Phoenix Point Epic Store Exclusivity and the Gamers Are So Angry - Ultimate Guide

The video game Chaos Reborn, was an updated version of a 1985 title of Gallopestuvo in Early Access on Steam within 6 months, and was released completely in a year, after its release the video game also managed to be a success.

So it's not uncommon for players to back Phoenix Point, a spiritual successor to X-COM, when Snapshot took him to Fig in April 2017.

The financing campaigns are similar to crowdfunding, only that they have an additional element, the financing of the investment.

The financing of the investment is when the sponsors decide to invest in the product, and later it is paid with interest.

Snapshot Games secured $ 484,000 in investment funds and $ 454,077 in rewards funds. For its part, Snapshot Games got $ 484,000 in investment funds and $ 454,077 in rewards funds.

However, the studio rained some problems after announcing that his next video game would be available only in the Epic Store during the first 12 months.

The investors and supporters of the game were not happy with this, so the developers had to opt for Reddit for an AMA, to try to clarify things.

According to the campaign of the game in Fig, it was established that the sponsors could receive their game by Steam or gog.com, these platforms have more experience and enjoy much more confidence than Epic Store.

Gog was founded in February 2008, while Steam has been present since September 2003. The Epic Game Store, meanwhile, did not even exist when the crowdfunding campaign was launched, in fact, Epic Game Store exists from the December of 2018 and only has a search function.

But fans that is what less confidence generates Epic Store, but also faces accusations of being a spyware and that without naming that it has several obvious security problems, which despite being evident have not been eradicated.

Julian Gallop answered some questions during the session that the AMA developers organized on Reddit, saying:

"Phoenix Point will be free of DRM and will run without the Epic Launcher, you can uninstall it after downloading or updating, and the game will work fine, you can even add it manually to your Steam library." He continued. "If you just want to play on Steam / gog.com, you will get a Steam / gog key after the exclusive year has ended, which will include all the DLC up to that point."

The problem is that most of the players who have shown their support for the next title do not want to wait until next year, on all those who showed their support when the game was released about 2 years ago.

They just want to have it for a store with greater support, or have a refund, which generates another problem.

The video games that have offered reimbursement when their players do not want to use the Epic Store, bring them the worry that their identity and their personal data may be exposed.

The platforms for making refunds usually require that they be provided with bank details so that they can process this operation and that is where the applicant's identity may be compromised.

It is not the same to make a refund for a platform that requires your personal data to be able to process it, than, for a platform of means of payment such as PayPal, in which only the email associated with the account is needed to make the payment.

But Snapshot made the mistake of linking Trust Pilot's 5-star rating by trying to convince users that TransferWise was a reliable and secure platform.

Immediately the users said that Trust Pilot did not have a very favorable opinion of The Epic Games Store.

When the developers began to organize this gold to try to clarify things, we all expected an interactive forum where we could all really receive the answers we were looking for. In contrast, we received very few responses accompanied by a disturbing silence.

All we are told is that sponsors will be offered a Steam or GOG key, but only after the 12-month exclusivity agreement ends.

Among the things that they also said is that the game will not have DRM, and also that the sponsors will get the free 1-year DLC saying that: the offer of one year of free DLC, plus a Steam / gog key at the end of it, It's a good offer for the inconvenience caused. "