Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
Imagine if Steam and EGS were hotdog vendors.
Steam offers all the condiments; mustard, ketchup, mayo, relish, onions, pickles, tomatoes, bacon, cheese, chili, etc.
EGS is just a plain hotdog. No condiments. You’re lucky to even get a bun.
Both are equal price.
Which hotdog are you getting?
Now imagine that the plain hotdog guy keeps whining that nobody wants his hotdogs.
That, and Gabe’s hotdog stand has spent decades building customer trust by generally acting decently towards its customers, right after it invented the concept of the hotdog stand.
Making the core of your business model revolve around whining about your competitors doesn’t work so great when your main competitor is already significantly better than you are.
Not to mention the gabe stand made the hot dogs at all accessible for some nerds. Hotdogs were really hard to eat for the penguins.
Epic games store occasionally gives you a free hotdog every week. But it also contains no fixings, and you gotta eat it at the counter.
I eat that free hotdog every week, then go across the street and buy another one.
I eat that free hotdog every week, then go across the street and buy another one.
You actually eat it? I put it in the fridge for bad times but only eat the ones from the other side.
To be fair, I also put most of the hot dogs I buy across the street in the fridge too.
I have a 100 plus free hotdogs
Sometimes the epic hot dog isn’t fully cooked, or has everything on it because they grabbed it out of steams hands then gave it to their customer
I think I lost this analogy. What are the condiments in this metaphor?
I don’t know so much about EGS, but probably some of the following (most of which I don’t use very often, I hope I recall correctly)
Free cloud backups of save files is really nice.
Free hosting of screenshots, too.
Free forums (though they tend to suck. I guess that’s like they only have basic yellow mustard or something, in this metaphor)
Corvid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The hotdog vendor keeps going on about how he’s the good guy because he pays more to the sausage suppliers. As if that’s at all relevant to his customers.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
He also tried suing the fruit vendor because they wouldn’t let them sell their hotdogs on their Apple cart.
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m having a really hard time keeping up with the analogies at this point, haha
Contingencyfork@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m just waiting for the fast food to join at this point because I’m Loving it
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
To be fair, with regular groceries, it’s not uncommon for consumers to be concerned about whether or not the person who manufactured or processed the good or food you are buying was paid a fair wage. So in that sense, it is kind of relevant to the hotdog vendors customers.
I’m only playing devils advocate though. Fuck epic lol