Three Fields Entertainment has announced that its spiritual successor to Burnout 3: Takedown, Dangerous Driving, will not be coming out on Steam. Instead, this new racing game will be coming exclusively on Epic’s digital store on April 9th.
As the developers noted, the Steam platform was not viable for them as their previous games did not sell that well on it, which is why they decided to release the game as an exclusive title on Epic’s store.
“We have to date published 4 games on Steam and it was our intention that Dangerous Driving would also feature there. However, we have reached the conclusion that for now at least it is not a viable platform for us. This is not us being anti-Steam as it is clearly a great platform for many. It is purely that, for many reasons (many of which we take responsibility for) our games have just not sold on this platform compared to others we publish on.
This is why we have taken the chance to try something different.
We appreciate the support we have had from those who have bought our games on Steam and we are sorry to disappoint them that Dangerous Driving will not be there.”
Dangerous Driving will allow players to bump, shunt, slam, scratch and powerslide their way around 30 dangerous courses set across seven different locations.”
In Dangerous Driving, players will takedown their opponents in the adrenaline fuelled Takedown Races, chain their way to perfection in the Boost Chain Races, or rule every road in Road Rage. Players will also be able to switch on their Sirens and apprehend Wanted Suspects in Pursuit Mode, or be the last car standing in Eliminator.
It’s also worth noting that the game will offer offline races against AI drivers in over 8 different event types.
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Well their choice to kill the game
They really don’t want my money.
The game looks like some mobile garbage.
well you didn’t have to give away your jealousy like this but ok we will pretend this isn’t the best racing game of all time.
Yeah it doesnt look that good at all
Except this is a 2019 game.
Visuals this bad indicate either incompetence or a complete lack of effort.
Or lack of ressources, this is an indy game after all, and considering that it’s fine, and it can be fun, i just have to admit that the Epic exclusivity is bad, wrong, and anti-consumer, but the game, presenting itself as a Burnout spiritual successor seems to be in the right way to reach it goals
NFS carbon had good graphics, most wanted 2012 had good graphics nfs 2015 had good graphics.
Your point is null.
Perhaps made all the more disappointing when one realises that Three Fields Entertainment was founded by former Criterion Games devs.
I may download it from more unofficial channels, if you know what I mean.
damn my poosy smell so bad. i wash the inside with soap everyday but it still smells like a trump loving conservative teenager who buys games on epic store.
what a catchy song, i’m dancing with it right now. moving my beautifully shaped body and symmetrical face in front of mirror turns me on so bad. i get even more turned on when i think about epic store exclusivity.
So epic money is more valuable than games sales..smh
it is not about epic money being more valuable than sales, it is about epic money being higher than the profits generated from previous sales
it’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message.
Another Epic fail.
“our games have just not sold on this platform”
No s**t, your games are beyond awful, this way you will dodge reviews, and it’s only that.
“our games have just not sold on this platform”
No s**t, your games are beyond awful, this way you will dodge reviews, and it’s only that.
Keep trying you pieces of trash.
LOL.
Fair enough, then my 60$ will remain exclusive to my wallet
Yakuza is 20$, this looks like those awful student projects that somehow get a way into steam. 1$ is max for these types of games even then it’s not worth it.
You aint wrong
***our games have just not sold on this platform compared to others we publish on.***
What? Where else did you sell your game? GOG? Origin? Nutaku? It sold better there?
If by other platforms you meant consoles than it’s not a fair comparison.
Ye, first they sell mediocre games, only Switch gamers are buying it and then it’s Steam’s fault.
It’s clearly an excuse, they want to make the biggest profit possible and to do so they’ll save on the store slice.
it is not just the store slice, it is the free money they receive for an exclusivity deal.
Yeah.
Ye, first they sell mediocre games, only Switch gamers are buying it and then it’s Steam’s fault.
What a steaming turd…Just like burnout games.
Oh and i just noticed it’s an epic store exclusive lmao.
Burnout games are great.
No they’re trash.
