I mean, to be clear, they don’t do this out of the kindness of their hearts. They used to have exclusives before they dominated the vast majority of the market. It just wouldn’t make sense for them to do now.
I mean, I’m pretty pro-steam myself but competition is always a good thing for consumers. There are plenty of features that Steam users have been asking for for years and maybe another competitor in the desktop marketplace can light a fire under them, so to speak.
That’s the whole problem, Epic hasn’t approached the situation with the intention of being good faith competition. They have instead attempted to exclude competition by paying for platform exclusivity. That’s anti-consumer. As a consumer that annoys me. GOG is competition for Steam, they offer a genuine value via DRM free versions of the same games ALSO available on Steam. That leaves the choice in the buyers hands as to which platform offers a better value. It’s a big difference in my opinion.
Steam’s maintenance downtime (as someone on US Eastern time) and just general glitchiness has been a bit irritating lately. I wouldn’t mind some competition but Epic isn’t a Linux friendly company so … I’m not exactly rooting for them.
However, I’d like them to poke Steam just enough that Valve reduces their downtime to almost zero.
So they’re adding features already available in Steam. I already have Steam.
Yeah but Steam doesn’t pay companies to exclude other platforms!
Oh wait, that’s a good thing.
I mean, to be clear, they don’t do this out of the kindness of their hearts. They used to have exclusives before they dominated the vast majority of the market. It just wouldn’t make sense for them to do now.
Well, here’s the thing: If they provide a good service, good prices, and they treat their customers well, I am totally OK with them making money.
Yes but also you have to understand Epic is not in the same situation as Valve.
You’re right, one runs a shitty store and the other runs a good one.
Because one has that luxury
That’s a ridiculous take: Steam is good because they made it good. Epic is shit because they made it shit.
It’s not a luxury, it’s a choice.
Epic could have chosen to be more like Steam or even GOG, but instead they chose to be Epic.
That’s a ridiculous take. Steam doesn’t have to do the dumb shit Epic does to be competitive because they already dominate the industry.
That is Epic’s fault my guy, troll harder.
Do you have anything constructive you’d like to add to the discussion or did you just come here to lob personal insults and troll?
Bye Felicia!
Who did they pay to make their games exclusive to Steam?
The same people Epic pays.
It should be easy to provide examples of exclusivity deals they signed then.
I mean, I’m pretty pro-steam myself but competition is always a good thing for consumers. There are plenty of features that Steam users have been asking for for years and maybe another competitor in the desktop marketplace can light a fire under them, so to speak.
That’s the whole problem, Epic hasn’t approached the situation with the intention of being good faith competition. They have instead attempted to exclude competition by paying for platform exclusivity. That’s anti-consumer. As a consumer that annoys me. GOG is competition for Steam, they offer a genuine value via DRM free versions of the same games ALSO available on Steam. That leaves the choice in the buyers hands as to which platform offers a better value. It’s a big difference in my opinion.
Steam’s maintenance downtime (as someone on US Eastern time) and just general glitchiness has been a bit irritating lately. I wouldn’t mind some competition but Epic isn’t a Linux friendly company so … I’m not exactly rooting for them.
However, I’d like them to poke Steam just enough that Valve reduces their downtime to almost zero.