The video game industry is experiencing changes after the reality check of 2023 (which persists until this year) by failing to meet disproportionate goals. However, this has also had an impact at the level of agreements between publishers, developers and platform owners, such as in the indie scene that until a few years ago resorted to exclusivity or premiere deals on the Epic Games Store and Xbox Game Pass as a form of financing. , something that has already ended.
Freelance Devs No Longer Finding Good Exclusive Deals on Platforms or Services
A report from PCGamer shared the statements of developers of the indie games Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon during GDC 2024 who revealed that the times of the best financial deals with platforms such as Epic Games Store or Xbox Game Pass are behind us. At the beginning, Casey Yano, co-founder of Slay the Spire's Mega Crit studio, gave context about what the scene is currently experiencing: “I spoke to at least 5 small teams during GDC, and they only told me about cuts, cuts, canceled financing, conversations cancelled. It seems like everything right now is crap. We are definitely very privileged to be able to finance ourselves, otherwise I would be very, very, very scared right now.”
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“The gold rush is over,” says Darkest Dungeon director
Regarding the option of reaching an exclusivity agreement or immediate launch on the Epic Games Store or Xbox Game Pass, Chris Bourassa, director of Darkest Dungeon, revealed that the deals are increasingly lower and have lost appeal for independent developers: ” are very low. It also happened with Epic Games. The gold rush is over. Maybe we're in for another paradigm shift, but I definitely think the scale of the deals I'm hearing about is significantly smaller than in the big days. Certainly “We got our deal with Epic at the right time.”
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