Huh?

The Anti-steam bias is real...and obnoxious.

It’s most certainly NOT cheaper.  The removal of any way for a consumer to make their voice known is not a “better service”.  The Epic Store is anti-consumer.  GoG Galaxy on the other hand, THAT is a better version of the same service.

Offer me robust community features (a forum at the very least) and the ability to redeem the games on your store that I already own on Steam (as GOG does, in a limited but still growing way) and I may consider an eventual switch (when the scales get heavier on your side).

RTFA, the complaints are centered on the lengthy pre-order period that Exodus had and that Valve has to pick up the pieces dropped by the sudden pull-out.

Use Steam’s clout to advertise your game and then pull it, generate the controversy to drive in a few more sales from the Valve hate, paid the Steam tax to get a little more PR.

I’m glad people have options.. devs get more money.. etc, but sorry Epic, EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard, your libraries are too small to become my default launcher, and even getting bigger AAA titles just means I’ll go to my back catalog of unplayed Steam games.

I get that, but still a AAA just up and changing distro model after taking pre-orders and all that, including DLCs. I understand the money decision behind this and probably driving this, but I still think a close look at how this came about would be super enlightening.

Agreed, to pull this move this close to launch, after offering the pre-orders on Steam is crazy to me. 

I don’t have a huge problem with Epic pulling down the occasional exclusive. But in this case, it’s extremely shitty to do it only two weeks prior to launch. I was intending to use Steam credit for the purchase and now I’m hosed.

I don’t give a shit about it being “unfair” to Steam/Valve, but I’ve long had a problem with storefront exclusivity. EA’s Origin is a great example of how “vertical integration” keeps prices inflated.

Ok, Valve complaining about the “fairness” of anything is laughable, but I’m actually really curious about the decision-making process that led to this happening in this manner at this late a point.

I’m all for marketplace competition, but third-party exclusives are lame, and anti-consumer. 

I guess I’ll play this in 2020 when it hits gog.

Don’t feel bad. One of my laptops is worth only $3.15 so it’s going to be a test PC.

With the prices I got from the sites, I might donate my laptop for the tax write off. It’s probably worth more to me that way!

My old laptop that I want to sell is apparently only worth $50 bucks in pristine condition.. except for the busted SD card slot, and the fact that I upgraded the Ram in it.. Guess it will continue to be a paper weight at my house.

I don't think so- basically, you take a photo of car in a public, they-don't-expect-to-be-photographed place, you obscure. If you take a picture of a car in a place where it's likely to be photographed (car show, for example) it's up to the owner to obscure.

Well, here was my thinking about that. Yes, you're technically right, but I think obscuring as a courtesy is not a bad idea. Sure, that nice old Westy in Park Slope expects all of Brooklyn to see the plates, but can we really expect them to assume people all over the world will see it? So, I say, just as a courtesy,…

As somebody who photographs cars at car shows somewhat frequently, I have two rules: