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This is why I can't take anti EGS comments seriously. Steam effectively made games exclusive to their platform and has the devs themselves stuffing in spyware and who knows what else.
Forced exclusivity isn't functional exclusivity and the fact that you cannot understand the difference between the two shows how retarded the average EGS fanboy is.
That and apparently failing at properly Copy/Pasting.
The problem is first of all it doesn't matter and you don't know what deals were done behind the scenes anyway. If people want to whine about the Chinese involvement that's a different story but complaining they had to buy it at a different place comes across as petty.
If you think people are EGS fanboys for pointing this out then that's retarded.
It absolutely does, and saying it doesn't is why you are being called a fanboy retard. One demands you only cater to them, the other provides a service that is good enough that companies choose not to use anyone else. Its a very easy difference.
Except we know a lot of them because many devs had to explain why their games were suddenly not for sale on Steam after taking money for pre-orders there. Just because you didn't pay attention doesn't mean everyone else didn't.
DARQ was a famous example of a completely independent dev explaining in detail what they tried to pull on him.
Funny how this strawman only comes up for EGS, and never about GOG a completely different storefront that exists completely out of the Steam ecosystem and offers a competitive product without anti-consumer practices.
But since your defense is predicated on everyone being as ignorant as you are, I'd not be shocked if you didn't even know GOG was a thing.
It doesn't. In both cases these companies offered game devs an option and they took it whether it was good for customers or not.
Saying that makes you look silly considering the other comments in this thread.
Steam doesn't pay or in any way incentivize developers to be exclusive, or try to stop them from selling games on other platforms. It just provides an effective platform. Epic does pay developers for exclusivity.
Tencent bought psyonix, and then removed a game I already owned from steam to try to force me to install their vomitous client to play my game.
If they removed the game that's a consumer rights issue that depends on your country. Valve did that to get people onto Steam and it allows developers to screw around with your games at will.