From what I read, that is what they said. And that is cool.

I mean fuck, if we are talking only about money here then in some ways companies would be fools to not take Epic’s money, but you would have to calculate if what Epic is offering you is worth all the hate you are going to get AND the potential lost sales you would have gotten from Steam given that Epic has a smaller…

This epic/steam thing is obviously incredibly divisive, so really they’re just appealing to like, half of their potential customers and pissing off the other half that were already gonna be pissed off anyway.

^ This.
I was a huge Ooblets fan; been on their Discord a long while now, keep up with all their devlogs, etc... but I’m not okay with installing a Tencent-owned piece of software on my computer for a whole slew of reasons(such as not being okay with their aiding the PRC in the ongoing genocide and “reeducation” camps…

Isn’t the backlash with the exclusives the fact that they happen after they were planned to release on Steam? I don’t think people care all that much if the announcement comes before people have sunk money into the games. I know I don’t care. I can wait to buy my games as I have many, many on my backlog. I prefer…

No one should be preordering. 

No one should be preordering. 

No more preorders until games start being released fully developed again.

No more preorders until games start being released fully developed again.

Way to hold firm on Kotaku’s don’t preorder policy.

Way to hold firm on Kotaku’s don’t preorder policy.

how many articles has Kotaku written saying NOT to pre-order video games?

how many articles has Kotaku written saying NOT to pre-order video games?

You could hear me scream from several blocks away. I’m still crying. 

Epic can still get fucked. Throwing around Fortnite money to make the PC space genuinely worse when it’s finally on the rise after being neglected for multiple console generations is a shit move, and supporting it, as well as Tencent, makes the people defending their practices a part of the problem.

Why am I hearing about this on lifehacker and not from google itself?

I think I had the same moment of panic that you did. Thank you for pointing this out. Emily, you do your readers a disservice by misrepresenting the article.

I wonder if she feels ashamed for that article title. Because I do for her.

That’s the clickbaity-est headline that ever clickbaited. The only thing dying is the “Google Drive for PC/Mac” applications — Google Drive (i.e., user file storage in Google’s cloud) will live on. And then there’s this:

This article is beyond misleading.

Worst clickbait title ever.

Wait, WHAT? I’m reading in the comment sthat the Google Drive service will remain - for an article titled “Here’s what you need to know” that’s a pretty huge omission!

Thank you for clarifying this.

Yes. Misleading article, Drive as a service isn’t going anywhere.