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Nothing more disappointing to me than seeing a game I might enjoy... and then it's only available on PC on Epic Games store. Why can't it be available on Epic, Xbox game store and Steam? It's so annoying, like you have no choice but to use Epic... which I would literally do ANYTHING not to use.
Know what happens when I find out a game is Epic exclusive? I don't buy it for a year... Sometimes ever. Enjoy the Epic money kings, hope it's worth it.
Considering how many games are released unbaked, its a great decision.
Epic did save me from wasting money on Borderlands 3, so I'll give them that.
I feel the same, when the game is not available on GOG.
This makes actual sense tho since it's DRM free. Never understood the epic is evil but steam somehow is good. Both are DRM shills
Well I can only speak for myself, but I prefer games stores in that order:
There are business decisions with all of them that I dislike.
For the top dog PC game store, Valve could behave much much worse. Epic is still in the customer and game developer acquisition phase (and still behave like a d*ck with their exclusive deals), if the ever manage to push Valve aside, I believe they will be much worse.
Pretty sure this is a screenshot of the upcoming game Infinity Nikki and OP must have checked before they added the windows launcher for preload.
which I would literally do ANYTHING not to use.
Yar, me as well.
Literally anything? Great news!
If you go to the official website for the game Infinity Nikki, where the pic is taken, and look to the left of what the OP cropped, there is a standalone Windows download. You can just download the game.
The game is F2P so while it's not some big accomplishment to pirate like you're implying, it is almost certainly loaded with predatory monetization.
I haven't created an epic account even for the free games I don't care how many awesome games they give out for free. Fuck Epic
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.
Excuse my ignorance. What did Epic do?
Exclusivity deals with companies.
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.
Copying my reply to someone else:
Epic is anti-customer: https://medium.com/@unfoldgames/why-i-turned-down-exclusivity-deal-from-the-epic-store-developer-of-darq-7ee834ed0ac7
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
Exclusives of any kind are bullshit marketing ploys, at best.