Square: We’re gonna replace these FF games.

Okay, now write this same article about Sony releasing Horizon, God of War, Last of Us, and the many other exclusives.

Seems like there might be a good market for a digital store that specifically caters to explicit sexual content.

they want to burn everyone down and be the only ones standing.

You can say the same thing about buying into a closed system.

Every article about this lawsuit has been either ‘neutral’ or ‘in favor’ of Epic. Even in the recent article on Epic stealing money from developers in their free give-aways, Kotaku had apologia. Even this is ‘WHY DIDN’T THEY CARE ABOUT TIM SWEENY!? HE’S IMPORTANT!”

Just a note: the Quantic Dreams games and Kingdom Hearts were already from companies who put out games on PC. Sony has already established that they’re porting/allowing some of their Playstation exclusives to go to PC. Epic didn’t start this trend from them. Kingdom Hearts was spread across Nintendo and Sony consoles…

while other PC developers could, they seem to stick to a few stores. That goes for (in a lot of cases) Square Enix, Bethesda, and a few other big names. So if Steam has de facto third party exclusives, what’s the problem with Epic paying for the same? Ask Sega and Microsoft how things go when you don’t have third…

Restricting games to singular storefronts on PC does not benefit the consumer.

And as other consumer reports have cited: EPIC’s exclusivity deals this year dropped from ~100 over the last 1.5 years, with only ~20 prospective exclusives on the horizon.

For me, the issue is that one company is forcing exclusivity for exclusivity’s sake while the other was essentially a file distribution method that got so big that almost every PC developer uses it (and still can use others if they want).

Or you know, they could actually be a competitive by providing a better marketplace that wasn’t as resource intensive and was more user-friendly than Steam.

Consumers don’t benefit from exclusivity deals at all. idk where you got that idea.

So literally no-one benefited from their aggressive exclusive acquisitions (except, I suppose, devs whose games might not have otherwise made as much).

I used steam back when I had a gaming PC and occasionally on my MBP. In my eyes Steam is like the default go to for gaming on PC. While other store fronts exist I never think about using them.

Those numbers are awful for the participating publishers/devs. Subnautica was paid $1.4M for 4.6 million entitlements which means Epic paid about 30c a copy. And from a quick skim, that’s the highest paid game on the list.

and may explain why they’re going to war with Apple over getting a larger % of app store cuts. 

oh no what will i ever do i didn’t platinum one game out of the approximately several hundred that exist

Turning one of my favorite characters, with a mouth as foul as her heart is big, into an object to gawk at in order to score invisible video game points is childish and offensive.

Maybe they paid a 13 year old to put the suit on you freaking killjoy. So long as it doesn’t go too far, let a 13 year old live out their dreams.