Glumberland has announced that it has signed an exclusivity deal with Epic Games for its upcoming title, Ooblets. According to the developers, Epic offered them a minimum guarantee on sales that would match what they’d be wanting to earn if they were just selling Ooblets across all the stores.
Glumberland claims that this was the main reason why it signed the deal with Epic Games. Thanks to this deal, the developers will be able to solely focus on improving the game itself. Not only that, but now they won’t have to worry about the game’s sales on the PC.
In case you weren’t aware of, Ooblets is a farming, town life, and creature collection game. In this game, players manage their farm, grow and train their ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs.
Glumberland claimed that Epic Games is paying upfront (meaning that the developers get the money the moment they sign the deal). As such, Glumberland will now be able to afford more help and resources to start ramping up production.
To be honest, I find this announcement as honest as it can get. The developers needed more money in order to finish their game so it made perfect sense to sign the deal with Epic. Yes, Epic is using its huge amount of money to secure as many as exclusives as it can. It’s a really anti-consumer move, no doubt about that. However, it appears that this money can at least be used so that developers can finish their games.
The developers later on tried to somehow address some of the criticisms that the Epic Games Store has received these past few months. To be honest, though, they did not convince me. I guess they should had stuck with just their initial statement.
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Don’t you mean maximum guarantee?
You know what else sells games; making a quality game. If your game is worth a sh*t, then a demo, a proper trailer and some honest reviews should do the trick.
“Epic offered us a minimum guarantee on sales”
I also choose to be a degenerate.
Epic Game Store is nothing but an anti-consumer pile of rotten trash… all this, feeded by disgusting money, comming from the Chinese crooked Tencent, and the P2W Fartnite milk cow…
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Yes, we need to stop the epic bad
At least it’s honest, I can respect that. It means I can’t buy the game though, as I can’t support this stuff on PC.
I respect honesty but not when it’s also being used to cover up some other bad things.
Another free games in the horizon…
Again, who ?
Free market capitalism and competition bad! smh. I see from the link provided that the highly patronising, smug, pontificating, snide, pompous, morally superior and self-righteous dev’ has also stated,
They better be ready for further disappointment then.
Stunning and brave! Respect the wahmen. Signal that virtue, Ben.
#EpicFail
These are my favorite parts:
You can just smell the soy in that snide, condescending tone.
Too right! The whole infantile diatribe positively reeks of soy as does the site in general. Total cringe. Not wholly dissimilar to the writing of soy-infused activist ‘journalists’ at Polygon, PC Gamer, Kotaku and Eurogamer.
Steam and GOG dodged a bullet with this one.
Aw, are the EpicHateTrain circlejerkers triggered because of that joke ? xD
Also note the following quotation from him,
Exactly the same disrespectful, dismissive, sneering, demeaning, morally superior, elitist, smug and all-round anti-consumer tone one routinely witnesses from the soyboys and hateful activist ‘journalists’ at the aforementioned garbage tier gaming sites. Pure cancer.
Was that a tweet? Got a link? I’m having trouble finding it.
EDIT: Forget it, I just saw it, it’s in the original blogpost.
With crushing predictability Ben’s avatar on Twitter is the epitome of soy…
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Beta male? Not even that. This guy is pure gamma male! ?
No need for that. The LGBTQ+ community in no way deserves to be likened to said gamma male soyboy.
I still have yet to see an epic game store exclusive must have. There are some good games on there… but nothing I feel that I must play day 1 and I can gladly wait.
This reveal deal has got to be the worst one out of all of them. Yeah, metro was bad, but these are two devsa, who don’t give a crap about their consumers, only the blind loyalists.
Devs are defending them on their condescending take, and journos are only covering their side of the story, not the snark the two devs showed in their official discord chat channel.
We definitely are approaching a new GG, only just aimed at PC consumers instead. And once again, it’s the devs picking the same damn side as usual.
This industry is both childish, run by greed and selfishness, while also being rotten to the core.
Retards.
Epic Exclusives consist of a a lot of games that I have never heard of. The majority of them I would not even play if they were on other platforms.
Numerically that’s probably ltrue but a lot of them are either known good games or games that are likely to be decent:
Phoenix Point, Outer Worlds, MechWarrior 5, Metro Exodus, to name a few.
I could be wrong about Exodus. I’m not even going to pay them the respect of pirating it because that would mean I’m interested. IDK.
So Epic’s thing now is to be the Catcher in the Rye..
Remember when Epic was only interested in “high quality” games?
Just like I hate Holden Caulfield and I hate that book, I also hate Epic. At least Holden Caulfield is imaginary – Tim Sweeney on the other hand is a real person who exists and really is this much of a piece of trash.