"UbiSoft agreed to a co-exclusive on UPlay and the Epic Games store. Epic Games seeks exclusive games in order to have a unique lineup of games so there’s another reason for gamers to come to our store."
As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
that's a shame for you to say that, i'm sure Elite loves hearing what you just said.
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
It's France too, there's a high likelihood only 1-2 people on the team even had an Xbox.
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
I think it would have been better for all parties really especially gamers
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."
Atlus is releasing their game one week before Erdtree, SE is releasing theirs one week after.
HZD released four days before Zelda, HFW released one week before Elden Ring.
It seems to me like they are still releasing their games too close to Erdtree.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
This is not how you should go about opening a store on PC which is an open platform.
Was this ever in question?
So lets just analyse this. Epic offers a far better deal for developers compared to Steam, but you still need to pay them to release their games on your service? It's almost as if despite all the criticism Steam gets from developers it actually offers better visibility and sales potential. Who'd have thunk it, eh?
You can also tell that most of their most recent exclusivity deals have been rushed (proof being with the games boxart having the Steam logo covered with a sticker). It makes me wonder if Epic thought that their 12% cut publicity would be enough of a reason for people to begin purchasing games through their store over Steam. I'm sure that eventually EGS will become a better service but currently I have no incentive to purchase a game there over Steam.
Ugh wth. Fortnites success really went into their heads.
Meh, I'm just not going to buy games from the Epic Store. Might end up saving me a lot of money.
And the thing is, Fortnite won't be around forever. It's easy to see it dying just because of how shallow it is, and once it does, bye bye Epic Games store. In other words, I don't even think it would be wise to buy games on it, because who knows how long it's going to last.