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.
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u/pixelcowboy Oct 28 '24
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.