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Sure Origin was a failure, but that much of one? Anyone remembers "only on Origin".
by mxfh 6y ago
Sure Origin was a failure, but that much of one?
Anyone remembers "only on Origin".
- n42 6y agothose were all EA titles, so EA had their own publisher exclusive marketplace. Tim Sweeney introduced buying out third-party publishers with exclusivity clauses. edit: there's a good analogy in another thread -- only being able to buy a Nintendo game at GameStop and not Best Buy.
- slavik81 6y agoTo be clear, you'd be perfectly happy if Epic bought the developers outright and made the games exclusive to the Epic store? To me, that seems like the same end result for consumers.
- Macha 6y agoThis is equally unpopular when it's happening to Rocket League. At the same time, nobody really cared about Nintendo making Bayonetta 2. I think the problem is with taking away something that was already available or announced to be coming, and people have less problems with funding new things with strings attached.
- n42 6y agono, I would not, but it is also not what we were discussing.
- hnick 6y agoBattle.net is a store with de facto exclusivity too under those standards, and is less of a failure.