Just a guess, but 3rd party sales being down is probably from spending less money on 3rd party exclusives. It seems epic giving up on this strategy finally? They don't even mention it in the above link.
Im not sure epic and MS would see eye to eye on the % cut from every sale, unless MS is willing only take like 10% or less otherwise epic probably wouldn't have it.
are they much lower though? of the ones in the OP, most aren't even on epic and the ones that are, the only one i see cheaper is back 4 blood and that's only by 1$. Randomly checking other games they are mostly all the same price. maybe im missing something or i guess if you factor in the...
Its good game and i ended up enjoying it. it started off kinda slow but at one point just started to click for me, ended up with about 50 hours in this one.
I typically dont use mods so i can't suggest any, probably best bet would be to check nexus mods or google top 10 mods for Starfield. unfortunately you probably wont get much help here.
It currently has more concurrent players than fortnite, assuming fortnite.gg is accurate.
And that's just on steam, not counting gamepass players.
Not cup of tea but this is crazy.
i could be remembering wrong, but it seemed like the online check was more about drm, kinect and blocking used games, meaning no reselling even for physical disks?