But hey, at least devs are getting paid more. Nevermind that gamers from foreign countries with weak buying power to begin with are being forced to pay more in order to actually supplement this razor thin deal.

To be fair, you can often find help for common problems on the Steam forums for games, so on that level that’s a strike against EGS.

However, the forums do indeed fall into toxicity far too often, far too easily, so maybe a better way for people to write guides on how to fix stuff and the like should be devised than…

Yeah but they themselves often act condescendingly by going all “we can condemn both things, you know,” as if both acts were equal.

A developer can be shitty if they want. Don’t like it? Don’t buy their games and watch them go out of business. No need to expect Kotaku or any gaming website to write whole articles…

Well, the thing is Valve hasn’t really had any high-profile releases in almost a decade now, before crunch culture was widely documented.

They’ve been giving a free game every fortnight (now every week, sometimes two games a week) since December at least, and they’ve pledged to continue doing so for the rest of the year.

Many of those games are quite good, too, with things like Alan Wake, Enter the Gungeon, Moonlighter, Oxenfree, Overcooked, The Witness,…

Activision-Blizzard is also owned by a Chinese company, in this case NetEase. I’m yet to see the outrage about their games or people refusing to play any games of either company.

I’m also not really sure why the Chinese government would be so interested in my data. I’m honestly more worried about identity theft than…

They can ask you to leave the premises for doing that, too.

-Awful customer service.

As for the first point: no one is saying that anyone has a right to send death threats, but these devs did call people, even members of their patreon who sent them money, “entitled babies” for complaining.

This is only true if people gave you money before you did whatever it is you did. And even then, your only right is to ask for a refund - you definitely don’t have the right to send people death threats.

The difference for you, as a customer, being?

Valve doesn’t pay developers for exclusives simply because they have for a decade now held the PC market hostage. It’s easy to say “they’ve never paid for exclusives” when you’re willingly avoiding to look at the big picture and the reasons why such a practice was never…

Even if the quote is real (and I dunno if it is or not,) it’s hard to argue with the dev’s points when, you know, the gaming community are reacting exactly like entitled babies over this.

He should sue for pregnancy-related discrimination tbh.

So you only use Steam to play Half-life, Portal, Team Fortress, CS, DOTA2, and Artifact?

(Joking, nobody plays Artifact)

Because there are PLENTY of non-Valve games that are Steam exclusives. And Steam is a publisher storefront pretty much.

How is saying people aren’t entitled to somebody else’s work xenophobic?

Also, as somebody from Latin America who can get games on EGS for a third of the Steam prices, I laugh at your ideas that going with EGS is hating on third world countries.

Because developers, as far as I know, have never performed targeted harassment on gamers they dislike for stupid reasons, nor have they ever, once again as far as I know, sent gamers death threats for doing something they don’t like.

I know, it’s the kind of stuff you wouldn’t be surprised to see EA or Activision…

Curiously, Epic is the only launcher that offers regional pricing where I live - meaning games from there are almost always much cheaper, in some cases equaling a 70% discount compared with Steam.

I do see the spots. I don’t see the picture in the article as full color. It’s not the same.

Sure, if I squint and slant my head a bit I can see the picture as full color - but that’s just my brain doing its job by filling the blanks when information is lacking - it’s why I look at my computer screen and see a whole…

Your comparison is weak. This prescribed hat of yours cannot just simply give you motion sickness through the act of wearing it, because as the name implies, it’s through motion. No one gets sick playing Beat Saber, Moss, or SuperHot at 90Hz.

Imagine you had to wear a silly looking hat that gave you motion sickness and made you prone to hitting anything and anyone around you while also making it impossible to watch your three year old as you game.

That’s what VR will be for many people.

I’m not saying it won’t catch on in any way, but the future isn’t VR.…