Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store
Cris16228@lemmy.today 2 weeks agoSteam because of its exclusives.
Exclusives? Never heard of them paying devs to release only on steam, epic did that and still does that (?? I think). Steam offers a better store and features to devs so they release the games there.
You know steam offers you to generate infinite (?) Steam keys to sell them on your website or anywhere else and valve gets 0% from it? It’s plenty of bad practices and devs accepting money just before the steam release (Metro exodus, I’m talking about you)
indog@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
If it’s only on Steam and no other PC platform, it’s exclusive. I don’t see the relevance from a consumer’s point of view whether money changed hands for that exclusivity. You could even argue that no money changes hands, Epic just doesn’t take its cut from the game’s sales is how I believe that works.
If Steam has the better store, then it should have no need to require publishers to match their prices. Of course if you’re buying a game on a fully featured, 30% cut store, it should cost more than on a less fully featured 12% cut store. Steam is using their large market share to bully publishers into not passing on savings to consumers from lower cut stores.
Steam keys can be generated, but the product can’t be discounted, ie again the 0% cut savings cannot be passed on to consumers. So all this does is create an extra inconvenience for the consumer to sign up to some publisher’s storefront to get the same product at the same price.
Cris16228@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Whatever dude. The difference is Epic paid for the exclusive, Steam just offers a better store and people release it there because they want it
Cya
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The difference is the developer deciding they don’t want to bother going through the effort of making their game available on every platform on the Internet, vs. a dev saying “we are going to release a game on this platform”, even doing presales, and then saying “oh, some guy just gave us a bunch of money to not sell you the thing we promised.”
Ya, that’s great for the devs being given a bunch of money, but that’s shitty for me so I’m not going to give money to the rich asshole doing this so that he can keep doing it
indog@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
If you don’t like giving money to rich assholes, I have some bad news for you about Valve.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
That rich asshole doesn’t try to actively interfere with things in my life.