As you might already know, The Outer Worlds has been locked into a one-year PC sorta-exclusivity deal with Epic Games, making the PC version of the game only available on the Epic launcher and the Windows store, releasing on Steam exactly one year later.

Just so we’re aware, THIS WASN’T OBSIDIAN’S CHOICE.

The deal was worked out between Epic Games and 2K’s Private Division, the current publisher for Obsidian. This deal overall is most likely going to fuck sales, with the lack of a players using the Epic Launcher for most of their games, gamer’s reluctance to have more than 1-2 game launchers, and the Epic Launcher just overall being a shit platform and extremely inferior to Steam, and barely anyone using the Microsoft store for games.

Oh, and Epic Games being sketchy as shit with their business practices and how they handle user’s data (like collecting data from Steam without their knowledge or permission).

All of this combined is going to make PC sales for The Outer Worlds absolutely tank, and they most likely won’t get much better when it finally does come to Steam, as all the hyper will have worn off within 12 months.

THANKS 2K

TLJ heartbreak thought of the day: Rey’s denial of being abandoned by her family and inability to face the painful truth of her situation on Jakku was so extreme that the fandom consensus on her coping behaviors– marking her walls for thousands and thousands of days, refusing to leave the planet because doing so would mean admitting they were never coming back, wearing adult sized versions of the same clothes and hairstyle she had on the day her parents left her so they would recognize her when they returned– were residual signs or side effects of some force user having used mind control on her when she was a child.  Even the people who didn’t think she was Luke’s daughter figured someone who sensed her potential had been tinkering around in her head and that’s what “I’ve already been away too long–” was all about.  Sometimes in fairy tales we talk about someone being under a magic spell or a curse as a metaphor for trauma, but sometimes it’s just trauma. 

is that i have been involved with the creation of something top secret that will premiere on netflix in 2019. it is something that will be handmade over the next two years and is based on something i loved as a boy. it is an honor to be a part of this, and to work for the creators/developers of the series - jeff addiss and will matthews - our director/showrunner - louis letterier -and the jim henson company in making this a reality. 2019 can’t come soon enough!

WHAT!!!!!!!!!

wait whAT