Company still willing to sign deals with willing participants
A fewweeks back, Epic Games’ Steve Allison spoketo PCWorldabout the exclusive deals it was striking with publishers to get games on its platform. Allison stated, “We will definitely not be doing exclusives at this scale for a long period of time.” A few days after that statement, Epicsigned a deal with the developers behindObservationthat was essentially a repeat of the situation withMetro Exodus.
In response to a fan inquiryon Twitter about the matter, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said, “We’ve had a lot of discussions about this since GDC. Epic is open to continuing to sign funding/exclusivity deals with willing developers and publishers regardless of their previous plans or announcements around Steam.” Referring back to Allison’s stance, Sweeney continued, “This prompted further discussions at Epic, leading to the realization that these calls must be up to developers and publishers, and Epic wouldn’t tell them “no” on account of existing statements made about Steam.”
To clarify, this all happened before Gearbox’s announcement ofBorderlands 3being exclusive to Epic’s storefront for six monthsthis morning. So despite previously claiming that it would be backing off on gathering so many exclusives, Epic is now ready to take more exclusives. And the world keeps turning…
Epic will continue to sign exclusives, even for games already on Steam[PC Gamer]
