I went through the same. I think part of the problem, so to speak, is that not only has MTV as a brand grown irrelevant over the last decade, but that much of the thunder the VMAs used to have has been stolen by the Grammy, of all ceremonies.

Hulu only services the US, tho. Netflix is worldwide.

Not better than Diane Warren’s. Or Linda Perry’s. Or Tori Amos’s. Or Dido’s. And that’s just off the top of my head.

I’m wondering why this guy has been dead for a decade and it’s just now that his will is reported as missing, by a third party who had no stake nor claim over it to boot.

oh but the theory you proposed is that there are so many Fortnite users that stuff on EGS will sell well. Hmm

Ms Store has “Far fewer?” MS Store is on every installation of Windows 10, and has launched support for regular Windows binaries instead of unified windows format, but also has GamePass PC. Not to mention cross over from Xbox One userbase.

Explain all the 3rd party games on MS Store (majority 3rd party games), itch.io (pretty sure only 3rd party games), Origin (tons of 3rd party games, including Ubisoft’s) , etc

My point still stands - you don’t have numbers. You don’t know how many users are really Steam only, how many hate Epic, and how many would only buy from GOG and other stores (though that’s moot, since all the stores you mention other than GOG don’t really take third-party devs anyway.)

All you know is that a vocal…

The discovery queue is full of trash. Sometimes it will output something good, most of the time... it won’t.

As for those developers selling lots... that’s my point. Indie games that have sold loads still have their devs go bankrupt. Indie games that haven’t lacked discoverability or praise from both gamers and gaming…

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