Epic Says Its Store Won't Sell 'Porn Games Or Bloatware'
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It’s been a big day for the Epic Games Store. During its GDC keynote, Epic
announced a boatload of new exclusives (including Detroit: Become An Epic
Games Store Exclusive) and a deal with Humble. Momentum appears to be on the
store’s side, with Epic now touting strong early sales and a more curated
approach than that of its main competitor, Steam.
Love or hate the current barebones Epic store, you can’t deny that a) it’s
making waves, and b) Epic execs sure have been talking about those waves.
Today, during the keynote, Epic Games Store head Steve Allison boasted that
Metro Exodus—which became a last-second Epic Games Store exclusive,
prompting an unusually pointed message from Valve and review bombs from Steam
users—sold 2.5 times as many copies at launch as its predecessor, Metro:
Last Light, did on Steam. “It’s really about your games, and not about the
store you sell it on,” said Allison.
This, in conjunction with Epic’s 88 percent revenue share (as opposed to
Steam’s default 70 percent), will likely make for intriguing news to game
makers worried about backlash and a potential loss of exposure that, some
feared, could result from moving from Steam to the Epic Games Store. That
said, Epic did not provide actual sales numbers, and it’s worth noting that
Last Light came out in 2013, during a different era of PC gaming. On top of
that, Exodus was a much larger production and got a marketing push from its
publisher to match.
Going forward, Epic said it intends to focus on quality over quantity—or,
more precisely, quality over anime porn. “We’ll have a quality standard
that doesn’t accept crappy games,” CEO Tim Sweeney told PC Gamer. “We’ll
accept reasonably good quality games, of any scale, whether small indie games
to huge triple-A games, and we’ll take everything up to, like, an R-rated
movie or an M-rated game.” He went on to draw the line at irritating or
illicit apps that piggyback on others—bloatware, as they’re sometimes known
—and other overtly explicit or low-quality games: “A GTA game would be fine
to us, but Epic’s not going to distribute porn games or bloatware or asset
flips, or any sort of thing that’s meant to shock players. The PC’s an open
platform, and if we don’t distribute it in our store you can still reach
consumers directly.”
In contrast, Steam has adopted an (almost) anything-goes policy over the past
year, with exceptions stemming from games that are “illegal, or straight up
trolling” or, evidently, people getting really, really mad at Valve. The two
companies are increasingly opposed in their approaches, recently coming to
figurative blows over usage of users’ data, as well.
The Epic Games Store is still very new, having only launched in December of
last year. It’s managed to lasso a handful of high-profile exclusives, but it
’s still relatively lacking in games and features. It remains to be seen
whether Epic can make good on its promises and maintain its momentum, but it’
s certainly shaking things up.
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标题的膨胀软件 (Bloatware) 是指占了内存和空间但用户用不到的软件，没意外就是
在酸Steam功能太多。
简单来说就是Epic的负责人Steve Allison在吹嘘。
抓几段来看....
他提到Metro Exodus销量是前一版Metro: Last Light的2.5倍。但Last Light是2013年于
Steam上架的游戏，那是另一个PC时代的事了。
总之因为我们Epic很棒，所以一定会有更多游戏厂商过来。
然后是这段....
Going forward, Epic said it intends to focus on quality over quantity—or,
more precisely, quality over anime porn. “We’ll have a quality standard
that doesn’t accept crappy games,” CEO Tim Sweeney told PC Gamer. “We’ll
accept reasonably good quality games, of any scale, whether small indie games
to huge triple-A games, and we’ll take everything up to, like, an R-rated
movie or an M-rated game.” He went on to draw the line at irritating or
illicit apps that piggyback on others—bloatware, as they’re sometimes known
—and other overtly explicit or low-quality games: “A GTA game would be fine
to us, but Epic’s not going to distribute porn games or bloatware or asset
flips, or any sort of thing that’s meant to shock players. The PC’s an open
platform, and if we don’t distribute it in our store you can still reach
consumers directly.”
展望前程，Epic说他会专注于品质而不是数量，或著更精确地说品质优于动画色情。“
我们有着不接受任何蹩脚游戏的品质要求。”Tim Sweeney如此对PC Gamer说道。“我们只
要相当优质的游戏，任何等级的都可以，从小型独立游戏到大型3A游戏，到任何我们能占
有的，像是R级电影或M级游戏。”他想要和那些刺激性或色情apps划清界线，像是那些大
家都知道的膨胀软件或著是明显低品质的游戏。“GTA类游戏对我们来说是好游戏，但
Epic不会上架色情游戏或膨胀软件又或著套模复制 (asset flips)，及任何会吓到玩家的
东西。PC是个开放的平台，就算我们不上架这些游戏，他们也有方式直接联系到玩家。
”
总之就是我Epic好棒棒，Steam好烂烂的吹嘘就是了....