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How is the game being available make people wait? Did PC get the release before consoles?
Steam customers are out of the loop. We could access the game through epic store, but it's a separate account, and not everybody has/want one. Hence the wait to release on Steam.
So he didn’t make anyone wait, some people just chose to
For small indies it makes sense to publish on the pc epic game store a year earlier to get fundet for simply releasing the game there earlier.
A lot of smaller indies used that time as a kind of early access and got later super popular on steam, the main pc game store.
But for a big studio to do something like this is scummy
They already have a playerbase and a big budget
I dont even know if payment was involved but there is no other reason i can think of that explains this