Dear PC gamers, please stop bitching about installing a second games launcher. If you wanted all games to only come out on a single launcher then you should have bought a console. Us console players are getting real sick of the endless bitching about Epic just because they tried to break Steam's monopoly.

Noone is a fan of exclusives but Epic's behaviour was explicitly to try and break Steam's entrenched monopoly and they legitimately offer far more favourable terms for developers. They've also spent hundreds of millions of dollars to break other monopolies like Apple and Google's. They are by no means the evil villains that PC Gamers make them out to be. The tactics they took with EGS were misguided but they've genuinely fought to level the playing field at the legislative level, they're a full tier better than an EA or Ubisoft who only ever try and squeeze as much profit as possible at every turn.

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I can agree that challenging Steam is probably a good thing, but right now Steam just gives so much more value to Devs and publishers. Steam provides:

a review system
remote play
the workshop
discussion threads
cards and the points store

and that's just what I can think of, not including the player specific stuff like library sharing.

Devs and publishers pay more, but get a community and ecosystem in return instead of just a platform.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Reviews > Also available from websites that don't have a financial incentive to show good reviews

Remote play > Good example

Workshop > Also available elsewhere

Forums > Also available elsewhere on platforms that don't have a financial incentive to censor criticism

Cards and points stores > Bloat

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah but no one do all of that with the same tool, in the same place for every game.

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