• sagOP
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    • MudMan
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      92 days ago

      Hey, you do you. Just don’t try to sell me a moral high horse about exclusivity. I grew past console wars when the kids in the playground were excited about Terminator 2 coming out. If we’re going to bring the conversation back to that level I demand my knees stop hurting in the proces of de-evolution as well.

      • sagOP
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        152 days ago

        Any good thing about Epic Store other than Free games?

        Why would anyone want to buy it on Epic if it available on GOG, Steam or Itch? Personally, I will never because it didn’t even provide good regional prices.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 days ago

          One reason is that the Epic Games revenue split gives more to the developers. That being said though, they do enter exclusivity agreements with publishers all the time, which is anti-consumer.

          But MudMan’s comment was more about how the meme denounces store-exclusive games, yet games that are available only on Steam are also store-exclusive.

          GOG is a bit of an outlier. They allow developers to list their games DRM-free so their customers can truly own their games. If store exclusivity is the problem, GOG is the solution - not Steam.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 days ago

          I can use Heroic Games Launcher and don’t have to use bloated Steam. Steam used to be much lighter too…

        • @pyre
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          I buy from epic specifically because they have insanely good regional prices. like 1:10 ratio in some cases.

          also gog famously doesn’t have regional prices at all so you’re just talking out of your ass

          • sagOP
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            62 days ago

            Some game on Epic cost more for me than Steam(BTD6, Brotato and some other). If a game is available on Steam and Epic, I will buy it on Steam. If a game is available on Steam, GOG and Epic I will buy it on GOG. If it’s available on itch.io then itch.io.

            Here’s my priority

            Itch>GOG>Steam>Website(World of Goo 2)>Epic

            also gog famously doesn’t have regional prices at all so you’re just talking out of your ass

            I will pay extra to GOG to get DRM free games. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • MudMan
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          I don’t know, I don’t care. I don’t often buy things on Epic, myself. Seems to me that “free games” is a pretty big thing to dismiss out of hand, though. That seems like a good thing, free games.

          In any case the fact that Epic isn’t my store of choice for anything but exclusives and free games also means I don’t spend my time posting stuff about how much they suck. That seems like an undue amount of effort and attention for my what? Fourth, fifth favorite online games store on PC.

          There’s also nothing particularly bad about it. Bit of a simple, feature-light UX. Free games is nice. They are smart enough about allowing third party logins, so you can easily import your games automatically into other, better launchers like GOG Galaxy, Launchbox or Heroic. Seen worse.

          • @[email protected]
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            Says he doesn’t care, then goes on to engage in a conversation about it and writes an essay

            • MudMan
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              42 days ago

              Ah, the killer retort of the online argument. “If you don’t care about this thing I’m mad about for no reason, why are you explaining how I’m wrong about it?”

              See, the answer is “because you whining about it on the Internet bothers me more than the thing you’re mad about”, which doesn’t make anybody involved look good. I didn’t say I was a dignified commenter, I said the console wars nonsense is too undignified even for me.