Epic Games really fails at marketing their games.
>its day 4 since this game came on epic store
>playerbase is below 50 people
>takes a hour to queue up a match.
>they expect anyone to be dumb enough to buy a founders pack knowing this game will die before launch.
I don't like seeing games fail, but this is just sad.
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Fuck I had my eye on this, really neat idea I had a similar idea but it was espionage based
Never heard of that game. But I guess that was the point of this thread
At least they got the money.
what's this game about? just standard MP shooter?
Let me start off by saying the game isn't going to wow you in any regard. But the concept itself is interesting. It's a PvEvP game. The goal is to get the most stars out of other players.
You can get stars by completing objectives on this huge map. You can kill players and steal their objective, such as if a player is in the middle of mining, you cn steal his mining spot and take the reward for yourself. It has a pact system where you can walk up to players and join teams. (preventing friendly fire). It's basically a battle royale game with PvE objectives. (Although if you kill other players, they automatically are going to lose).
I like the concept, and I really want either this or another game with this concept to do good. Unfortunately this game shit the bed. I know Yea Forums would want to bash but it's a fun free to play game and I hope something comes out that is successful like this.
>>playerbase is below 50 people
How do you know this? I thought Epic didn't reveal player numbers like Steam.
Sounds interesting but if it has no player base I can't be bothered playing it honestly. It sounds from what you described to need a decent population to actually be fun and work.
>Epic Games really fails at marketing their games.
They fucking do, I keep discovering games that're new or old on their store long after they released.
Western games really needs like a siliconera that I can just throw into an RSS feed and check up on.
Epic games store explicitly states they dont advertise games that come onto their platform, they expect gamers to know what's on it by looking at the storefront or reading about it from journalists or watching it from streamers.
Wasnt that the whole point indie devs moved there besides the split
sounds like mario party
No they just want the bribe money
No, they moved there because Epic paid them a shittonne of money.
the hunt: showdown is like that but it has players
Even if the game flops and has nobody buying it, Epic games will cover the cost and make it a success either way. It's like winning the lottery and you really dont need to do anything more afterwards.
but why are you lying you steam drone,is it the mental illness ? I found a match in 30-1 min even before launch
but wouldn't you feel bad making a video game nobody plays
I feel like if you only wanted to make money you're in the wrong field
That down syndrome fuck sweeney has a great system set up then
>snag game with exclusivity bribe money
>devs announce they've taken the sweeney's Chinese cash
>people bitch about it and word spreads that the games on epic store for free advertising
I'd be impressed if it wasn't so scummy
You can pump out a low effort game that has a good demo to show to epic, lots of nice fortnite colour and cute artstyle and shit, then pocket the money and use that to make the game you actually want, you then put that on the epic store and get the money again. Its fucking incredible and Epic wont be able to keep doing this considering everyone I know is trying this exact thing.
based
On the other hand, it's like a year's worth of extra dev time for polish and to fix things with the money until the real release a year later once the exclusivity is up. I dont know why more indie devs don't just do the wink wink nudge nudge we're releasing the alpha version on EGS early access but 1.0 will release on steam with the free money with extra content and polish instead of insulting their customers.
Hunt is fucking awesome.
Noticed how the crushing majority of games poached by Epic's bribe money have that childish saturated Fortnite graphical style to them?
How """"""""""""""""""peculiar""""""""""""""""""
This game came out? What the fuck
I wonder how many other people are missing game releases because of EGS. I'd honestly be willing to bet that most people are only now learning that Hades exists today because the steam page just went up despite it being in early access for almost a year on EGS.
never heard of it before
i dislike that color palette. it looks sort of ugly on my eyes. pretty sure i've seen other devs do that same aesthetic style before, but with better coloring.
Epic didn't fail at anything. It's devs' fault. If they wanted Epic to market it, they should've offered Epic bigger cut from their sales.
I always find it funny Epic preaches about 88/12 but never brings up the support a creator cut. Especially with this part:
>But in already giving up 12 percent to Epic (a very favorable split, to be sure) a 20 percent commission for an affiliate link gets them less than the 70 percent they would make selling through Steam.