Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2

• Tamo240@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Quick google says epic has 13000+ employee while Valve has only 300+, and yet they can’t build a legitimate competitor and have to resort to exclusivity deal to force people onto their platform which is totally anti consumer.

  Also for the record console players whine endlessly about Xbox/PS exclusive games, so don’t act like this is some weird thing that PC gamers do.

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  • WldFyre@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Why do you bring up console players? What does that have to do with Steam?

    Also, what’s the cutoff for the number of employees a company can have before it’s weird to stan for them? Because I’ve never liked Steam, and Valve was one of the first companies to promote lootboxes and literal gambling to children, but Epic is the devil for some reason?? Lol gtfo

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    • Tamo240@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      The point is that Epic complaining about being unable to compete with Steam, and therefore needing to employee anti-competitive, anti-consumer practices rings a little hollow given that they have significantly more resources available.

      I’m not here to stan for either company, I think if Epic wants to compete they need to create a better product, not fling monopoly accusation while actively pursuing monopolistic strategies.

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