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FINAL FANTASY XVI available on PC September 17th (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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$50 for the base game, $70 with DLC included.

Steam link provided. Also available on Epic.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Epic never expected to make money on exclusives. They were using them as a loss-leader to force people to use their shitty store. Fortunately it looks like they've lost enough money to make them stop or at least cut back on their shenanigans.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

The loss leader strategy hasn't worked, is what I meant. They said in an article in the past few days, quite explicitly, that that strategy isn't even working for whatever ill-advised loss leader strategy they're up to in order to acquire users.