I did not realize they were trying to compete in the first place.

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    Epic also generated a lot of bad blood by scooping up Kickstarter projects and ordering the devs to cancel the Steam releases, releases that had already been paid for by backers. A bunch of potential customers refused to buy from Epic on principle after that.

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      Yup, that and pushing “exclusive” bs in general made sure I will never use Epic.

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        So you want all devs to just play the lottery and hope that some Twitch star picks up their game to make it popular?

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          He wants games to release on all platforms. Where is the ‘lottery’ rhetoric coming from?

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            The Epic bros think that businesses shouldn’t have to compete on the market to sell their product, they should just get a big grant from Epic Games for making their game exclusive.

            That’s some pretty communist rhetoric coming from a group worshipping a corporation. Epic Games are not your communist revolutionaries.

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              No, I believe that devs should have the choice to take a chance and just hope their game sells OR sign and exclusivity contract in exchange for money that guarantees then they won’t have worked for nothing if the game is a flop.

              Releasing a game these days is a gamble because there’s so many being released every day, you can make an awesome game and it just won’t sell while an average game gets picked up by a couple of Twitch streamers and the dev becomes a multi millionaire.

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      I’m one of them. For all their trash talk about Steam being a monopoly, Epic Games sure pulled some hypocritical, anticompetitive shit in their attempt to replace one monopoly with an objectively worse, consumer-hostile one.

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        Epic Games is creating a monopoly in PC gaming - they keep making bad decisions and leaving Steam as the only good option

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          Look at market shares, Steam is in a monopolistic position, they can turn around and fuck up the whole market whenever they want, and people like you are encouraging it.

          You realize that they’re anti DEI over there? I don’t think drag would ever be hired by Valve!