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'Turns out having your game be free on Epic is great advertising for Steam sales': New Blood chief says Blood West sold 'like 200% more' the day it was a freebie on EGS (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago

If you want to warn, then warn directly

What would that look like, besides what I've done?

I don't think any of you know what you want. You act like I've done something wrong, and when pressed on what exactly that is, you cannot provide a reason, but will not re-examine the assertion. Any amount of context is the wrong amount, any approach is the wrong approach, any tone is the wrong tone. The nature of bad faith is that there is no right answer.

And this is over agreement. I'm used to people getting weird when they insist Steam isn't an obvious monopoly. The exact same weirdness becomes novel when it's from people insisting it's too obvious. I'm getting shit on both for explaining why being a monopoly is not intrinsically evil, and for explaining why we should be concerned about them anyway... and I'm getting shit on as though I did neither of those things... in the same comment. Baffling.