Shroud explains why Epic Games will \u201csave\u201d PC gaming Epic Games \/ Twitch: ShroudThe Epic Games Store has faced widespread criticism from the PC gaming community since announcing its ambition to rival Steam, but top Twitch streamer Michael \u2018shroud\u2018 Grzesiek thinks it might be exactly what PC gaming needs. For over a decade, Valve\u2019s \u2018Steam\u2019 has been the number one store for buying PC games digitally, with everything from free-to-play indie games to triple A releases always ensuring they\u2019re available on Steam, in order to reach the biggest audience. The Epic Games Store has started securing more and more exclusives though, offering developers better splits of the revenue, and while some gamers see this as an aggressive tactic to force them into using Epic\u2019s launcher, shroud thinks it may be necessary for PC gaming\u2019s future. Discussing his anticipation for the Final Fantasy VII Remake, a viewer pointed out that it\u2019s \u201conly on PS4 at launch\u201d, to which shroud replied: \u201cIt\u2019s ok, Epic [Games] is going to save us.\u201d Shroud is suggesting that Epic Games may be in the process of securing timed PC exclusivity for FFVII Remake, after all, the game is made on Epic\u2019s own Unreal Engine. \u201cI don\u2019t think you guys realize how important Epic is to PC gaming,\u201d shroud continued. \u201cThey will literally save PC gaming \u2013 well, it hasn\u2019t really gone anywhere, but they\u2019re going to help it. Epic Games, bankrolled by their own massive financial success of Fortnite, now have the means to compete for the market share which Steam previously dominated. By offering developers better splits of revenue, Epic may entice developers and publishers who may have otherwise avoided making PC versions of their games altogether. Still, the community sentiment towards Epic is still overwhelmingly negative, partly because it doesn\u2019t have many of the features which Steam users have come to enjoy, such as full refunds for games if only played for a certain amount of time. Shroud thinks that the pushback against the Epic Games Store from gamers themselves is just down to a general dislike of \u2018change\u2019 though, rather than any inherit problem with the service itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shroud explains why Epic Games will \u201csave\u201d PC gaming Epic Games \/ Twitch: ShroudThe Epic Games Store has faced widespread criticism from the PC gaming community since announcing its ambition to rival Steam, but top Twitch streamer Michael \u2018shroud\u2018 Grzesiek thinks it might be exactly what PC gaming needs. For over a decade, Valve\u2019s \u2018Steam\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}