Devs gotta think about Steam like this - it has the biggest number of users, so it also has the biggest diversity in terms of tastes, public for niches and whatnot.

“Just look at all the comments here claiming some kind of Anti-Steam, Pro-Epic agenda across the Kotaku site.”

Back in Obama or Clinton times, a President’s child would be disrespectful wearing such a slovenly outfit.

Not really the same. Steam started as a distribution service. The primary reason developers use steam keys is for distribution and then DRM. Steam also allows for developers to release their games outside of their service on competing platforms without (to my knowledge) a 6+ month exclusivity window.

I agree, i feels like its the same article every week. There is so much you can talk about regarding this (including the mistakes Valve has made), but instead you always get the same old “Harassment bad, Blame Valve” article without any new information but it still leads to 1000 comments, lots of screaming, and a lot…

Some of those...shit, what're they called...? ::snaps fingers:: Ah, right, "real-world repercussions" might just clear that right up.

That’s not the same as the third party exclusives to the Epic store that people are upset about. These comments don’t exist in a vacuum; the articles provide context.

Oh haven’t you heard? The Kotaku brand of staunch pro-Epic defenders will happily tell you that “the Epic store isn’t missing anything that’s actually important”. I’m not even kidding, I’ve seen someone try to argue that “a shopping card isn’t an important feature for an online store”, and focusing on it just…

The development roadmap still exists, they just no longer put how long it will be until those features are implemented.

Ever since EGS’s launch, Kotaku suddenly stopped writing about the abuses of Epic in Fortnite, the vaunted ‘developer crunch’ that Epic keeps putting developers through, or the sexism allegations. Just shiny, fun times press.

Tim Sweeney himself has done far worse when it comes to getting more devs harassed. Remember the Ooblets hubbub? Guy was directing people to the original blog post (which, despite what Grayson and others say, wasn’t a great post) with a snarky comment. Of course that riled up the worst parts of the Internet, because…

The use of the word “unfair,” he said, was meant to reference the timing of the announcement rather than the entire concept of exclusivity.

Man even when there hasn’t been any recent review bombs or harassment you guys still manage to write an article about it.  How about an article about how Epic has abandoned their Epic store development roadmap?  Seems like news to me that the company throwing millions at exclusives cant seem to get even the most basic…

Jack Ryan is the American ideal in one tightly knit package: he knows everything, is physically at the peak, is a rugged individual who is always against impossible odds, who can look experts in the eye and say ‘I know better than you’, and ultimately discards all negotiation in favor of brusque violence.

But I’ll take it...I’ve never stopped about praising Warren. She deserves every bit she gets.

The only reason it’s not popular to say that objectively evil entities like Shell and Exxon are destroying humanity’s ability to survive is that there wealth and power have been allowed to buy public discourse. Corporate media, like CNN, make their dirty living off of this. The truth about these criminals should…

You... you hate greek and middle eastern food?? Damn. I honestly just can’t even understand how that feels. Give me some kofta, labneh, falafel, tabouli and humus and I am in heaven.

Not only that, I personally find middle-aged Lucy Lawless hotter than young Lucy Lawless.

I’m the odd person in out in that I like the bare-bones nature of the current library.

A skill I’ve honed recently is to take anything these nutbags say and assume that they are just fucking talking about themselves.  Projection at its finest.