Snapshot Games has announced that its upcoming spiritual successor to X-Com, Phoenix Point, will be timed exclusive to Epic’s digital store. According to the team, and similarly to all Epic store deals, this will be a one-year exclusivity and after the first twelve months the team will be able to distribute the game through other third-party stores, such as Steam and GOG.com.
Here is what the team had to say about this exclusive deal with Epic Games.
“Releasing a video game in today’s market is highly risky – our partnership with Epic Games greatly reduces this. After spending a lot of time considering all the possibilities, we came to an agreement with Epic Games to distribute Phoenix Point through their platform.
While we are unable to go into details on the specifics of our agreement with Epic Games, we really do believe that it is in the best interests of our studio, Phoenix Point and our future titles. It gives us the security not only to continue to support Phoenix Point long into the future but also to bring you other exciting titles once Phoenix Point is completed. In addition, it gives us the freedom to commit to more Phoenix Point content once the game has been released, which will be free for the first year to our backers up to this point.”
All pre-order customers and Fig crowdfunding backers (Early Bird Digital Edition tier or higher) will receive a key for the retail version of Phoenix Point which will be redeemable via the Epic Games Launcher. All backers will also receive a Steam or GOG key after the 1 year exclusivity period.
Furthermore, everyone who has backed (at the Early Bird Digital Edition tier or higher) or pre-ordered Phoenix Point from the launch of its crowdfunding campaign until March 12th will receive all DLC the team releases in its first year for free.
Last but not least, those that are not happy with this decision can also request a refund!
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Y’all know what that means, yarr!
I hate this exclusivity BS. This would have been a buy on Steam. Not now.
Say no more. 😉
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Yeah, let’s show those developers by actively promoting piracy of the game.
That’ll really show everyone how retarded certain PC gamers are ! GJ.
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why does he have unibrow? is he from pakistan?
@darkevry is this you?
into the trash it goes
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Will pick it up once the steam version is in a bundle for a dollar then
Ok, this is getting ridiculous
Everything is going to the epic store. even rebel galaxy outlaw, they put everything on epic and the epic jerks have the audacity to say that their store is perfect and doesnt need improvements.
When have they said that it’s perfect and doesn’t need improvements?
2 days ago.
And another one bites the dust!
Seems like they’re going to get more dislikes on the sellout video than sales on the Epic store!
i’m just sitting here in my cozy and warm room sipping on my coffee having fun playing darkest dungeon, have fun with your sales dikheads. this game is trash anyway, no one is going to play this instead of xcom 2.
for those who are interested here’s a video of metro exodus running in 8k and 60fps (not stable 60):
watch?v=lBNdC7gScBw
“Phoenix Point, spiritual successor to X-Com, will be timed exclusive to Epic’s digital store” lol thanks for the free cpy in advance
board the ship https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5ca061ba7599c73eeaa600d2f6bb3a33ee331ed3c8942741cb8de16a69bb635a.png
Oh, that reminds me. Time to go activate another free Epic game while the fanboys complain about Steam losing more games because they’re greedy.
Oh, that reminds me. Time to go pirate another Epic Store game while
the attention seeking dirthurts posts yet another wilfully contrarian comment.
Nice, great to see the PC gaming community on a site like this promote piracy because a game requires to download an additional launcher.
I use to think people were idiots when they said that gamers are entitled brats. They are idiots, mostly, but it seems they are right about some people.
Nice to see you’re so easily triggered. Again.
The only thing triggering me is the fact that people on this site are retarded enough to use “you’re triggered” as a response.
Yawn. Again.
Sorry, am I not cool enough because I don’t promote piracy as a solution to these problems ?
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Epic keeps digging their own grave. Hopefully Shenmue 3 is spared this fate, I really want to buy that game and not have to pirate it.
THE CRAZY AMOUNT of metro exodus ads i am getting speaks volume of its sales
so,good move poptards
Timed exclusivity of a crowdfunded game is just plain scummy for both Epic and Snapshot Games.
Really torn on how to feel about this one.
On the one hand I empathise to some degree with the dev’s given reasoning and how he’s being proactive in seeking to accommodate those backers who he knows won’t be at all happy with this development. Also, Julian Gollop is a genuine industry legend and a hero to many gamers dating back to the days of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
But on the other hand this is Epic Store and therefore is cancer.
F him, a legend making a barebone x-com clone by backer’s money and then lies and undo everything is no legend but a scumbag that stole all of those people’s money and stabbed them in the back.
One aspect of this I’m unclear on is that according to the crowdfunding page…
www(dot)fig(dot)co/campaigns/phoenix-point
…the funding goal was for $500K and they beat it to the tune of a final total of $781K. So if they exceeded the goal by over 50% then why do they now need extra money from Epic Store?
The site’s comments section is brimming with backers expressing their anger and dismay,
www(dot)fig(dot)co/campaigns/phoenix-point/comments
One of the more pertinent comments being,
“I would like to point out when Metro Exodus announced it would be an Epic (timed) exclusive, they still honored those who had pre ordered the game prior to that with Steam keys.”
As much as I respect Julian Gollop for his past achievements it has to be said that he’s not exactly covering himself in glory with this decision and the terms of the contract he agreed to.
