Quote Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda View Post
Well... in the case of the Epic Game Store. Would anyone outside of Fortnite players have used it if they didn't dump all that money buying timed exclusives? It's kind of the only thing that gave that platform any kind of relevancy to gamers. More of each sale going to the publisher/developer doesn't mean much if consumers won't even look at the store because they already have one that they'd been buying games from for years. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft seeing this wasn't one of the reasons for their recent developer acquisition moves.

FFXVI being a timed PS5 exclusive with claims a PC version will come some time beyond the timed exclusivity window to me indicates they may need all that time to port it to PC in a playable state for most common hardware configurations. This being because I'm expecting the title to take a considerable amount of storage space simply due to the detail on the visuals we've seen in screenshots and teasers. Unless ppl really want to play it in the same state as the PS4 version of Cyberpunk 2077 was at it's launch lol.
Epic hemorages a looooooooooot of money to get people on their platform, my plethora of free games is testemant of that.

But thats more an epic problem and less so for the devs they pay to be there.