uplay Store I've never bought anything from there
like the only games I have there are the free ones or the ones that I bought on
Steam I have bought a couple of games on the origin I've bought battlefield one
and titanfall 2 the those are like pretty much the only games have bought
on the origin store so yeah also Blizzard they gave away Destiny 2 why
would they do that if they were making you know a lot of money selling their
game so I don't think it's all doom and gloom for steam at the moment and this
is a good move by epic I suppose but unless they are more consumer-friendly
they offer more discounts more sales more regional pricing better refunds the
unless they do all of that I don't see this being a big threat to steam at the
moment anyway meanwhile if they do offer the free games and if they are
free to keep I'll mention them but otherwise we'll be covering the steam
winter sale soon that's going to start in less than two weeks and I'll continue
as normal and if there's some good stuff here I'll mention them as well because
I'm interested in a good deal and I don't mind other platforms so yeah those
are my thoughts on this thank you for watching see you in the next one