Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store

• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When Half Life 2 launched, you had to register your game with Steam before you could play it. You had to give up your physical ownership of the product, and lock it to yourself. You couldn’t sell it to anyone else, or even let them play it.

  That’s what you were encouraging by buying from that shitfest of a platform.

  I really don’t see how bunging devs money for publishing rights is worse. The devs clearly don’t see it that way.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You couldn’t sell it to anyone else, or even let them play it.

    Epic lets you sell your games to someone else?

    As to your 2nd point I play my friend’s games all the time. I haven’t purchased Satisfactory but have almost 100% it on Steam playing my friend’s copy.

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      1. No. You can with physical. Well, before that just meant a steam key with a disc.

      2. That come much later. Try to keep up.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So we’re talking about everything except this moment in time?

        1. Epic doesn’t have disks either so it’s irrelevant to the discussion of Epic games. If you want to complain about eliminating physical media try talking about it in regards to someplace that actually sells physical media.

        If Steam is bad because no physical media then so is Epic.

        2. But I guess Epic is okay because of how things are right now right? but I shouldn’t bring up how things are on Steam right now? In direct comparison?

        Pick an era in time you would like to complain about, and if it’s the early 2000s then go bitch to people in the early 2000s. I’m sure many of them are complaining about the loss of physical media. People still used Steam anyway and now it’s the norm. Now people are complaining about exclusivity deals, if people still use Epic anyway then that will become the norm.

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• Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  they pay devs millions

  I mean I see this as a good thing. I have to keep a separate launcher around but… at least that dev is getting a great deal and will probably be able to support that game for a while (or start their next one)

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  • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You don’t even need to do that. Use Heroic and you can combine Epic, GOG, and Amazon into one launcher.

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  • Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah and get in return like 10 players? Only who has no faith in their game sells it to the demon

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There are apparently 270 million Epic Store accounts made.

      Now most of them don’t buy anything and are probably installed on a whim for one free game ad now they’ve forgot their password, while a good chunk of them are probably 12 year olds playing Fortnite who don’t even look at it and hurl all their pocket money into V-bucks so the rest of us get free games, but it’s not an insignificant amount.

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      • Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You know it also counts ghost accounts made while linking your steam to epic or when you use a game with EOS and it creates a dummy account yee?

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• _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’re paying indie devs millions to remain exclusive for a year. What’s scummy is the Steam fanboys who see that and think it’s better for gamers if those games just aren’t financially successful.

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