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brawleryukon@lemmy.world 8 months agoThey brought “exclusives” to PC gaming for the first time.
Please stop with this. Valve and GOG had both done third-party exclusives before EGS was even a thing. Epic absolutely in no way "brought [them] to PC gaming for the first time.
Yes, they did make them a pillar in their strategy to try to enter a marketplace that was dominated by an 800-pound gorilla - which is a perfectly legitimate approach to take - which neither of the other two did, but they 100% categorically did NOT bring the practice to PC first.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 8 months ago
brawleryukon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
forums.introversion.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=40203
What do I win?
rambaroo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
For real, Steam literally took off because they made HL2 exclusive to it. It doesn’t matter that it’s a first party game, the effect and intent was identical. They could’ve made it generally available but chose not to. They forced people to use their proprietary product to install a game.
It’s crazy how many people shill for valve on Reddit and lemmy when they’ve already done most of the shit Epic gets accused of.
Voyajer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Which games did valve pay to be exclusive to steam?
brawleryukon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Darwinia.
And before you even go there, yes, it was a long time ago, no, they haven’t really done it since then. But the discussion here is about whether or not Epic did it first, which they did not. By about a decade and a half.
Voyajer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Darwinia still sold copies through their site. Steam didn’t even support macos or linux back then yet the game did and that was how you got those versions. It wasn’t exclusive.
brawleryukon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Tell me you didn’t click the link without telling me you didn’t click the link.
Straight from the linked forum post:
So, yes, they were still selling boxed copies - because it was 2005 - but Valve made them stop selling digital copies from their own site and even made them take down their own demo.
Again, same quote as above:
Not sure how you’re getting “it wasn’t exclusive” from a post that explicitly says that they signed their game up for Steam exclusivity.
finishsneezing@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Since you are really nitpicky here: The people you replied to did say „exclusives“ and „games“, so…
brawleryukon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Careful you don’t throw your back out helping them move those goalposts!