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

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• Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I created an epic account solely for the free games, which I claim and never play. Fuck Epic. I still haven’t forgiven them for ruining Rocket League.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Downloading the games does not cost Epic anything. They paid a flat rate to make it free to download, regardless of how many people actually download it.

    You signing into the store and claiming the free games provides user metrics that Epic can use to entice investors.

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• Scolding7300@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Excuse my ignorance. What did Epic do?

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  • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Exclusivity deals with companies.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, they expressed that they wanted to join the online game store scene and the big feature they were offering to draw in users was… anticompetitive exclusivity deals!

      Plus the company killed off the unreal tournament franchise because they didn’t want it to compete with fortnite.

      I have no interest in supporting a company that thinks removing options is the best way to get users to use their products.

      It’s the same shit that has turned streaming services from great back when it was new to now having content spread across many competing services. I’d rather they competed based on their own platform’s features and advantages than the whole “if you want to watch x, you must use service y”. It’s just a series of mini monopolies.

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      • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Imagine if they succeed with the exclusivity tactics, how other companies will respond to that? Doing the exactly same thing.

        Let some years of exclusivity wars and the PC gaming will look like the streaming, a bunch of storefronts offering the same poor service and the clients doesn’t know where to buy what they want because at any moment another exclusivity deal could be made and the entire library moved to another storefront, just like streaming.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Copying my reply to someone else:

    Epic is anti-customer: medium.com/…/why-i-turned-down-exclusivity-deal-f…

    Tldr: Kickstarter Game with a lot of interest while in development announces a release date on Steam. After the date announcement they get contacted by Epic saying “we’d love to host your game” for an exclusivity deal.
    Dev responds that they would be happy to have their game on Epic but promises were made during crowd funding that it would be available on Steam.
    Epic replies that they aren’t interested if it’s not exclusive.

    This tells me that

    1. Epic is full of shit. "We’d love to have your game, but only if it’s exclusive.
    2. Epic doesn’t care about being a better service for its customers. Having the game available on Epic as well is strictly better for Epic’s customers and they easily could have done that. They chose not to.
    3. Epic is not interested in actually having to compete with other companies. This would require them to provide a better service in some fashion. They are only interested if they can force people “if you want to purchase this game you have to buy it through us” which is anti-consumer.

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  • AustralianSimon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Basically watch games being promoted on steam pre-release and when games get popular, reach out to them and offer them money to be exclusive on EGS for a period of time despite all the publicity the game got being on Steam.

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• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But One Must Fall 2097 was pretty sweet

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