Some indie developers have revealed that deals regarding Xbox Game Pass and Epic Games Store exclusivity have dried up and aren’t nearly as lucrative as they were before.
At the Game Developers Conference 2024, Darkest Dungeon director Chris Bourassa said that Microsoft has decreased the scope for getting games onto Game Pass since the service began, and Epic Games has done similar things when it came to securing exclusives for its PC storefront.
“The Gold Rush is over. I come from the Northwest Territories. The town I’m from was built on gold, and then they found diamonds further north,” Bourassa explained. “Maybe another paradigm shift is waiting for us, but I definitely think the scale of the deals I’m hearing about is significantly diminished from the big swinging days. Certainly we got our Epic [deal] at the right time.”
If indie games on game pass dry up, my subscription dries up.
After the 3 years I got on that $1 upgrade deal end.
I keep buying 5-7 dollar three month Xbox live gold codes on eneba. They end up converting to 50 days of gamepass. I do agree that more stuff I want to play needs to come out for me to keep doing that because steam has been eating up my gaming time lately.
Hard to sustain the huge amount of money that Epic was handing out at the beginning of their storefront.
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