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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Cool

Epic Games store and Tim Sweeney are both still peices of shit.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't wait to get more games on my Epic deck, oh wait it was Valve who pioneered an incredible platform that can play AAA games on a handheld running Linux and made compatibility a reality for thousands of games.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They didn't pioneer it, companies like GPD did. Not shitting in the Steam Deck, love that thing. Just wanting to get the facts straight.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I think it still counts, due to all the work they did on the software side.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Steam is good, but competitors can only make it even better. Worst case it doesn't change.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Steam wins again by doing nothing

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

100% of $0 is still $0.

I'll spend my money on platforms that have proven to respect their customers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

What's epics problem? I only log in to get free games but I think competition should work out better for the consumer

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

They could literally just copy steam, add their "we take less of a cut" thing, and be in a good place.

Instead, using their storefront sucks, their customer service sucks, they lack features you'd expect of a major platform, and they're pretentious dicks about it. Instead of fixing these obvious problems, they're bribing devs for exclusivity, pumping their marketing with bullshit, and litigating apple over their app store (actually that last one is kinda great). The epic store today would be competition to steam if steam was still as it was 20 years ago when everyone hated steam.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Competition is usually always a good thing, but sadly no launcher has ever brought anything new to the table that Steam hasn't already been doing (they usually just bring headaches).

Epic doesn't want to compete fairly (by providing a great user experience, etc). They want to compete by paying for exclusives & bribing users with free games. Obviously this hasn't worked because they are loweri g fees, likely to try to get the growth they just aren't seeing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

For the consumer multiple platforms sucks. There's already competition for selling steam keys as well. Epic doesn't want to pay other platforms for anything fortnite, anything else they do is to justify why they shouldn't have to pay like every one else.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Because they have to, because their store is based in bribing developers for artificial exclusivity in an attempt to hurt Valve for proving that Pig Swiney was a moron a decade ago when he said PC gaming was dead.

This is all a vain attempt by a man child to get back at Gabe, and it’s abso fucking lutely a hilarious delight what an abject failure it all is.

Garbage store with no customer services struggles and burns money, because that’s what’s lazy customer fucking cash grabs should do - burn. Fuck epic, fuck Swiney, and fuck you if you defend them.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

At least Valve takes some of the money that they make from Steam and use it for Steam. You cant run an entire gaming platform based on developers alone, you also need to make it at least somewhat bearable for consumers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Oh hell yeah. This shit crazy good

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Good for them, but until EGS starts being more pro- consumer, I'm not spending a cent there

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

even if they do become pro-consumer you shouldn't spend there. because it'd be a temporary affair and soon as they win market share from steam it'll disappear.

[–] [email protected] 174 points 3 days ago (71 children)

Steam really needs something like this. Even the first 100k would be a great start for boosting indie devs.

Instead they do the opposite and reward the big players.

Steam actually reduces their cut as you hit certain milestones. For your first $10M in sales, they take that standard 30%. Hit the $10M mark, and their cut drops to 25% for sales between $10M and $50M. Push past $50M, and Steam only takes 20%.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago

And yet, still, they can go fuck themselves.

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