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World of Goo 2 released [buy from website, devs get 100% of the earnings] (worldofgoo2.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Why is it on Epic and not on Steam?

World of Goo 2 would not exist if Epic had not helped us fund the game! We were able to hire artists and engineers for multiple years to help us build the biggest game we've ever made. We're grateful for this! You've likely seen similar arrangements with other games, and I imagine ours is comparable.

If you don't use Epic, that's ok. You can always get World of Goo 2 right here on this page, DRM-free, for Win / Mac / Linux. Just scroll up there. And if you have a Nintendo Switch, you can get it on the eShop directly on your device.

But I want to play it on my heavy computer that's strapped to my face and sprays pixels into my eyeballs.

Someone in Chapter 4 wants to have a conversation with you.

How did you fit so much goo into this game?

Computers have come a long way in the last 16 years!

I used to play the original World of Goo when I was a kid. Will this make me feel like a kid again?

You might be able to visit for a while.

I missed you, World of Goo!

We hope you will love it as much as we've loved building and discovering this new world! You can read our first interview about the game here.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (20 children)

The epic hate is tiresome. It sounds like they functioned as a publisher here, providing long term funding of development prior to release. The game isn't exclusive and has no DRM, I see no downside to this. Stop hopping on bandwagons of hate and enjoy your games people.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

Yeah, with a launcher- and DRM-free version, I think the hate is quite misplaced here. It's especially extreme on reddit. There is an irony of people who are supposedly against exclusivity writing things like "No steam no purchase.". I guarantee those people never complain about a Steam-exclusive game not being on GoG or EGS.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I guarantee those people never complain about a Steam-exclusive game not being on GoG or EGS.

Do you have any examples of Valve buying up studios and pulling them from other online stores?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

That's not the point, because that's not the situation here. The game isn't exclusive, wasn't pulled from any stores and was funded by Epic games. You don't see Valve-published or funded games on EGS either.

There are games where the criticism against Epic was completely valid. This isn't one of those.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I think it would be easier for me to empathize with the "exclusivity" argument if it weren't for the fact that PCs as a general rule are inherently open. I don't have to buy a new computer to install a new games launcher as I would with a console exclusives war. Hell most of the time you don't even have to install the official launcher as so many of them are just web wrappers/electron apps. I've been using the Heroic Games Launcher to claim my free Epic games for nearly a year and the only "downside", if you can even call it that, is that I don't get the weekly popup's letting me know what's free/on sale. Just building a huge library of free games, some of which I already own on Steam. Somebody please show me the actual downside of more competition on a single platform.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I didn't say it was the case here. I quoted the point I responded to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

My post was talking specifically about peoples' reactions to the World of Goo 2 launch though, including the part you quoted.

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