Epic acquires Psyonix, will stop selling Rocket League on Steam

[Taf the Ghost]

Psyonix is a long time Epic partner, working on a lot of multiplayer for Unreal for them over the years. This has less to do with EGS and more to do with the long-term company relationships. It's probably a good pickup for Epic, and I'm happy for the Psyonix team. There's a NoClip documentary about Rocket League's development, if you want more information. 

[Firewrath9]

8 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

PUBG?

PUBG is owned by tencent (IIRC) which owns epic games

[Bouzoo]

Just now, Firewrath9 said:

PUBG is owned by tencent (IIRC) which owns epic games

Oh right right. I forgot about that part. Well I can see where that one is going. 

[Tristerin]

Capitalism - yall should speak with your Wallets.  You have all the power.

 

 

 

[S w a t s o n]

It's like Tim Sweeney wants everyone to hate him

[Hellion]

Epic games is just trolling all you virtue signallers bitter that your precious steam can't compete with their outdated business model.

 

The end result is hilarious for those of us with no skin in the game watching from the sidelines while you all cry and split hairs over one launcher vs another while being completely ignorant to the fact that DRM is still DRM regardless if steam some how brain washed you into thinking them championing the concept was okay.

 

Every time this subject is brought up it really shows the age of those involved. Never existing in a time when PC games were purchased once up front and launched by themselves.

 

But you know, keep fighting the good fight where all things not steam are evil and awful while turning a blind eye to the dumpster fire steam created for the gaming industry as a whole.

[Techstorm970]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[PlayStation 2]

Epic: "we'll stop making exclusives once Valve pays the same way we do"

Also Epic: [buys studios a la EA to make exclusives]

Also also Epic: [makes employees stress over a shitty free to play game]

[jiyeon]

1 hour ago, ElectronicWizard said:

Looks like Epic Games has chosen to acquire another launcher exclusive in the form of acquiring Psyonix, the studio notably behind "Rocket League".

As such, Rocket League will no longer be available for purchase on Steam once it's available on the Epic Games Store.

If you already own it on Steam you should be able to keep it on your account and continue receiving updates, but if the deal finalizes, then going forward, it will have to be purchased through the Epic Games Store for on PC.

I hate that the catalyst for Epic even being a thing and causing this was because of kids liking Fortnite...

[FiveSquared25]

2 hours ago, MeatFeastMan said:

This just doesn't sit well with me. Once again stupidity (of 10 year old fortnite players) is causing nasty market dominance like this.

 

I don't want to live in a world where we have Nvidia getting away with murder, Amazon controlling planet earth and Epic Games dominating the gaming market. No no and more no..

 

 

 

 

Well, Fornite is pretty decent (tho community is trash) and Epic always had Unreal so.

[Nowak]

So Epic's now saying that Rocket League won't be pulled from Steam.

 

https://www.usgamer.net/amp/epic-promises-support-for-rocket-league-on-all-platforms-no-announced-plans-to-pull-it-from-steam?__twitter_impression=true

[Bouzoo]

52 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

Actually, Epic was already a popular entity in the arena shooter gaming field and as an engine creator.  They co-existed as one of the biggest FPS makers next to id since the 90s.  Fortnite did help boost their popularity from there.  See Unreal Tournament and Championship.  Also, they're the developer of Gears of War too.  Fortnite didn't make them this thing overnight.

Fortnite dialed it to 11 though. In 2012 Tencent bought 40% of Epic and Epic was valued at $825M. They literally went from worth $5-8B in July (according to Blomberg) to nope, you're worth $15B in December (they had financing round and you can obviously see the difference in evaluation, but it's still a lot). Fortnite is believed to have made $2.4B alone last year. 

Mind you Unreal Engine is the big reason they are so big. 

[Ethan.]

8 minutes ago, Nowak said:

So Epic's now saying that Rocket League won't be pulled from Steam.

 

https://www.usgamer.net/amp/epic-promises-support-for-rocket-league-on-all-platforms-no-announced-plans-to-pull-it-from-steam?__twitter_impression=true

Considering the exact phrasing was

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We reached out to Epic Games and Psyonix who have offered this clarification: "We are continuing to sell Rocket League on Steam, and have not announced plans to stop selling the game there." An Epic spokesperson added, "Rocket League remains available for new purchasers on Steam, and long-term plans will be announced in the future."

I consider it still likely that's an attempt to calm people down and then announce it in the future, but that's speculation rather than a fact. Just based on "long term plans will be announced in the future".

