History Trivia / PhoenixPoint

* NoExportForYou: As a direct result of the game becoming a one-year timed exclusive on the UsefulNotes/EpicGamesStore, which was announced mid-March 2019, the game will become inaccessible to Chinese fans that contributed to the crowdfunding campaign, as the Epic Games Store is not available in China.

* TaintedByThePreview: Many fans felt this way after the EGS exclusivity announcement. Throughout the game's Kickstarter campaign, it was announced as multi-PC platform, with Steam and GOG (the latter of which is completely DRM free), only for Julian Gollup to personally announce the year long timed exclusivity. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmjFZMEoEZ0 The Youtube video making the annoucement]] faced so much backlash, that comments and likes were disabled, and even the entire video was made unlisted to avoid showing up in search results. Between the announcement, and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixPoint/comments/b0ix7q/its_about_money_according_to_the_official/ a community manager for Snapshot Games announcing that Epic's cash infusion would allow 100% backer refunds]] with the game remaining in the black. This only added to the ill-will the project had already gotten.
** In an attempt to make up for the Epic Games Store temporal exclusivity the incident, the developers announced that those who activated the game in Epic's store would get all the DLC at no additional cost. But ''[[ExactWords only]]'' [[EpicFail on the Epic Game Store]].
** [[AuthorsSavingThrow This was later resolved]], as backers were able to unlock the "Year One Edition" on the platform of their choice, which includes all previously-released and future DLC for that platform.

* TheWikiRule:
** [[https://phoenixpoint.wiki.fextralife.com/Phoenix+Point+Wiki Phoenix Point Wiki]],
** [[https://phoenixpoint.fandom.com/wiki/Phoenix_Point_Wiki Phoenix Point Wiki | Fandom]](in which the Gamepedia version combined forces with.)
** [[http://wiki.phoenixpoint.com/Phoenix_Point_Wiki wiki.phoenixpoint.com]]

** Many fans felt this way after the EGS exclusivity announcement. Throughout the game's Kickstarter campaign, it was announced as multi-PC platform, with Steam and GOG (the latter of which is completely DRM free), only for Julian Gollup to personally announce the year long timed exclusivity. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmjFZMEoEZ0 The Youtube video making the annoucement]] faced so much backlash, that comments and likes were disabled, and even the entire video was made unlisted to avoid showing up in search results. Between the announcement, and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixPoint/comments/b0ix7q/its_about_money_according_to_the_official/ a community manager for Snapshot Games announcing that Epic's cash infusion would allow 100% backer refunds]] with the game remaining in the black. This only added to the ill-will the project had already gotten.
*** In an attempt to make up for the Epic Games Store temporal exclusivity the incident, the developers announced that those who activated the game in Epic's store would get all the DLC at no additional cost. But ''[[ExactWords only]]'' [[EpicFail on the Epic Game Store]].
*** [[AuthorsSavingThrow This was later resolved]], as backers were able to unlock the "Year One Edition" on the platform of their choice, which includes all previously-released and future DLC for that platform.

* NoExportForYou: As a direct result of the game becoming a one-year timed exclusive on the Epic Games Store, which was announced mid-March 2019, the game will become inaccessible to Chinese fans that contributed to the crowdfunding campaign, as the Epic Games Store is not available in China.

** [[https://phoenixpoint.fandom.com/wiki/Phoenix_Point_Wiki Phoenix Point Wiki | Fandom]](in which the Gamepedia version combined forces with.)

*** This later proved false, as backers were able to unlock the "Year One Edition" on the platform of their choice, which includes all previously-released and future DLC for that platform.

* TheWikiRule: [[https://phoenixpoint.wiki.fextralife.com/Phoenix+Point+Wiki Phoenix Point Wiki]], [[https://phoenixpoint.fandom.com/wiki/Phoenix_Point_Wiki Phoenix Point Wiki | Fandom]](in which the Gamepedia version combined forces with.)

** Many fans felt this way after the EGS exclusivity announcement. Throughout the game's Kickstarter campaign, it was announced as multi-PC platform, with Steam and GOG (the latter of which is completely DRM free), only for Julian Gollup to personally announce the year long timed exclusivity. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmjFZMEoEZ0 The Youtube video making the annoucement]] faced so much backlash, that comments and likes were disabled, and even the entire video was made unlisted to avoid showing up in search results. Between the announcement, and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixPoint/comments/b0ix7q/its_about_money_according_to_the_official/ a community manager for Snapshot Games annoucing that Epic's cash infusion would allow 100% backer refunds]] with the game remaining in the black. This only added to the ill-will the project had already gotten.

* TheWikiRule: [[https://phoenixpoint.wiki.fextralife.com/Phoenix+Point+Wiki Phoenix Point Wiki]], [[https://phoenixpoint.fandom.com/wiki/Phoenix_Point_Wiki Phoenix Point Wiki | Fandom]](in which the Gamepedia version compbied forces with.)

*** In an attempt to make up for the Epic Games Store temporal exclusivity the incident, the developers announced that those who activated the game in Epic's store would get all the DLC at no additional cost. But ''[[ExactWords only]]'' [[EpicFail on the Epic Game Store]].

* NoExportForYou: As a direct result of the game becoming a one-year timed exclusive on the Epic Games Store, which was announced mid-March 2019, the game will become inaccessible to Chinese fans that contributed to the crowdfunding campaign, as the Epic Games Store is not available in China.

* BrokenBase: In March of 2019 it was announced that the PC release of the Phoenix Point would be a timed exclusive to the Epic Games Store for one year after the kickstarter promises Steam and GOG release. Similar to the backdraft against ''VideoGame/MetroExodus'', people were very vocal about their disdain for the Epic Games Launcher (which was, at the time, already in a scandal for allegedly spying on users, then criticized for an awful barebones launcher with a terrible feature roadmap, such as having no shopping cart until a year after EGS launch) and canceled their pre-orders en masse. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmjFZMEoEZ0 The Youtube video making the annoucement]] faced so much backlash, that comments and likes were disabled, and even the entire video was made unlisted to avoid showing up in search results.
** Matters were made worse when [[https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixPoint/comments/b0ix7q/its_about_money_according_to_the_official/ a community manager for Snapshot Games responded on Discord]] that the project would still be in the black even if the percentage of refunds was 100% complete. This only added to the ill-will the project had already gotten.
*** In an attempt to make up for the Epic Games Store temporal exclusivity the incident, the developers announced that those who activated the game in Epic's store would get all the DLC at no additional cost. But ''[[ExactWords only]]'' [[EpicFail on the Epic Game Store]].