Originally posted by CalistriX:

Did Steam miss out on the jackpot by not signing Respawn Entertainment?

You do know Respawn Entertainment is owned by Electronic Arts right?

Originally posted by BloodShed:

Originally posted by CalistriX:

Did Steam miss out on the jackpot by not signing Respawn Entertainment?

You do know Respawn Entertainment is owned by Electronic Arts right?

Yes but Steam could have signed them before Electronic Arts.

They bought Respawn Entertainment two years ago.

Being free to play and battle royal, it will just pull people in like a blackhole. I think EA has hit the jackpot with this game to be honest.

Originally posted by CalistriX:

Originally posted by BloodShed:

You do know Respawn Entertainment is owned by Electronic Arts right?

Yes but Steam could have signed them before Electronic Arts.

They bought Respawn Entertainment two years ago.

Still doesn't change that fact that Electronic Arts is the publisher and parent company of Respawn Entertainment.

Meaning that Apex Legends and the Titan Fall series will never be on Steam.

Originally posted by Rodney:

Apex Legends runs on the Source engine, so I wonder if Valve got any money from them for using their engine.

Of course they did. You can't just use a game engine to make your own (for-profit) game without licensing it. Respawn/EA would have been sued if they tried to use the Source engine without paying for the permission to use it first.

Originally posted by BloodShed:

Originally posted by CalistriX:

Yes but Steam could have signed them before Electronic Arts.

They bought Respawn Entertainment two years ago.

Still doesn't change that fact that Electronic Arts is the publisher and parent company of Respawn Entertainment.

Meaning that Apex Legends and the Titan Fall series will never be on Steam.

We are aware that it won't be on Steam, that is why I am referring to past tense and asking if Steam had missed out on the jackpot by not signing them?

honestly , its an EA game on origin
i dont have a problem with that , and i dont really care if i have to use origin for it , origin is free , has paysafecard support , has a competent support ( had to use their chat support for a game that was crashing , worked again after 10 minutes

i dont mind using origin to be honest

Originally posted by TVMAN:

Originally posted by Rodney:

Apex Legends runs on the Source engine, so I wonder if Valve got any money from them for using their engine.

Of course they did. You can't just use a game engine to make your own (for-profit) game without licensing it. Respawn/EA would have been sued if they tried to use the Source engine without paying for the permission to use it first.

Depend on how much cash was added you can buy out a license. Many companies done this with the unreal engine. Example firaxis did this for xcom:eu, them don't have to give any money to epic games to use the engine. If EA is paying royalty doesn't it mean that technically the game is owned by valve even if another company selling the game on another platform, in the end origin isn't much different from steam.

I think Steam is gonna miss out on a lot more in the next few years....

Originally posted by Daynox:

I think Steam is gonna miss out on a lot more in the next few years....

not really , if activision decides to keep cod on battle.net , people can atleast stop crying how steam is filled with trash , and for other games , steam has 30k games , its unlikely for us to run out of stuff to play

I'm still not taken in by this whole battle royale craze, tried fortnite and thought it was meh.

Originally posted by 💕 𝓑𝓾𝓷 💕:

I'm still not taken in by this whole battle royale craze, tried fortnite and thought it was meh.

i was the same but i have to admit , apex is a solid game, if it now was just like cod , where you start with a gun you select and have a normal map size , it would be amazing

Let's hope Apex does fine. Maybe they're the "savior".

Originally posted by Rikka Takanashi:

Originally posted by 💕 𝓑𝓾𝓷 💕:

I'm still not taken in by this whole battle royale craze, tried fortnite and thought it was meh.

i was the same but i have to admit , apex is a solid game, if it now was just like cod , where you start with a gun you select and have a normal map size , it would be amazing

I agree with Rikka here, Apex is the only BR game ive ever really enjoyed.

Originally posted by Rikka Takanashi:

Originally posted by Daynox:

I think Steam is gonna miss out on a lot more in the next few years....

not really , if activision decides to keep cod on battle.net , people can atleast stop crying how steam is filled with trash , and for other games , steam has 30k games , its unlikely for us to run out of stuff to play

It's not just them... some big name games coming.. And not on Steam.