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I think the real question is, can we add it into Steam as a non-Steam game, so that we can then add that into GOG Galaxy? 🤔

I want Steam in Epic, and Origin in Steam. A human centipede of game launchers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n4JAhskw0k

you straight up nailed it. it gets people talking, but i doubt anyone is actually gonna get any use out of it.

True that. Though despite the fiasco with crowdfunded games going timed-exclusive with Epic, having Epic potentially boosting potential talent up from Itch.io relative obscurity is a nice thought. I mean sure it's all business and money and not about the goodness of their little hearts, but there's a chance it might serve to springboard some people more into the spotlight. It would be rare, but Epic as a well-oiled money machine would be quite invested in sniffing out the potential gold nuggets from the indie swamps, where usually people can struggle getting established. Yeah, that might mean they'll be timed exclusives too, but this seems massively less likely to be a broken backer-promise.

Besides, as I interpretted it (pinch of salt on standby), Epic 'funded' certain games under development by essentially pre-purchasing a number of units to help them get to the finish line. That'd be their part of the exchange for the timed exclusive. Epic takes the risk of the unfinished project going totally belly-up, being a barely functional husk, or just being plain terrible and not selling at the launch price, and the dev signs the timed exclusive. Supposing there aren't more predatory things going on under the hood, that seems like a decent exchange when you consider you get a bit of exposure on their less-populated storefront, and the game has a bit more juice to make it to launch.

I caution against the predatory things, because I still remember early on where there was some apparent clashing over Epic's first big christmas sale, where certain prices weren't agreed upon, which makes me think there was a dispute over the whole £10 off games above X price thing, perhaps from whose pocket it was coming out of? I dunno.

A bit weird to do the launcher-within-a-launcher thing but meh, if it helps the small fries boost into the limelight and they're not getting totally sharked in the process, I'm gonna stay hopeful.

Have you had a bitter experience somewhere? What's with the negativity?

For us, none. For itch, publicity - people will actually notice and investigate