![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, competition is good - and we have it already in the PC space with Valve, EA and Blizzard, GoG etc all having stores, as well as the capability to go it alone and just sell your game without a storefront. I don't boycott Epic because Steam is "better", I boycott Epic Games because of their really shady practices regarding PC exclusivity and the way they strong arm developers behind the scenes while publicly saying they're better for the industry. It's not that Epic themselves are necessarily machiavellian in their goals, just that it feels a bit disingenuous for them to mask their goal of becoming Valve in a cloak of lies about "freeing us all" from Valve. Edit: also critically the store isn't available in many places that Steam is (with the answer: tough!) and there's no good way for other countries where it is available for decent local pricing. Not to mention the very lacklustre identity theft and account security issues. There are no achievements, no shopping cart, no family sharing, as well as several other missing or broken features. This was at a time when the Epic "store" was nowhere near feature-comparable with Steam, yet Epic were still touting the huge benefits to gamers. They strong armed smaller developers with punitive exclusivity agreements hidden by NDAs and they bribed larger publishers with some of the Fortnite cash.įor example, The Outer Worlds was meant to launch on Steam as well as other platforms when it came out but Epic bribed the publisher to make it Epic-exclusive for at least 12 months on release, despite all the prior marketing including Steam. Ostensibly they are publicly "pro consumer" and claim that their motives are altruistic and will be good for both developers and gamers, however, what they truly want to do is simply replace Valve as the main way to buy games on PC. In their attempt to unseat Valve as the de facto way to buy games on PC they engaged in some extremely shady practices. Send us a message with proof, and we'll give you some flair to show it! Disable header animation Enable header animation Δ | Support/bug reports | KerbalAcademy | ConsoleKSP Last contest's winner: forteefly1998! Have you developed a mod? See this page for more infoĬommunity Teamspeak Server Refrain from submitting images that involve real life space disasters that resulted in loss of lifeĭon't post/discuss mirrors or torrents of any version of KSP See the discussion on misc posts for more info No posts unrelated to KSP or memes and image macros. Please remain kind and civil at all times
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