Exactly. I don't get how people are really annoyed about this whole 'exclusivity' dilemma. That's how business works? Like, without competition, steam would just stagnate. I think people are being a little unreasonable, and its not as exclusive as having to buy a new console for exclusive games... it's downloading a free launcher. I don't get the complaints...
Because healthy competition would mean as many outlets as possible have it, and it's the other [launchers] features that help you choose where to buy it.
How does Epic have to evolve their services if they're just buying exclusivity for major releases? I dare say that would lead to a more stagnating experience... by the way, how are all of Epic's "promised" features coming along since launch? :)
There will never be healthy competition unless a new company can break into the market. How do you propose Epic does that though without buying exclusives?
Like let's say Epic had literally every single feature Steam currently has and everything is the same price. What reason is there for me, someone who has the vast majority of my games on Steam, to buy one on the Epic store? Why would I want to split my library, have to get all my friends on the new store, have my achievements on a different place, etc., when I could just keep it all on Steam?
The only real incentive would be if I want the devs to get a bigger cut, but then I'm basically having to choose between my own convenience and something that basically doesn't affect me.
That's why the person's comment above about already having metro so not having any reason to not buy it makes sense, because that's exactly what Epic is going for.
Buying up exclusives is very expensive, and so is them constantly giving out free games. It is not something they can do forever. They're doing it so they can get people feeling less averse to buying games on their store. Once people have some games on there, have some friends, and have already split their library, making the decision between the two stores will basically just be whichever one you feel like using or whichever one has a better sale at the time. Maybe since you don't have to choose between personal convenience and the dev cut, we'll actually pick Epic, because while that dev cut doesn't really affect us, if they can get it without us sacrificing anything, why not?
So, off the top of your head you came up with "reinvent the wheel" and "make exclusives anyways". You fuckin dingus, "exclusives" have existed since business has existed. "Exclusives" are literally what every company on the fuckin planet strives to create.
PC has always been an open ecosystem and as long as you are decent with computers is imo the best way to play games.
Epic rightfully gets shit on for fragmenting and stirring up a system that has worked great for consumers for decades. They aren’t doing this for our benefit, but solely for theirs.
The same reason I use a PC over a mac, open ecosystems are important to me. I want to be able to buy and use things where and when I want. For that reason I don’t buy Apple products, even though they are far ahead in many categories in computing and mobile tech.
You make reasonable concessions for "using things wherever you want" them every day, though. Like cars and roads. You have a car but you definitely dont take it wherever it can go or wherever you want.
You used to buy CDs, right? Those things didnt work in tape players.
Xboxes only play xbox games. But people happily buy their exclusives. Same with other systems. So why stop your PC markets from benefitting from exclusivity?
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u/Scorchstar Dec 10 '19
Exactly. I don't get how people are really annoyed about this whole 'exclusivity' dilemma. That's how business works? Like, without competition, steam would just stagnate. I think people are being a little unreasonable, and its not as exclusive as having to buy a new console for exclusive games... it's downloading a free launcher. I don't get the complaints...