
Alright look, i won’t see here and act like I’m not biased. I love Steam, always have and always will. But after becoming angry after hearing about “The Outer Worlds” becoming an Epic Store exclusive for 12 months i decided to look into the real problem.

Money
The real issue comes down to money, Steam is asking 30% of sales to go straight into their pockets. you can love Steam as a platform as much as you want but this is a real problem. You can’t blame companies for looking for ways to make more money from the sale of the game, and we can whine all we want but the real issue falls into the hands of Valve and how they will respond to the AAA games moving onto a new store.

What do we do?
Don’t buy the game? i mean realistically that’s all you can do. I for one have no reason to not purchase this game other then me believing the Epic Store isn’t ready for such high selling titles to be on it’s platform just yet. The security and ease of use just isn’t as polished as it is on Steam. But the problem we should have is companies using Steam as a marketing tool.

Marketing
The real problem that i believe we all have is companies using a “gamer favorite” site/store such as Steam to get us hyped about a product and then at the last second pulling it, or doing a timed exclusive. I don’t have a problem with a company wanting a better profit split from a game they make, nor do i think us as gamers mind. But using Steam as a way to get eyes on your game to then pull it, will always get me upset, upset enough to write a whole blog post about it. All we can do is hope that Valve and Steam will figure this out. Being the fan favorite will only last for so long before other companies turn to where the money is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3cRpYGVPsU
If you wanted to take a look at the game but haven’t, here is Game Informers gameplay trailer of it.