I don't like Epic that much anymore (fuck your ugly women's day sky update, fuck your "Support Ukraine" banner and fuck your "non-binary" skin) but I never understood why every competitor to Steam was ripped apart.
The whole Epic vs Steam thing was part of what ran me away from normie gaming forums way back before I even paid attention to game politics. I mean I didn't care for the Epic business practices but you were not allowed to criticize Steam at all it seemed like. There were so many people around that just got back from a steamfag orgy with a fresh case of newellpox. Why do they like Steam so much? I don't even like it's user interface most of the time.
With epic, it’s Tim Sweeney moaning about it being a monopoly (it’s not, ea had origin, ubisoft with uplay, activision blizzard the blizzard launcher, gog, etc). Then moaning about the steam 30% cut, which had been the standard cut for most markets whether online or brick and mortar. Then epics policy of paying for exclusivity for their store. Actually strong arming people to their store and targeting devs who had previously announced a steam release. All for the experience of EGS to be sub standard to all competitors, it took them years for a shopping cart to be added, despite having one for their engine marketplace in the same launcher. Anti user reviews (ironically that would prevent this review bombing, but they were pro putting mainstream reviews). Scanning your steam friends list without your permission. All in all it all read as a mega corp moaning they weren’t getting the largest cut, forcing users to buy from them, and claiming they did this for the good of the consumer, all while having less features than steam including a ton I did not list as an example. The 40% Tencent ownership is just icing on the anti epic cake.
"But muh Epic is literally Tencent even though Valve is tied in just as deeply with Perfect World."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_World_(company)
I don't like Epic that much anymore (fuck your ugly women's day sky update, fuck your "Support Ukraine" banner and fuck your "non-binary" skin) but I never understood why every competitor to Steam was ripped apart.
The whole Epic vs Steam thing was part of what ran me away from normie gaming forums way back before I even paid attention to game politics. I mean I didn't care for the Epic business practices but you were not allowed to criticize Steam at all it seemed like. There were so many people around that just got back from a steamfag orgy with a fresh case of newellpox. Why do they like Steam so much? I don't even like it's user interface most of the time.
brand loyalty is retarded but there are a lot of retards out there
Gaben has killed his legitimate brand loyalty and is currently coasting by on retards and being a monopoly.
Mostly because other storefronts are embarrassingly terrible in terms of basic functionality, and there’s really no excuse for it.
With epic, it’s Tim Sweeney moaning about it being a monopoly (it’s not, ea had origin, ubisoft with uplay, activision blizzard the blizzard launcher, gog, etc). Then moaning about the steam 30% cut, which had been the standard cut for most markets whether online or brick and mortar. Then epics policy of paying for exclusivity for their store. Actually strong arming people to their store and targeting devs who had previously announced a steam release. All for the experience of EGS to be sub standard to all competitors, it took them years for a shopping cart to be added, despite having one for their engine marketplace in the same launcher. Anti user reviews (ironically that would prevent this review bombing, but they were pro putting mainstream reviews). Scanning your steam friends list without your permission. All in all it all read as a mega corp moaning they weren’t getting the largest cut, forcing users to buy from them, and claiming they did this for the good of the consumer, all while having less features than steam including a ton I did not list as an example. The 40% Tencent ownership is just icing on the anti epic cake.