You know, I never understood the "Valve has had 20 years to refine their store" argument. Yeah, and Epic could have easily copied it. There's no reason Epic couldn't have made a cart, like every other online store, or forums or everything else Steam has. GoG did it, and they're focused on old shit.
It's not like Epic made a forum, and it kinda sucked so they need to work on the layout, they just chose not to make a forum.
Thankfully for third party games this only means like 6 months stuck in EGS purgatory before you can buy it on other digital storefronts, but holy shit.
Comments like these always make me chuckle.
Steam has literally monopolized most games not just 6 months but forever where it isn't that big a deal to use epic if you really wanted them anyway.
If Fortnite was mildly successful as Save The World, and BR (the genre) flopped, maybe Tencent would have pulled put. Ultimately, I blame the consumer for buying trash, and the voter for complacency in artificially incentivizing these business models more than necessary, before I blame the corporation for chasing profits.
I never minded Epic trying to take a piece of the pie from Steam. They put out money to compete. Why am I to blame developers for taking good financial deals. I mean guaranteed money can be a big thing. You've just taken a huge amount of risk out of your game release taking a big guaranteed check. Actually the part I never really understood is the size of the massive boner that so many have for Steam. It gets defended like a father should defend their children, and I think that's sick.
I wish Epic had done a bit of a better job on their software myself and actually made Steam take a hit and have to try. I still put it at #3 after Steam and GoG. They did a hell of a lot better job than garbage like Battle.net or all the bullshit the EAs and Ubisofts do. No, I don't want your shitty additional launcher for the one awful game of yours I'd play, and if you want me to buy a game from your direct store, I'd probably actually be interested if you'd offer a DRM free download that did not require me to use yet another launcher.
You know, I never understood the "Valve has had 20 years to refine their store" argument. Yeah, and Epic could have easily copied it. There's no reason Epic couldn't have made a cart, like every other online store, or forums or everything else Steam has. GoG did it, and they're focused on old shit.
It's not like Epic made a forum, and it kinda sucked so they need to work on the layout, they just chose not to make a forum.
Comments like these always make me chuckle. Steam has literally monopolized most games not just 6 months but forever where it isn't that big a deal to use epic if you really wanted them anyway.
I first saw DeepSilver in the names of some files of games. Wtf is that? It was an Epic exclusive game.
Their model was never sustainable, and I'm genuinely shocked it lasted as long as it did.
Hopefully now the EGS can stop breaking the industry apart over nonsense so we can fight about real shit.
Like if dex builds or ranged builds are the bigger fags.
Imp in shambles.
Don't worry, he'll find a way to spin this into sucking off Microsoft somehow.
If Fortnite was mildly successful as Save The World, and BR (the genre) flopped, maybe Tencent would have pulled put. Ultimately, I blame the consumer for buying trash, and the voter for complacency in artificially incentivizing these business models more than necessary, before I blame the corporation for chasing profits.
Awesome. Hopefully it signals a fatal downtrend.
I never minded Epic trying to take a piece of the pie from Steam. They put out money to compete. Why am I to blame developers for taking good financial deals. I mean guaranteed money can be a big thing. You've just taken a huge amount of risk out of your game release taking a big guaranteed check. Actually the part I never really understood is the size of the massive boner that so many have for Steam. It gets defended like a father should defend their children, and I think that's sick.
I wish Epic had done a bit of a better job on their software myself and actually made Steam take a hit and have to try. I still put it at #3 after Steam and GoG. They did a hell of a lot better job than garbage like Battle.net or all the bullshit the EAs and Ubisofts do. No, I don't want your shitty additional launcher for the one awful game of yours I'd play, and if you want me to buy a game from your direct store, I'd probably actually be interested if you'd offer a DRM free download that did not require me to use yet another launcher.
Do a little dance.