• Davel23@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    every game on their [sic] I can find on Steam

    Oh yeah? Find these:

    3 out of 10

    A Knight’s Quest

    Alan Wake Remastered

    Alan Wake 2

    Assassin’s Creed Mirage

    Battle Breakers

    Binary Smoke

    Castle Storm 2

    Core

    Corruption 2029

    Crime Boss: Rockay City

    Dangerous Driving

    Dauntless

    Dead Island 2

    Diabotical

    Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed

    Goat Simulator 3

    Grit

    Infinitesimals

    John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando

    Kid A Mnesia Exhibition

    Kingdom Hearts series

    The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria

    Ooblets

    PC Building Simulator 2

    ReadySet Heroes

    Rocket League

    RollerCoaster Tycoon Adventures

    Salt and Sacrifice

    Saturnalia

    The Settlers: New Allies

    Shoulders of Giants

    Sins of a Solar Empire II

    Space Punks

    Star Trek: Resurgence

    Tchia

    The Crew Motorfest

    The Expanse: A Telltale Series

    Tortuga - A Pirate’s Tale

    Touch Type Tale

    Witchfire

    The Wolf Among Us 2

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      I don’t know about any of the others, but at least Rocket League and Fall Guys are great examples here.

      Both games already existed and were extremely successful on Steam.

      Both games got bought by Epic and we were told they were going to get continued support.

      Both games were then REMOVED from Steam.

      Both games then started suddenly having objectively worse monetization. Both communities grew a pretty negative opinion of the changes.

      Both games are objectively less popular now, though at least some of this is just age/fads.

      But both games are just objectively in a worse spot than they were before. All Epic did was make them objectively worse.

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      This list is just another argument against epic… artificial exclusives. For a FUCKING LAUNCHER. Even fucking Playstation, EA and Ubisoft opened up.

      Fuck Epic.

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        Fucking Playstation is not better than Epic with handling exclusives lmfao come on now

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          They are literally releasing their games on another platform that actually requires them to put money into the project again to develop a port. So yeah, even PS atm is better than Epic.

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            1 year ago

            So Playstation releasing some of their games literally years later as often sub-par ports is better than being able to play a game day 1 native on PC? I’d love to hear to the logic for that lol

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              It’s better than keeping them artificially locked behind a launcher for no reason whatsoever, yes.

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                  So just let me get that straight.

                  You also don’t like exclusives and want ppl to be able to play the way they want.

                  …and somehow Playstation - actively releasing their games on PC, investing time, money & effort - are worse than Epic who just want to lure ppl to their store/launcher and actively taking away the choice of playing method?

                  Alrighty then…

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                    Epic also releases their games on PC lol

                    And they release them day 1, without the multiple year wait from console release, and not as shitty ports. Fuck yes that’s better than PlayStation, it’s a no-brainer.

                    I’m truly baffled that anyone could have this take seriously. PC =/= Steam.

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      They bought fall guys and removed the possibility of buying it on steam. And timed exclusives like borderlands 3.

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      Okay, fair, there are some exclusives. But reading through these, wow, nothing of value is lost.

      Most importantly because for the newest ones like AW2, they’re just on a 1 year Early Access release in a lot of ways. Every time someone I know bought a game there, I was grateful they did the paid (as in, they pay, not get paid) bug testing work for the poor devs. And then once it releases on other stores, you can buy a somewhat patched-up version, and usually for 25%-50% off.