Interesting - Epic and Psyonix go way back, as Psyonix worked on the vehicle physics for Unreal Tournament 2004 and Rocket League, or rather its predecessor Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars, started life as a UT2004 mod - and of course Rocket League is made in the Unreal Engine. So it's kind of a natural partnership - I'm a bit surprised that Rocket League wasn't developed with Epic in the first place, but I guess they were busy with Gears of War for Microsoft for quite a while there - it's just unfortunate that this is the next step in their aggressive approach to pursuing Epic Store exclusives. After four years on Steam there's no reason to stop selling the game there.
So what happens when the game is de-listed from Steam? Is the license still valid? Do you have to transfer your license to EGS? How about matchmaking and online play?
As per article - nothing changes. You still own it on Steam, you still play it through Steam, matchmaking and online still done through Psyonix servers because it always was - I mean if you can play between Steam and Switch then playing between Steam and Epic Games Launcher is not going to be a problem - and the game will still be updated on Steam. Literally the only thing that will change is it will no longer be for sale on the Steam store so new buyers will have to buy it through Epic.
Yo, all blind Epic Games haters.
Why y’all hating on Epic Games anyway?
You guys have to stop sucking steam's dick.
Then why you don’t say that to R*, Nintendo, Sony?
That’s pretty hypocritical.
If we're going with that crude an analogy, it's better to suck a dick willingly than to have a dick rammed down your throat.
It's perfectly fine if Epic wants to create their own launcher and start their own store - they've had their own launcher for years with games like Unreal Tournament and Paragon on it and no one complained about that, and no one complained when they released Fortnite only through the Epic Launcher on PC - it was their game and they earned its success.
It's also perfectly fine if they want to charge developers only 12% for selling on their store, and if they attract developers away from Steam because of that, then great. Eventually developers might stop selling on Steam completely, but in the short term they're still going to sell on Steam as well because it's better to have 70% of lots of sales than 88% of a few sales.
But what Epic are doing is aggressive and arguable anti-consumerist, and that's why people are hating on them. It's not hypocritical because Rockstar, Nintendo and Sony aren't doing the same thing - if they were, people would be hating on them too.
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