In an email answer to a user, Gabe Newell shared his stance with regards to exclusivity in the field of VR, but those same principles could be applied to the current situation with Epic Games. Below is his response.
GABEN RESPONDED IN AN EMAIL ABOUT EGS
Benjamin Nguyen
Oliver Stewart
tldr he says hes gonna buy exclusives too
Robert Sullivan
no he didn't, retard.
Liam Fisher
Tldr you're a retard
Nathan Gomez
>2016
Camden Jackson
Isn't that from three years ago?
Jordan Turner
You should become a journalist, OP.
Kayden Rivera
>However there are no strings attached to those funds
That's a lie. There is a string, you HAVE to release for the Vive.
Brayden Gutierrez
>you HAVE to release for the Vive
>not exclusively
WOW how horrible how fucking dare they this is fucking disgusting why can't they just give devs money for no reason at all steam deserves the financial loss anyway.
Retard.
Jordan Bell
What's EGS
Christian Cooper
Says who?
Justin Ward
Who THE fuck cares about VR.
Joseph Hall
I'm not saying it's wrong to require devs you are financing to release on your platform. That's fine. Valve isn't running a charity. I'm just saying when he said "no string attached" that's simply not true.
Read what he said. It's basically a loan they are giving. The repayments are made via sales on the Steam platform. You really think the devs have the option of not releasing on the Steam platform?
Adam Green
Point to the sentence where he says this and I'll buy you a copy of Cyberpunk.
Andrew Nguyen
fuck valve they are treating game developers like shit
Gabriel Gonzalez
>Read what he said.
>However there are no strings attached to those funds - they can develop for the Rift or PlayStation VR or whatever the developer thinks are the right target VR systems.
???
Henry Harris
Yes, user's saying that sentence is false, way to go.
Bentley Walker
As always, Valve is based as fuck.
Jose Myers
>...so we are happy to offset that giving developers development funds (essentially pre-paid Steam revenue).
Jose Sanders
He thinks that Valve should pay devs to make games that they won't put on their platform.
Aaron Morris
Enfield Grammar School
Ian Lee
I too google'd it
Jayden Moore
James Ramirez
No, I never said that. What I said is the payments are not made "no strings attached" like claimed. Of course there are stings attached. Why Gabe would claim there aren't right after saying there are I don't understand. Did he think I would have already forgotten the sentence I literally just read before it?
Logan Anderson
Surely worth the multiple posts to point out.
Cooper Russell
Why tell someone to read what was said if you're going to make shit up?
Henry Roberts
I read that as Ember's Ghost Squad lol
Luke Gonzalez
You're right. I don't even know why I bother. This place is not full of people who give a fuck about reality. They just want to live in their fantasy world.
Isaiah Moore
Ember's Ghost Squad.
Jackson Martinez
Wait he's giving away free money to VR devs? How the fuck do I sign up?
Jack Sullivan
Wrong user.
They care about shitposting and getting a reaction out of you. Problem is they lack the proper brain to make a compelling troll.
Grayson Williams
why wouldn't you want to? the VR market is not big enough yet where an exclusive portion of it will result in good sales