Oakville and East Coastway for £2.49 on Epic. Loads of locos and routes under £3 For those not playing on Steam go grab a bargain!!!
That seems incredibly cheap... Will the Epic versions work with Steam or must we wait and see what discounts they are going to offer?
The holiday sale on Epic Games Store will end at the 6th of January, 1500 UTC = 1600 CET, if I am not mistaken. To my knowledge, it is the first time at all that legacy stuff (DLCs released prior to TSW2) is on sale on Epic Games Store. Many of those products are up to 75%, a few even 90% off. So a nice opportunity for us Epic players to catch up. I am pretty sure that add-ons purchased on Epic Games Store cannot (legally) be mixed with products bought on Steam.
Yes it looks like Epic versions only work on Epic. Sadly I can't see Steam matching what appear to be pretty much firesale pricing levels.
That's exactly what I have been thinking when I was gazing at Steam Sale lists or Dovetail Store promotions, being excluded from both as an Epic player, not even being able to buy the four routes of the original (just recently removed) TSW for peanuts.. But don't worry, on the long run it will all balance out.
Damn, those are some good prices. Though I'm already a Steam user, but this is good news for the Epic folks.
Has anyone tried to purchase an Epic TSW add on and is running it on steam. Not sure why they wouldn’t work, just that Matt said on a stream they they wouldn’t. Crazy discounts far better than steam.
Well you can try it if you fancy wasting your money, lol. But I can assure you that they won't work properly, if at all.
You can copy the paks between the 2 versions (as long as the pak goes into the others 'pak' folder -- not dlc). Tested this and works fine. There is a huge caveat though...the platform which has the copied pak will not receive any updates, this only works on the platform it was purchased on (you can of course re-copy over the pak once it's been updated)
It would be possible to set up symbolic or hard links from the Epic DLC folder to the Steam pak folder so that everything is updated and read automatically. It would allow one to take advantage of the better prices on either store, but with such a Frankenstein set up there are bound to be issues down the road. Cheers
I would have thought the ever present danger if Steam detects something in your install that shouldn't be there, you'll be accused of bootlegging it and put your entire Steam account in jeopardy. So not really worth it, but memo to DTG marketing, after the pitiful Thanksgiving discounts let's see something a bit more substantial in a few days time - please.
This is something that bothers me a bit - recently all Steam sales were 20 % max, 35-50 % for the oldest stuff and only sometimes. Meanwhile, Epic sales are this crazy. I somewhat get why - it is Epic engine and their royalties are somewhat lower, but for people having the entirety of collection on Steam, sales have become very uninteresting. But hey, maybe we Steam users are just spoiled...
Really disappointing , I feel like a console player now in that I’m excluded and penalised for setting up a £700 collection so far on steam. I’d have bought a good 5-6 things from Epic. I hope steam offer something more than the £2 off things.
Don't be ridiculous. That's just the way it is. Epic has been known for offering really good sale prices, along with the usual free game offers. It's just their marketing strategy to get more people onto their platform. If their cheap offers gave you a Steam key as well, then it would be entirely pointless, as that wouldn't make you want to switch over to their platform.
While I agree, you can clearly see a shift in Steam sales. There used to be a lot larger discounts there and this abruptly ended when TSW2 came to Epic. You could find year-old DLCs at 35-50 % off, now basically all TSW2 original content is 20% off at best.
Epic sales aren't going to affect Steam sales, just like console store sales won't affect them either. They're separate platforms with their own sales policy. And I don't know what you are talking about, as there were a few add-ons for 50% off a few weeks ago (GWE, for example, I think?). That being said, I do hope there will be some good offers on the upcoming christmas Steam sale.
That's not necessarily true. Obviously console sales and PC sales aren't linked. However as Epic take lower cuts than Steam, it makes sense for DTG to encourage users to buy through Epic instead of Steam. It's entirely possible that DTGs strategy is to encourage people to buy through Epic as much as possible.
I would like a clear official stance on whether you can buy TSW2 content on epic and play them on steam and vice versa. Is it going to be stopped or not? We know it works currently, and you are legitimately purchasing it from one or the other of Steam and Epic, but if in the future there are plans to stop this from even functioning then it would be good to know.
The official stance will be simple: "No, it is not permitted". I imagine that Epics and Steams T&C's will also ban it
Epics and Steams T&C's do not necessarily ban it, I owned Hitman 1 and 2 and all their dlc on steam and when Hitman 3 came out it was an Epic exclusive and was able to transfer over all of Hitman 1 and 2 to Epic for free as well as my progress when i bought Hitman 3 on Epic Edit: this was done via an IO Interactive account which both my steam and epic accounts were linked, but this is similar to Dovetail Live
also from this article about the situation https://www.pcgamesn.com/hitman-3/epic-steam-import Epic CEO Tim Sweeney responded to this story on Twitter, explaining: “Sorry, the team is looking into this with IO. It’s never Epic’s intent to create a situation where someone who owns a game on Steam would have to buy it again on Epic Games Store to get the full benefits of it.”
Well that would be good to get some clarity on this from TrainSim-Matt or DTG Natster before the epic sale expires on the 6th if possible please. There are several things I would like to pick up but not if I can't use under my existing amount of content. Interesting that the Epic CEO doesn't mind but I guess it needs to go the other way too.
No plans for this to change in the immediate future, I'll flag that article up to the retail team for discussion but expect nothing to change on this front unless / until there's an update briefing otherwise. It makes sense to me, and I like the idea of doing it via DTL, but there maybe other constraints to consider (these things are rarely as straight forward as they look).
Sorry I think I misread this but did you say you feel like a console player now! In the last year we've (Xbox) had one sale. One. And now a different platform is having really good sale and you decide that as you only get sales with slightly less discounts, although as often, you are hard done by. Feel some sympathy for the Xbox users!
That's correct yes. When I first saw the difference in the Steam prices vs Epic my first thought was , now I know why the Xbox owners get annoyed at Steam and PC. I had this on Xbox myself but bought PC and collection here and then to see the collection at fire sale prices I had a little swear. Luckily (again not for Xbox unfortunately) the Steam sale brought in some good prices too
