Super Meat Boy Forever will be exclusive to the Epic Games Store

Team Meat and Epic Games want to bet hard to get the nuts to Steam and improve conditions when dealing with the developer community.

Right now the Epic Games game store has just come to light. Based on the popularity of Fortnite and the developers who use Unreal Engine, they can become a viable alternative when it comes to achieving an environment with better competition when it comes to distributing PC games. They are so confident in the idea that they have bet heavily on a year-long exclusivity in their own store with Super Meat Boy Forever.

With a planned departure date of April 2019,
Tommy Refenes, creator of Super Meat Boy, has confirmed through the Discord channel of Epic Games that during the first year the game will be available only and exclusively in the Epic store, making that the game cannot be purchased on Steam at less until April 2020, an amount of time that may be a long time for those planning to get hold of this game.

Epic Games wants to face Steam with exclusivities

This is not a purely economic movement, but in addition to being economically viable for the studio, they have confirmed that it has an ideological side. In his words, “The new store needs Steam to give more than shit” and therefore this window of exclusivity, even admitting that there would be many people who do not like it.

Honestly, all healthy competition is good for the consumer despite the fact that we will end up having to handle several game launchers, but if in return we get them to treat the developers better, it is something that does not cost that much. Other games have already left Steam completely, as they already did 
Satisfactory completely abandoned Steam in favor of Epic, but this is perhaps the biggest to do so and possibly not the last.

Many developers are already betting heavily on Epic, which indicates that there were really many complaints within companies about the Steam ecosystem and this will serve as a wake-up call for Valve to get the batteries and respond to requests from game creators .

Source | PCGamer