>why do they now need extra money from Epic Store?
Simple, they took people’s money (not all will refund), and now they are taking Epic’s money. it will sell on Epic store even if the number is very low they won’t lose much, 1 year from now everything is forgotten and they sell it on steam/gog as well.
I loved Peter Molyneux, i put blames on MS for Fable 2/3 and other s**t , then he announce Godus in kickstarter and got £500k in a short time, they release a mess of a game and then abandoned it, with no refund or anything. Devs and Publisher are scumbags these days, doesn’t matter if it’s 4A games or Blizzard or Gollop or Molyneux or sockpuppet fatty from GrimFandango.
Yeah, I noted from the backer comments that seemingly plenty of them are now seeking a refund which, although it takes up to 28 days, is thankfully possible.
According to one comment, such is the level of investment from Epic Store that every single existing backer could be refunded and Gollop’s studio would still have enough money left over to fund the game,
“One of the Epic drones that was formerly a discord mod for Snapshot Games summed the whole garbage perfectly well “if we had to refund 100% of all backers and pre-orders we would stil be in the black””
>According to one comment
Yeah i was reading that too, of course they got money, maybe enough that they can burn all the bridges. but still it’s one of those one guy said something on the internet so it must be true cases.
Special Epic Electric Chair reward is what these Devs should get.
I supplied the quotation above when editing my comment just now. While no link was provided as a source there’s nevertheless enough information to try verifying it should one care enough to do so. I don’t!
I find it interesting that the backers are being shafted more so than those who pre-ordered Metro Exodus on Steam were. The latter had their pre-orders honoured with a Steam key on launch day whereas Phoenix Point backers won’t receive a Steam/GOG key until a year after release.
I feel them (Godus, can still feel the pain), it’s more scummy than what they did with Metro, both are s**t moves but this one way worst, they basically lied to their investors and backstabbed them all.
But worry not, if you are fan of Dwarf Fortress, it will release on steam soon with Graphics lol. inb4 Epic comes and take it away.
Not sure how they “lied” to their backers but I definitely see that they “backstabbed” them.
They promissed the GOG and Steam key and Linux version, none is happening. that’s a lie. and Fig is super hip, they are not backers, they are investors 😀
That would only be a lie if he set out to deliberately deceive people from the get-go. The wording of his statement and video suggests that negotiations with Epic Store occurred fairly recently and were concluded quickly. Therefore there is no evidence I can see of him having lied.
It may be an utter disgrace that he signed a contract that doesn’t honour what existing “investors” thought they were buying without now forcing them to wait a whole extra year for it but I’m still not seeing how any of that is lying.
I could see there being a case to argue that he may have deceived those people investing during the period in which he was secretly negotiating the deal with Epic Store though. However, I’m no lawyer and also haven’t read Fig’s terms and conditions so maybe until a contract is signed then Fig’s terms might not require full transparency. If they don’t then his conduct in remaining quiet during said period specifically while still taking money seemingly under false pretences would be seen by many people to be ethically unsound.
CPY and CODEX store, wait for me!
“Releasing a video game in today’s market is highly risky..” Then don’t be a game developer,just be a youtuber or doing other business…
Logic indeed. If you can’t take the heat, then gtfo of the kitchen.
Come on help the devs, they need your help and support, it’s the publisher uhm. F this scum and his team and his decision and his game.
More crying ignorant children. B***hing about exclusivity, but were strangely silent about the THOUSANDS of games that are exclusively available on Steam. F*k you all.
I will be playing this game day one and glad to do so knowing Julian and co have more capital to increase their investment into the game.
they are there because they wanted to be not because they sold their soul for a few extra dollars https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f941b6f90a9c59bf718aae9c00919e30db0c65ac4f2c1b71c5ad68ac1215cb86.jpg
Big difference. Valve has never made deals to keep games exclusively on Steam. For every single game on Steam, developers and publishers have been 100% free to sell it anywhere else as well.
Epic is paying money to make competing platforms worse rather than making its own better, and people are seriously defending this?
Found a shill everyone.
Now eat s**t and oof.
You’re beyond help and reason. So I won’t even bother. F*ck you instead.
“F*k you all”
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Go right ahead and give your credit card info to a sleazy company with a standing F rating at the BBB. This is the Epic company that I know, and you won’t be asking what’s in your wallet, you’ll be asking who’s in your wallet after the hackers breach them again.
be careful screwhead
Good one. If you’re going to spout BS at least have some minor semblance of what you’re talking about, your argument is irrefutably moot.
/yawn That’s nice. Won’t throw a penny at it on that garbage dump of a store.
Hay that is ok because I already have the Epic Launcher
WOW, a crowd funded game going Epic store exclusive, scumbags.
Wasn’t this game crowdfunded? There’s no risk there because the development wasn’t paid by the devs, they’re just talking more money and not wasting single dime, what a bunch of scumbags.
The list of devs/publishers I won’t be supporting going forward, is seemingly increasing by the weeks.
More money for those devs that give me the time of day I guess.
Up yours!
I have over 400 bought games. I will not give Tencent one cent though!
Now where are my “effects”.. Haven’t used them in decades. And oh, there should be a captain in there somewhere..