You’re asking if two different companies that both sell video games are in competition with each other.

Ah, yes - GOG is famously “a gigantic company”, right? And the only way they’ve managed to compete was “to bleed cash for a long time”, right?

This ^^^

EGS’ main problem is that it doesn’t really have a selling point for consumers. GOG is DRM-free. MS Store has Game Pass and many of its games support cross-buy and cross-play with Xbox. Steam has an industry-leading feature set. EGS has... a larger revenue split for developers? Consumers don’t really give a crap about…

I agree, it is really easy to see that exclusivity doesn’t benefit the customer.

Exactly. Making a purchase online is completely devoid of the sunk cost fallacy of “We might as well buy some more stuff now that we drove 45 minutes to get here.”.

People who are exceptional at one thing frequently assume that they must be exceptional at every thing. To make matters worse, we have a society that does everything in its power to back up this delusion. Then, to make matters EVEN worse, we live in a capitalistic hellhole where people don’t even need to ACTUALLY be…

Well, for one, the company remained private even after it gained the dominant market share. Most companies go public so they can make even more money.

More stores are good

The thing about Epic’s strategy is it’s basically just applying the brick and mortar ‘get people in the door and try to catch their eye with an impulse buy’ tactic but applied to the digital space, but without consideration that customers don’t behave the same way in digital space as they do irl.

I think their plan was to spend millions (billions?) on user acquisition, then slowly cut back on that and hope that consumers continue spending money in the store. They’ve already started slowing down on their exclusivity deals, giveaways, coupons, etc, but I don’t think they’re getting the expected growth in…

How can it be profitable though?  Like, they give us 1-2 free games every week.  So that’s an automatic loss.  And because of those freebies, I’m far less likely to even buy games anymore.  There’s a very small margin of games that’ll i’ll pay for.  The rest i’ll wait and if they go free, great.  If not, ah well.   On…

If Gabe does eventually sell the company, I suspect he’d sell it someone he trusts to handle it properly.

Quite a few actually. It just depends one the type of game.

“The ease with which secrets, spoilers, exploits, glitches, and all kinds of other gameplay discoveries could be instantly shared completely changed how people played games and talked about them.”

100% Musk was trying to charge Sony to access Twitter’s API. 

Ozymandias, indeed.

I use the share button a lot, but not to post to Elmo’s Hindenburg. Good on Sony for ditching that trashheap, though I’m sure it’s because Elmo wanted to charge them One Beeeeelyon Dollars (pinky finger to mouth) to keep doing it.

Another banner day for Elon Musk, the smartest man alive.

So the Share button has effectively become the YouTube button now?

I guess you could use it to post to Facebook, if you’re like, old as bones or something.