Ghost Recon Breakpoint an Epic Games Store Exclusive [May 10, 2019, 10:34 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The
Epic Games Store now offers preorders of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Breakpoint, Ubisoft's just-announced
military shooter sequel. This reveals an increasing familiar scenario where the game
will be exclusive to Epic's store and Uplay.
PCGamesN
has a confirmation of this from Ubisoft, noting it isn't a huge surprise
following how Ubisoft
stopped selling
Anno 1800 and
The
Division 2 on Steam to make both games EGS exclusives. The standard edition
of Breakpoint is listed at $59.99 USD, so consumers are yet to see any trickle
down benefit from the discounted royalty structure that's behind such
exclusives.
Beamer wrote on May 10, 2019, 11:34:Bill Borre wrote on May 10, 2019, 10:58:consumers are yet to see any trickle down benefit from the discounted royalty structure that's behind such exclusives
Nor will they.
Only if you assume the only benefit is reduced prices. Which, for some reason, many people do think that's the only possible benefit. Probably because it's the easiest to see. Doesn't mean other benefits won't show up.
More revenue for devs means fewer devs going out of business, and more games. That sounds good to me.
And yes, I understand that C-execs take a lot of that, but there's still more there to prevent shops from going bankrupt.
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