Don’t double down when you’re this WRONG.
I don’t care about your opinion.
Yet another reason never to touch the Epic Store with a 10 foot pole. “Spiritual successor to Burnout” my a*s.
Their excuse is beyond terrible. If you’re worried about sales, you INCREASE the options for consumers not do the exact opposite. Unless Epic is offering to pay their entire budgets, I seriously don’t see why these developers are so eager to commit commercial suicide.
Steam provides you a platform for being on Featured, Recommended, New, Sales, Trending, Categories, Tagging, Curation, Reviewed, Friends & Searched pages. Not to mention the massive market share.
Epic provides you… the ability to be searched for directly. In other words, only people who already know about your game will find it. On a platform no one uses. Commercial. Suicide.
As for the gameplay itself, it looks nothing like Burnout to me. It does have Need for Speed 2 (1997) vibes though with the momentum & track design so it could be fun. Graphics are meh but this isn’t a full priced title.
Well put.
That’s the thing, they probably got bribed by Epic for the exclusivity. Can’t blame them honestly.
“Steam… is not a viable platform for us”
Metacritic ratings of their previous games,
Dangerous Golf – 54% (32% user rating)
Lethal VR – 66%
Danger Zone – 64%
Danger Zone 2 – 62% average from the mere 2 critics who cared to review it
In summary, Three Fields Entertainment has a history of producing nothing but mediocre games which, unsurprisingly and by their own admission, Steam users largely ignored. Nothing of value has been lost.
#EpicFail
Metacritic means nothing and most users are complete idiots but, I’m going to agree with you because I’m already of the opinion that nothing is lost here. Any developer who accepts Epic exclusivity is dead to me, forever.
I do enjoy quirky/fun golf games, haha. I blame Awesome Golf on Atari Lynx from back in the day. More recent ones I’ve enjoyed would include Stickman Golf and Flick Golf on iOS and Mario Golf Toadstool Tour on GameCube/Dolphin.
Np with me. I wouldn’t touch this pile of s**t anyways.
I NEED SPEEED
my god when will they learn https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c697d2272716dd612434a9c46496eb80b2fa8eb0dad563143767f1c50e7a942e.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b31c13a3a0bc8fd75aff3fceb5affcd68028f365c633b0bf8ac73edfb63b8cc5.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f941b6f90a9c59bf718aae9c00919e30db0c65ac4f2c1b71c5ad68ac1215cb86.jpg
We went through this with anti-consumer music and movie stores, browsers and other apps. These Store Wars will end up in court unless things get real clear.
No store is doing it right imo, not steam not epic, oh except GOG perhaps. Not gonna be forced into doing business with ONE single store for a damn 3rd party game. Definitely not giving my credit card to yet another one. Stores need to be stores so I can have a choice of where to buy – and stay tf away from my libraries and files. Trying to “console-ize” the OPEN PC platform also goes against EULA, but I’m sure lawmakers wont chase it being games and not business apps. Also if I buy a game, that’s where our interaction ENDS. No need to be running in the background and stealing my valuable personal data property.
For those who love “the features” so much then go enjoy. Features should not be tied to a store that has dominion over our files, so there should be an option in a separate overlay app that runs those friends, chats, matchmakings, etc. features but MINUS the store and library/file fondling. I managed my own files just fine on my own and dont need any store to do anything for me unless I want it to.
Sounded like a game I would have bought to support the devs too. Hope that fat check was worth it.
Well, another game delayed for a year. I hope they enjoy 88% of $0
Anyway, it really seems to be an üterly arcade mobile trash game!
Anyway, it really seems to be an üterly arcade mobile trash game!
I’m not going to be biased, the game does not look that bad, car models and camera movement could be better for sure…
Now going exclusive on EPIC is just a no buy to me, every dev that’s going epic exclusive is going to be blacklisted, simply as that, i’m really tempted to even just uninstall EPIC from my PC, their free games are nothing EPIC to say the least, and their bribe just confirms what i’ve always thought about them, SOB.