I think you have misread what I said. GOG doesn’t have H3 (and likely never will without offline mode being made better), and GOG Connect worked in much the same way the IOI transfers worked. Their blogpost namedrops that developers were contacted for this service to exist, but not Valve.
Again, I don’t think Valve cares that much. They know their position, they know it’s an exception to their rule.
They also hold a de-facto monopoly on PC Gaming storefronts. Steam is ingrained into PC culture, and many have tried and most have failed to compete with them; instead offering alliances or being a side-service. Either way, the only way to satiate rabid fans and defenders that claim Valve can do no wrong is to find other ways of appealing to them. I don’t think Epic are trying to hide their alternative methods, because they know as much as anyone else that’s how you defeat a stronger opponent when nothing else you do will work…
(I spent a solid 25 minutes on that compression and good god did it come out horribly).
I don’t see what Valve has to gain by giving away copies of the game just because you own it via a different storefront. Valve gets a percentage of whatever is sold through Steam, just like Epic gets a percentage of whatever is sold through EGS. The only way that giving copies of the game away would make sense is if IOI gave Valve their percentage instead of the players.
What is more likely to happen is that there will be a GOTY edition available on Steam. Maybe they’ll work out some way of discounting it, maybe they’ll tie it into some sort of season pass/DLC access thing where the core game itself is basically free but all of the year 2 content is what we pay for. Maybe it’ll just be a case of “buy the game twice”. We don’t know yet and won’t know until IOI releases some sort of additional info.
In the old days if I bought a game from Best Buy, I wasn’t entitled to run over to Circuit City and get another copy for free. This is exactly the same thing.
Actually, Steam leaves it 100% on the Dev’s choice. IOI can absolutely give the steam version to Epic buyers if they want to, there’s nothing stopping them but themselves.
Generally there are no restrictions other then in cases of abuse of the steam trading cards feature (like, say, a sec generating half a million keys and giving them to bots to generate cards). Though in IOI’s case generating keys is not at all required. In Hitman 2 you could start the free starter pack, login to your IOI account, and it would automatically redeem your owned content into your steam account. Same can be done here.
I agreed. H3 won the PSVR GOTY mainly because of his scope than on VR features. Just for the technical achievement they deserved this award imo. And the performance gain has been beneficial in other areas/platforms.
