No it’s definitely still competition.

“I want all my games in 1 launcher!”

I can’t imagine any kind of curation someone would implement on purpose would be worse than “no curation”.

But Steam is fine?  They aren’t capitalist?  They don’t exhibit shitty corporate behavior?  

Sony and Microsoft can justify that because of install base. Steam’s install base is Windows, which they do not own. Additionally, Sony and Microsoft can justify 30% by guaranteeing that players can’t pirate their console at least until the generation is up.

Why aren’t people mad at Valve as well? It’s not like Steam is some ultra consumer friendly paradise. The developers get paid more from the Epic store, as well. I get being worried about producer friendly platforms but I don’t get why people are pissed at Epic and not Valve for making a shit ton of money off products…

You mean shitty corporate behavior like promoting gambling, and creating a black market around csgo skins? Valve is no where near as noble as you think they are.

Last I checked Steam and the Epic Store were both free so I have no idea why the fuck anyone is complaining here. Oh, the chat sucks in the Epic Store? Do you actually use Steam chat over Discord like a fucking noob?

That’s what I don’t get about people being so mad about this. Like, Steam is cool but I’m not 100% married to the idea of it like some people are. I’ve only used the Epic game store to play two games, Ashen and Metro Exodus. Both were positive experiences. Both ran well, were fun to play and the client was easily…

Hey, you guys remember when Steam was tightly curated, and a vocal minority constantly threw a fit about Valve being overly selective? Then they established a system to let people vote on more stuff to bring in, and people continued to throw a fit because they didn’t like the way it worked? Then they opened the gates…

Your view on this is entirely incorrect. This isn’t “censorship”... or do you also think it would be censorship because a toy store doesn’t also sell real guns?

Just knowing that a human being is going to be reviewing submissions alone, for me, puts Epic’s system well above Valve’s algorithmic approach.

My main reaction to this is amusement at the contrast between that attitude and the quality of their own launcher. Honestly, I’ve said it before, but this is competition not for consumers so much as producers. I don’t really see anything good for the rest of us coming out of this bizarre intra-platform exclusivity war.

Sounds good to me.

This would certainly explain why Game of Thronesspawned an entire cottage industry while it would be remarkable if you’ve ever heard a human person talk about You or Sex Education out loud, but who can say? Not me, because I don’t and can’t know if Netflix is telling the truth—and not Netflix, because their numbers…

This screed is nothing but self-soothing garbage. You know when I knew it was time to check out? “As a professional television critic...” Oh, gee, yes, now your opinions carry weight. Please, do tell me how hard it is to professionally television critic binge-able shows, very relatable.

This article could have been titled:

I also am completely perplexed as to what the point of this was, other than to say Netflix makes his job harder.

It seems to me is that part of his complaint as a TV critic is he can no longer point you in the direction of the good stuff. There’s a shotgun blast of a new season of a new show with ten episodes all released at once, and next week there’ll be five newer shows, and three more the week after that.

I know they’re worried about legal ramifications, but at some point I think Valve just needs to come out and say: