Cowcat Games (developer of games like Demetrios and Brok), one of the indie developers I followed, was recently listed on the Epic Games Store. In January, he filed an application to have brok in the store, and when he didn’t get a response, he said, “So they’re not interested, it’s predictable because they only care when a game becomes popular. Let them get the hell out of here.”
“I’m going to care when they’re more open to indie games and they stop reducing our value with coupons and free games,” he concluded.
I don’t know if I agree. After all, epic games already pays a lot of money to the developer of the game in what he calls “free game” gifts. That’s the only way cowcat expressed his anger when he didn’t get a response to his application.
But this system, which he complains about, is about to change, and Epic Games is starting to test a system that will allow developers to release their own games on the Epic Games Store. Developers will be able to create their own game pages, achievements, pricing, discount offers, etc., and upload updates directly to the system.
Until now, Epic’s own team had been handling all of these operations, so the number of games added to the system wasn’t growing very quickly. Epic says that with this new system, the Epic Games Store will grow very quickly.
Of course, there is also a slight disadvantage for players like us, since the games in the Epic Games Store go through the curative process, you see explanations in Turkish no matter which game you enter on the page, because the Epic team also handles its translation into all languages. But developers won’t pay attention to it when they create their own game pages, which means that just like steam, we’ll encounter a lot of pages that don’t have language support.