Origin and Uplay were big deals when they came out. For similar reasons. Thing is, they only focused on exclusivity of their own products. They didn’t go out and grab products from other companies that were multiplatform and go specifically for timed exclusivity.

“As for Valve, all it has to do is lower its parasitic take”

Uplay, Origin, and B.net are company stores for Ubisoft, EA, and Activision Blizzard respectively. They bypassed (or in Blizzard’s case, never sold on) Steam to sell directly to customers. Even then, Ubi will sell on Steam, then force you into Uplay as an updater/launcher anyway. GoG Galaxy is a CD Projekt division,…

But once you download the install files (something you can do with every gog game), they can’t stop you from installing and playing it, license revoked or not. Something like steam requires the client to check in (or else you can’t play), something that gog doesn’t do.

Valve has to have a ton of overhead with all the servers they run, the constant updates from security threats, the market, VR, the community, and countless other things that Epic store does not have. I find it crazy that it even has to be mentioned.

I totally disagree. I can do all those things over a multi week period with countless breaks in between. 2 push-ups in the morn. 1 sit up just around lunchtime. You get my drift.  

I’m an overweight dude and I can do it. Granted, not all at once lol.

Why do you care? Are you selling games? You sound like a “Epic bro” to me for defending Epic with something that vast majority of consumers care nothing about. Why do you guys never talk about how great the store itself is? Oh, wait, you can’t because it’s barely a storefront as it is.

So you are saying they pushed back the release to April 2020?

My backlog doesn’t get in the way of my hype. My hype gets in the way of my backlog. 

Valve isn’t your parent, your babysitter, your teacher, or your priest. You keep saying that the responsibility lies with them without actually saying anything about WHY it should lie with them. You’re (supposedly) an adult, stop pretending that you shouldn’t own the responsibility for the content you consume. I have…

You either dig so deep on Steam to find things to get offended about, or you read Kotaku’s regular hitpieces on it and think they’re an accurate representation of Steam.

This. I have a 13 year badge and I’ve never seen any of these games that make the news for all the wrong reasons. Hell, I’ve barely curated anything in all those years. I have 7 items on my wishlist and maybe 3 or 4 I’ve picked as “maybe interested” but for the most part, I just go through the main page and check the…

The people complaining about the shitty/offensive games on Steam have likely never actually seen them on the store page. They just read articles about said games and pretend that they’re actually a huge issue when in truth, they aren’t. The person who discovered Rape Day didn’t just stumble across it. He or she…

You, and Kotaku, and most media outlets that report on this must just use a very different version of Steam than I do. Because while there’s certainly a ton of garbage on Steam I never actually see 99% of it. You actually have to look for the trash and if you’re regularly searching and digging for this shit that’s on…

I'd still rather only have the controller.

Yet another “why is this even an article on Kotaku?” moment.

I don’t post notes like this in Soulsborne games, nor do I find them funny... however, getting tilted enough to make a 2 page dissertation on the matter is fucking ludicrous. Go outside. Lighten up. Do literally anything else with your life.

I’m pretty sure that’s the appeal. People can join a game, get killed and immediately join another. They don’t have to stick around for a match that they’ll never win nor do they have to get killed by the same players repeatedly. Also, if they do lose, it doesn’t feel so bad because 99 other players will also lose.

There’s no version of an answer that doesn’t end with someone breaking into “Ice Ice Baby.”