[TheDankKoosh]

1 hour ago, Hellion said:

Epic games is just trolling all you virtue signallers bitter that your precious steam can't compete with their outdated business model.

 

The end result is hilarious for those of us with no skin in the game watching from the sidelines while you all cry and split hairs over one launcher vs another while being completely ignorant to the fact that DRM is still DRM regardless if steam some how brain washed you into thinking them championing the concept was okay.

 

Every time this subject is brought up it really shows the age of those involved. Never existing in a time when PC games were purchased once up front and launched by themselves.

 

But you know, keep fighting the good fight where all things not steam are evil and awful while turning a blind eye to the dumpster fire steam created for the gaming industry as a whole.

Steam has not caused the current decline in good "AAA" games (actually just a bit due to cs:go), but instead devs have decided to double down on things like ridiculous DRM and live service bullshit. I will fully grant you the fact that GoG is better for consumers, but it will most likely never get the popularity that it deserves, but enabling epic games is definitely not the way to fix the industry. Try not living in the past, but instead, create a better future.

[SomeCallMeJo]

NO GOD PLEASE  NO!!!! 

 

- RL player with over 800 hours

[D13H4RD]

Here's something I don't understand. 

 

How exactly would exclusivity in this case help? It's not like Rocket League is a hyped new game or anything, but a game that's been out for years with an already established userbase. 

[Taf the Ghost]

45 minutes ago, D13H4RD said:

Here's something I don't understand. 

 

How exactly would exclusivity in this case help? It's not like Rocket League is a hyped new game or anything, but a game that's been out for years with an already established userbase. 

DLC fees. Rocket League has season passes and the like.

 

However, that's not really why Epic would be interested in Psyonix. Epic needs an in-house studios to make other games, as they're stuck with all resources going to Fortnite for a while and Psyonix has skills in shooters. So, for Epic, they get a new game studio for projects that already is up & running, a continuing revenue stream of an esports title (and the experience that goes with it), and they're already on great terms with the company they're buying.

 

I've really rather hated most of the EGS stuff, but this is actually a good move by Epic in general. Epic isn't EA and this mostly won't hurt Rocket League, as it's big on consoles.

[D13H4RD]

10 minutes ago, Taf the Ghost said:

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Seems that way on the business side of things. In that case, looks to have certain benefits that'll keep the company running although probably something that consumers may not like. 

 

Though why remove it from Steam? Doesn't seem like a typical move for a title that's been already on a platform with a large userbase on it. 

[Taf the Ghost]

4 minutes ago, D13H4RD said:

Seems that way on the business side of things 

 

Though why remove it from Steam? Doesn't seem like a typical move for a title that's been already on a platform with a large userbase on it. 

Because EGS is Epic's inhouse Launcher and they simply need to put it on there.  But there is the issue of DLC fees and the like, which might actually still happen on Steam. It's going to be kinda weird to see how this plays out.

[D13H4RD]

14 minutes ago, Taf the Ghost said:

It's going to be kinda weird to see how this plays out.

Yeah, this is definitely odd. 

 

It's not surprising if their future games were to be EGS only but it's definitely odd to see a game that's been played and sold on a platform for years being removed years later in favor of another. 

 

It's probably happened before, though usually not in any common manner. 

[Humbug]

Oh dear. Steam currently sells a native Linux version of Rocket League for Linux users. Now people in the Linux community will no long be able to purchase a version which natively supports them. They will have to resort to work arounds like WINE or Proton to get the windows version working.

 

What a scumbag move.

 

Whether you care about Linux or not you should not make moves which hurt another community of PC gamers. The epic store should not be pulling games off other OS platforms, that's just toxic.

 

It's absolutely their right to not support all the platforms that Valve does, but they should not be preventing devs from selling on those platforms. They should be free to use other stores to reach those platforms.

[Misanthrope]

I'd be surprised to find people who didn't own Rocket League already.

 

Also from what I've seen on Fortnite (My son plays a lot) they're introducing mini games so a full version of rocket league within Fortnite as just a new mode is not out of the question btw.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

*sees people fighting over Epic vs. Valve => Thinks to himself  "don't blame me, I voted for Kodos" 

[D13H4RD]

I'll probably get Rocket League on Steam sometime later.

 

I don't know why, but I get the feeling that the EGS release won't be quite the same, especially since it lacks stuff like the Workshop as of now. 

[Mooshi]

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