Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families
mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 8 months agoEpic gives me free games and I still don’t like them… The “problem” is Valve is Steam-rolling the competition because people want to give them money.
Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families
mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 8 months agoEpic gives me free games and I still don’t like them… The “problem” is Valve is Steam-rolling the competition because people want to give them money.
Spedwell@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yep. Because honestly, Steam is better than Epic in almost every way. When you want to buy a particular game X, you get a lot more from your purchase if it’s on Steam (workshop, friends, multiplayer, etc.). There is strong inertia and network effects that keep us all preferring Steam.
Epic can’t compete with the Steam experience. But if Epic was able to list everything 18% cheaper (the difference in fees between Epic and Steam)—then they would rightly be able to compete on price.
mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I understand now and that does make sense. No point in undercutting your competition if you can’t pass those savings to the customers.