CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney has said that Epic Games Store will not allow sales of crappy games and it will have a strict policy on the matter. This was revealed by him to PC Gamer who asked Tim about Epic’s strategy of allowing developers to sell their titles through Epic Games Store. Tim has clearly mentioned that the store will not accept any crappy games.
This statement comes after recently a rape game was allowed on Steam and fans were worried that Steam allowed such a title to be released through its platform. Tim has mentioned in his statement that all crappy game especially any sort of porn games will not be sold on Epic Games Store.
Steam earlier had a very strict policy when it comes to game sales through its digital store. First, this was handled by Valve directly, then it was through Greenlight. Now anyone who can pay $100 fee to Valve can sell their title to Steam. Maybe this is the reason why we have so many substandard games on Steam now.
Epic is gaining traction with its digital store and more and more developers are jumping on board with them. The biggest leap for them is getting PC exclusivity for all Ubisoft titles and the recent announcement of all Quantum Dream’s exclusive PS titles coming to PC via Epic Games Store.
Tim’s words to PC Gamer regarding which titles will be allowed on the Epic Games Store were:
We’ll have a quality standard that doesn’t accept crappy games. We’ll accept reasonably good quality games, of any scale, whether small indie games to huge triple-A games, and we’ll take everything up to, like, an R-rated movie or an M-rated game. A GTA game would be fine to us, but Epic’s not going to distribute porn games or bloatware or asset flips, or any sort of thing that’s meant to shock players. The PC’s an open platform and if we don’t distribute it in our store you can still reach consumers directly.
This shows that Tim Sweeney’s wants to make Epic Games Store a much safer experience for its consumers as well when it comes to content. Steam’s policy of allowing games by simply accepting a fee and then removing the content later from the store if there is too much outcry about it is not very effective and we have seen it in the past.
For more details on what Tim Sweeney had to say, head over to PC Gamer and read the complete discussion in detail.
Who do you think is taking the right way when it comes to allowing video games to be sold on their digital store? Do you think Steam has a better strategy or Epic is going the right way? Share with us in the comments section below.
