Bruh I don't think they're concerned about Epic, Valve has over 75% of the market share for PC games last I checked, and pretty much all PC games released in the west have to release on Steam if they want to make money (unless Epic literally bribes them away with mountains of cash, Epic literally have to do so to compensate the devs for the loss of sales)
Valve could do whatever they want and still be fine, this is more likely just the woke part of the company deciding to help fuck over the users and spite people who like fanservice. (Since I don't see much value in doing this kind of intervention for an indie developer otherwise, as opposed doing this for a large company's offerings)
You'd think other developers, indie or AAA, would seriously care because all games on the market are in a competition and it means their own games are being unfairly negatively biased in comparison. "I want all the bad reviews on my game from the last year stricken from the record too, Gabe."
In fact let's just remove all negative reviews to be fair. 👍
Now you guys finally understand why I've been ranting so heavily about steam since I first showed up here. I know what it's like to use that fucking platform from the dev perspective.
Valve are a business, they're all about sales in the end, the biggest piss take about all of this is you do actually have indie devs who get unfairly review bombed or their negative reviews are ancient with the customers never changing them after they fix problems. Yet these cunts can go and whine to Valve and have honest reviews taken down.
You see it with Battlebit, where you get obvious low skilled players whining about hackers because they thought they were amazing at FPS' but now they're finally having to play a game without an accessibility crutch they realise they suck and they don't like it so they leave a negative review and try to fuck the Battlebit devs over. The exploiting of the review system goes so much deeper than this.
Also, did you know? Reviewers can delete comments from the devs themselves. So even if you try to defend yourself and point out you've fixed everything, they can still leave you a negative review, delete your comment or prevent you from responding and it will affect your reputation because of some turd who wanted to start something with you over fuck all. Assuming of course people are paying attention to that review.
I'm pretty sure some of those Epic exclusives bent the knee and went to Steam recently. I can't remember which games it was, but I remember seeing people trashing them in reviews for starting as Epic-exclusive.
The evidence is right here. We have a sticky in this very community chatting about what people want to buy from Valve's store, despite at least 5+ years of history banning games, strong-arming developers into self-censoring, and spiteful retaliation against users that don't have mandatory-fun-smile positivity.
(unless Epic literally bribes them away with mountains of cash, Epic literally have to do so to compensate the devs for the loss of sales)
Epic usually gets a year of exclusivity for paying the first year's projected sales figures. That's just what I've heard, but I can't remember the last time I saw a game take that deal that wasn't either garbage by a big publisher that knew it was a loss or an indy with zero confidence.
Epic's store is a joke, ma'am. Why do you think the only games to take Epic's exclusivity deal are either garbage that never would've sold on its own or indie games?
There are a few possible exceptions to that like Phoenix Point but Julian firmly shot his reputation to pieces by taking Epic's money, even though he also gave any refund asked for afterwards because he no longer needed any of the backers' cash.
The X-Com crowd was loyal enough to him up until that point they would have carried his pet project through fire but after burning them the wrong way it failed to rise even once, let alone subsequent times as per the game title might suggest.
Valve is always going to side with developers.
Otherwise they'll go to Epic.
Simple business logic.
Bruh I don't think they're concerned about Epic, Valve has over 75% of the market share for PC games last I checked, and pretty much all PC games released in the west have to release on Steam if they want to make money (unless Epic literally bribes them away with mountains of cash, Epic literally have to do so to compensate the devs for the loss of sales)
Valve could do whatever they want and still be fine, this is more likely just the woke part of the company deciding to help fuck over the users and spite people who like fanservice. (Since I don't see much value in doing this kind of intervention for an indie developer otherwise, as opposed doing this for a large company's offerings)
You'd think other developers, indie or AAA, would seriously care because all games on the market are in a competition and it means their own games are being unfairly negatively biased in comparison. "I want all the bad reviews on my game from the last year stricken from the record too, Gabe."
In fact let's just remove all negative reviews to be fair. 👍
Now you guys finally understand why I've been ranting so heavily about steam since I first showed up here. I know what it's like to use that fucking platform from the dev perspective.
Valve are a business, they're all about sales in the end, the biggest piss take about all of this is you do actually have indie devs who get unfairly review bombed or their negative reviews are ancient with the customers never changing them after they fix problems. Yet these cunts can go and whine to Valve and have honest reviews taken down.
You see it with Battlebit, where you get obvious low skilled players whining about hackers because they thought they were amazing at FPS' but now they're finally having to play a game without an accessibility crutch they realise they suck and they don't like it so they leave a negative review and try to fuck the Battlebit devs over. The exploiting of the review system goes so much deeper than this.
Also, did you know? Reviewers can delete comments from the devs themselves. So even if you try to defend yourself and point out you've fixed everything, they can still leave you a negative review, delete your comment or prevent you from responding and it will affect your reputation because of some turd who wanted to start something with you over fuck all. Assuming of course people are paying attention to that review.
Steam is shit.
I'm pretty sure some of those Epic exclusives bent the knee and went to Steam recently. I can't remember which games it was, but I remember seeing people trashing them in reviews for starting as Epic-exclusive.
The evidence is right here. We have a sticky in this very community chatting about what people want to buy from Valve's store, despite at least 5+ years of history banning games, strong-arming developers into self-censoring, and spiteful retaliation against users that don't have mandatory-fun-smile positivity.
Epic usually gets a year of exclusivity for paying the first year's projected sales figures. That's just what I've heard, but I can't remember the last time I saw a game take that deal that wasn't either garbage by a big publisher that knew it was a loss or an indy with zero confidence.
>always
>an absolute statement
Domina proves you wrong.
Epic's store is a joke, ma'am. Why do you think the only games to take Epic's exclusivity deal are either garbage that never would've sold on its own or indie games?
There are a few possible exceptions to that like Phoenix Point but Julian firmly shot his reputation to pieces by taking Epic's money, even though he also gave any refund asked for afterwards because he no longer needed any of the backers' cash.
The X-Com crowd was loyal enough to him up until that point they would have carried his pet project through fire but after burning them the wrong way it failed to rise even once, let alone subsequent times as per the game title might suggest.