After Epic Undercut Steam, Discord Tries To One-Up Both PC Game Stores

Epic and Discord are good for competition, but they are quite silly at the same time. Epic simply can't take on Steam or GOG. Where was Epic when the PC platform wasn't as huge a platform as it is today, or when devs weren't bringing all of their third-party titles to the platform - they were too bust making Gear of War for Xbox that's where. Now the PC is the flavor because of Steam and GOG and now they decide that they want a piece. As far as I'm concerned it's much too late. Valve made Steam because Microsoft wouldn't and they got tired of the PC being ignored for various reasons compared to consoles, so they did something about it and they did it because they cared for the platform as does CD Project RED.

Companies like EA, Ubisoft, and now Epic just want to cash in because they're jealous of what Valve has done for the platform but it ain't genuine. Out of the three other stores that I mentioned EA has become okay now, they understand how to please PC Gamers much better today and they did have the foresight to include returns for purchases, so Origin I think is okay as well, but I don't visit them nearly as much as Steam and GOG. Japan has embraced the PC platform because of Steam alone. Hopefully their devs will start to work with GOG a bit more in the future.

I dont see how this is a challenge to EPIC, since Tencent owns stakes in both and Tencent settles for nothing less than 100% share holder rights, besides Epics aims to challenge the google store as well since a lot of content there is developed using unreal engine.

Only HC steam dinosaurs will wave their Steam flags saying they are not going anywhere because they have 100 game libraries. The ice age of steam has begun.

2019 doesnt look good for steam, they shelved their failed steamboxes and VR never took off.

Cant find anywhere on how both Epic and discord will handle key resellers since they are the ones that hurt developers the most. While services like steam blame it on piracy to hide the fact they take their 30% from resold keys with no shame while offering zero support to developers.

Great, more clutter in the marketplace. Soon I'm going to need a hard drive just to handle all the stores and game loaders.

IMO, GoG/Galaxy is where it's at. I dunno about how much of a cut they take from developers who distribute games on their platform, but they're definitely the most pro-consumer DD platform currently on the market. No pointless intrusive DRM to get between honest gamers and the experience which hackers just scrub away anyhow, no spyware/adware, no mandatory installation of resource-draining software, just a simple transaction in which you buy the game then download/install it directly to your PC. What's more, in their effort to continuously provide gamers with unprecedented bang for their buck, even when they don't stand to make any immediate profit from it, they're now working with developers to allow folks who bought copies of games on Steam to link their Steam account to GoG to receive free copies of games in their Steam Library on GoG!

So yeah, while I think it's nice that other DD platforms are offering developers much smaller fees to distribute games in their platform and giving the stagnating shovelware platform known as Steam a much-needed run for its money, as a consumer, I gotta go with the DD platform that is putting me first, and that's GoG/Galaxy.

Meh. GoG or it didn't happen. I want to OWN my games, not be told how and when to play them.

developers releasing only on their own platform will lose more money than using steam...sorry blizzard. not using your app.

As a bug Steam user, Valve is at a crossroads. They need to do something to make the platform more appealing if they're going to remain relevant.

Competition is good and all that jazz, but Steam should have an advantage. They should be pricing distribution at a level that makes startup services for these devs unappealing.

That discord rep is right: I dont want 15 different launchers just so I can play different stuff. Not sure what the solution is but I'm disappointed with Valve.

The console platform holders and Apple must be super happy that they can still force the 70/30 split as devs have no other choice if they want to be on that platform.

To be fair the 30% cut wasn't so bad when it actually came with benefits. Back when there was some proper curation going on and being on steam actually meant something. At this point though Steam either needs to reduce the cut they take alongside these other groups or step up and actually provide a service worthy of the cut they are taking.

This is golden.

This is nothing but good news. Finally some competition for Steam. Maybe now they'll finally get around to vetting their content.

You still end up paying more to discord than the Epic Games store if you use the Unreal Engine, Unity or Cry Engine due to the cut they take.