Don’t you fucking gaslight me, you sniveling chickenshit troll. I didn’t move any goalposts and I didn’t take Valve’s side. I directly rebuked your bullshit. Fuck off of here and go be a willfully illiterate moron someplace.

First of all, one of your links was from before Epic turned heel. The other was Kotaku linking to Polygon’s excellent reporting.

Let’s keep the Pirates’ “increase” in perspective: That’s about 21K fans for the season-to-date in a stadium that holds about 38K per game. They probably made that during that brief, teasing moment of competitive competence in June, before the All-Star Break killed their momentum and they lawn-darted back into the…

1955 Ferrari 625 (not a Mercedes, when you needed a Benz to win)

In general, these are all 6- or 12-month timed exclusives. And Microsoft has snuck a few games like Metro Exodus out from under Epic through Xbox Game Pass for PC. Or, in the case of The Outer Worlds, Microsoft bought the studio outright and told Epic, “Our studio, our store. Deal with it.”

If Epic had launched their store as an “angel investor” indie showcase from the start, dovetailing with Unreal Engine dev grants, there would be only the tiniest fraction of the backlash they get now. Instead, their first three exclusive announcements were two games that already took pre-orders on Steam and a…

As opposed to the vibe from Quantum of Solace:

The mech wasn’t added for any competitive reason. It was added in an attempt to show up Respawn for not putting Titans in Apex Legends, their Titanfall spin-off battle royale. It backfired miserably, which is exactly what they deserve for their arrogance.

Here’s where a little training goes a long way.

Because they’re built in Sunderland?

I said the exact goddamn fucking opposite of that.

Exactly. This is not football, personal fouls do not offset.

Addressed down-thread. Nothing to do with OP’s straw man.

Straw man. Do better.

No mention of this?

“Exclusive” is a de facto term of art in the gaming industry. When applied to 3rd party games, it means “bought and paid for” as Epic does, not Valve. 

Long-debunked premise: Valve does not pay for exclusives. They never have. Every publisher has been free to choose where to sell their games besides Steam. That they generally choose to either not sell anywhere else or open their own company stores are decisions publishers make on their own.

A long-debunked premise and a straw man argument. Quite the winning hand you have there.

>lotta people up in arms about an inferior PC store throwing around massive amounts of mobile/console money to violate PC industry norms out of spite for the incumbent without providing any benefit to consumers.

Blizzard made peace with heroes’ 1st and 3rd person views not matching early in development, I think. Hanzo still isn’t as egregious as Moira’s hands appearing in 1st person while she Naruto runs in 3rd.