Valve isn’t buying exclusives..

Development funding and revenue guarantees doesn’t mean they’re giving you money, tho. If games aren’t funded, they aren’t made - so we go back to the Bayonetta 2 Nintendo exclusive thing. It was a Nintendo exclusive because Nintendo funded it, plain and simple. It’s the same here. I believe that’s also the reason why…

And your point is? I still can’t see any argument in your statements that can’t be defeated with your own arguments.

Because all those launchers only had their own companies games. No one is faulting that.

Origin and UPlay are publisher platforms, which is not the same thing.

You know what EA didn’t do? Retroactively make their games on Steam an Origin Exclusive.

Depends. Are you talking about Steam as a distribution method for the download or actually only being available to purchase on Steam?

No one should be forced to use what they find to be a less competent process to play a game

Thing is, all successful PC digital distribution platforms are either 1) first-party apps (Origin, Battle.net,) 2) niche stores (GOG,) or 3) Steam resellers (Humble, GMG, Fanatical and a million more).

Steam doesn’t really have any competition on the PC space, because nobody has really tried to take them on - instead,…

Epic is literally creating a 6 month monopoly on Borderlands 3. When people complain about that, you criticize them for supporting a monopoly...

Steam does not have exclusives except for there own developed games, just like Epic has Fortnight and such. Steam never limits someone to only use there platform which is why you have things like humble bundle and greenmangaming, even uplay allows games to be purchased through steam because of its reach.

I also guess people are pissed because of how games like outer worlds and metro used steams infrastructure to get known and then pulled out. Maybe people would be more OK with without those last minute exclusive deals.

Vote with your wallet.

But if this “boycott” is anything like previous ones done by Steam players, I’m quite sure most of those review bombing the game on Steam will be buying the game on Epic day one.

To my knowledge, Epic has nothing like SteamWorks... it’s one of the features Steam has as a value-added service, something Epic doesn’t even seem to know the definition of.

So epic trys to force people into a bad option of a launcher with exclusive deals, something the PC Community always despised and the first point I remember from wwwwwaaaaaaaaaay back, that sparked the PC vs console war.

You’re aware none of these high-profile developers would be taking Epic’s money if their offer didn’t also come with a much higher cut of the sales than Valve’s, right?

Steam still has the larger userbase among PC enthusiasts, so no amount of money Epic paid for an exclusive would be worth it at all if Epic wasn’t also…

Epic actually allows you to use the Steamworks API to connect your account and find if any of your friends are also on Epic. So yes, if people connect their accounts it should be painless.

Actually, Epic has in place a multiplayer/matchmaking structure that’s said to work regardless of where a game was bought or ran from (ie, Epic, Steam, Origin, Uplay...) without requiring the Epic client.

Unlike Steam, where their built-in matchmaking, Steamworks, is dependent on players using Steam.

It’s also entirely possible Epic paid to have the games ported to PC, thus making the exclusives understandable.

There’s a reason why the show has been running since 1969, and there’s also a reason why Japanese students should be watching it.