Hand of Fate 1 and 2. Developer went under recently, even when both games were popular. Also Runic, developer of Torchlight 1 and 2, was closed last year - although I’ll admit this one was likely corporate meddling. Robot Entertainment, from Orcs Must Die! had to lay off more than 30 members in 2018, even when the…

If all that’s true, exclusivity primarily serves the platform, and we ought to be skeptical of it whether Steam or Epic is the beneficiary.

People hate them even when they will reluctantly use the service for some of the bigger games like Borderlands.

For instance, getting an up-front payment and less percentage taken out of each sale is great. However, exclusivity - and therefore missing other highly trafficked storefronts - does mean a smaller chance of discovery (the probability the other storefronts market your game to existing users) and lower total sales.…

There’s a difference between ad hoc exclusivity (a developer happening to decide to sell on Steam and not other platforms) and platform-enforced exclusivity (a platform demanding a developer be exclusive as a service agreement)

I’m gonna be absolutely autistic here, but I think the reason OP sees Walker as less creepy than Savile or Jackson is that Walker dated two sixteen year olds while the other two fucked literal children like, under ten.

Yeah both things are illegal but let’s be honest one of them is waaaay more illegal than the other.

I…

The only indies that get lots of attention on Steam are Stardew Valley-like unexpected gems that become phenomena. Your average indie game doesn’t get one tenth of that attention, particularly if you don’t even have an established publisher (SV had chucklefish.) Yes, some indies thrive, but many more quality indie…

Probably a straw man indeed, but then again I’ve heard those guys say shit like “Companies are only speaking well of Epic because the contract states they must,” which is about as big a straw man as this, if not bigger, so...

Internet comments are never going to be what influences me to buy a game or not, but toxic behavior from the developers themselves?

So you can’t sell on Epic Store without being exclusive if you are an indie? Then dont sell on Epic Store at all. Sounds like its a raw deal IMO, even more reason to stay away from them as a consumer. Epic Store has the smallest user base of people actually buying games than any other market, why would you want to…

Now something interesting that got pointed out from this video is the game DARQ which did NOT want to be an Epic Store exclusive, which resulted in an interesting response from Epic

If you backed a game through Kickstarter or Patreon, goals are not pre-orders, investing isn’t the same as buying.

I’ve been thinking of this. All this rage, all this hatred, all this definitely unacceptable behavior... fuck, it all only helps Epic. Every time rabid Steam fanboys throw a hissy fit at a dev, they just make themselves - and the largely silent and inactive towards bullying and trolling store of their choice - look…

I don’t think even Prince managed to pull it off. Sure, he kept being large, but that’s because he’d already become larger than life for some (and because he was a man - let’s be honest, Madonna or Cher wouldn’t be able to pull such shit off and remain popular.)

It basically took his death for him to appear all over…

You trying to say the Cheshire Cat’s teeth aren’t natural?

Sarah wore blackface once, twelve years ago, and has been saying she’s sorry about it since.

Yah noticed this. It’s quite absurd I must say.

Yeah, I’m sure I paid full price - I bought both games last week. ONI cost me $6.99 and Portia cost me $8.99 - ONI was further discounted over the weekend to like $5, but I had already bought it by then.

As far as I know, EGS has a much more comprehensive regional pricing scheme than Steam, although apparently by your…

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…