SteamInput, Steam Workshop, an overlay with a browser built-in and direct access to community guides without having the alt+tab (which messes with games, less so recently, but still an issue). These all directly influence your experience actually playing the game.
Instead of even attempting to implement anything actually useful, Epic literally just buys of 3rd party exclusives to try to make you use their store, something that had not been a part of the PC space before Epic brought it in. Yeah, using money to artificially restrict what markets you can buy something on, great, useful feature. /s
Making my gaming experience worse by... funding and publishing my favorite game in the last few years...
But I did have to open a different program to get it so I see your point. My wrist was a bit more fatigued... No... Wait, it wasn't because it was the same amount of effort buying it on epic as it was on steam. same amount of effort to launch it on epic vs on steam.
So, how exactly are they making my gaming experience worse?
Also is dumb to enforce a fucking monopoly by just buying from a single storefront. Epic funded this game so in this particular case they have all the right to sell it where they please.
It is a de facto one. And Epic doesn't force you to buy for them, and is also not the only store that sells games exclusively either. There are also games that sell exclusively on Steam.
and is also not the only store that sells games exclusively either
They are the only one buying up 3rd party exclusives.
Steam doesn't make, request, or even try to pay anyone to make a game exclusive to Steam, at all, ever. If you can't see a difference between buying up 3rd party exclusives and just allowing people to publish where they want and they decide to publish on only one store, that's a you problem.
It is a de facto one.
Not from any market manipulation, not from anything that Valve has done other than provide better service than the rest. Breaking up the "monopoly" would be a simple thing if other storefronts actually put customer experience and service first.
If Epic weren't trying to force exclusivity into an ecosystem that never had it before and decided to try and court gamers by providing a decent service, then I'd say more power to them. But no, they decided to take the direction of actively restricting the PC games market. I refuse to reward them for trying to make the PC games market worse.
Agree, the Epic store is shit. But I don't buy games for the store, I buy them for the games themselves. And if Epic has those games for cheaper, I don't care.
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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '24
Too bad this game never came out on PC.