Epic Games Store will enforce a ‘reasonably high quality filter’

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Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney has stated that there will be Epic Games Store moderators who will be enforcing a “reasonably high quality filter” on games that will appear on the store. That’s right: the man behind the folks who’ve brought you Fortnite, the Unreal Engine, and so much more has essentially declared the Epic Games Store a shovelware-free zone. The company will be maintaining a strict focus on quality games that their customers will enjoy — even when they eventually create a self-publishing system.

“So we’re not going to see asset flips, and we’re going to explicitly say no to porn games or other intentionally controversial games,” Sweeney told Gamasutra. “We’re perfectly fine with M-rated experiences like GTA or Far Cry, but we’re not the place for the other stuff. For the bigger anti-social things.”


Key to their strategy will be a team of Epic Games Store moderators who will actually enforce these policies. It’s pretty easy going right now as they are only accepting submissions from established developers, but they eventually plan to open up the store to self-publishing. It will, of course, come with several caveats, with one of those being a mandate for quality games only. Hopefully, Mr. Sweeney believes that the Epic Games Store moderators will be able to uphold an “Epic quality standard.”

“We’re not discriminating against any games based on their speech because the PC is an open platform,” Mr. Sweeney continued. “If we don’t choose to carry their game, they can release it directly to customers, or sell it through other stores if they choose.”


The Epic Games Store has its fair share of problems and plenty of people willing to criticize them, but the future of the store will be shaped so that game quality isn’t one of them. Between the plans for Epic Games Store moderators and a number of other features outlined on their roadmap, it may very well shape up to be a halfway decent digital game store in a year or two.



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HiPosted:

That's great. This is how it should be.

LoveFairyPosted:

Epic Games is making so much from the store it's crazy lol

JasonPosted:

I must say Epic Games Store is really trying to move up.

AnimePosted:

Hopefully the filter will end up working.

naterocks500Posted:

Potion As much as people love to cry about the epic games store almost all of the games available on it are great games.


Correction: "High Quality Games" is ambiguous because what does it mean? AAA games only? What about indie games that aren't of the highest quality but is better than a asset flip, but doesn't meet their standards? That's where some people are concerned, as well as not allowing the other type of mature content, you know, p0rny stuff like VNs and other things outright just lowers interest and still sees Steam as the better platform.

Not really crying when everything I've seen are entirely valid concerns.

ZemaPosted:

Cant wait for this Epic games store to release

OGTrey079Posted:

Maze
OGTrey079 Kind of funny how one of the two rated M games they mentioned was GTA seeing how it jacked fortnite's spot on twitch


GTA is literally the biggest video game of all time, of course it's mentioned when listing high caliber rated m games


Yea but not so much far cry. They could of said other rated M games but didn't.

DeftonesPosted:

Sounds boring to me. Steam is always gonna have that edge.

MazePosted:

OGTrey079 Kind of funny how one of the two rated M games they mentioned was GTA seeing how it jacked fortnite's spot on twitch


GTA is literally the biggest video game of all time, of course it's mentioned when listing high caliber rated m games

XboxPosted:

Don't seem like the best move to me but aye what do I know.