Aside from Valve stuff, anything exclusive to Steam is only exclusive to Steam because it’s the only platform the developer themselves bothered to put it on. Not because they were paid by Steam to make it exclusive.

“I don’t want a monopoly, so every single major game release for the PC must be available on Steam and any other major platforms.”

To be fair, wasn’t one of the selling points for Epic’s store supposed to be that they curated their content so that things like this wouldn’t happen? And in the meantime, nobody who bought it there would know what was going on unless they looked elsewhere since Epic doesn’t have community sections.

I’ve never been able to get into multiplayer games. They’ll be fun for a few hours and then it’s just the same thing over and over again with no real purpose. They might as well be single-player games with no story where they stick you in one big room and say, “Here, just fight these guys forever.” The only difference…

Huh. Now I’m actually kind of curious as to how easy/cheap it is to get legitimate rights to stream cartoons. If someone with only a few thousand followers can do it, it must not be all that difficult.

I’d be excited for it if I actually had PlayStation VR...

“I doubt Sony owns the rights to that type of story.”

Unless their social media accounts get shut down, I can only see this causing them to *gain* more followers.

You’re not equating “bizarre” with “unfunny,” are you? The bizarre sketches are the best.

There have only been three seasons of The Ranch so far.

Sure, but only $2 more. I know I was exaggerating a bit, but the point still stands.

Right, but my point was that there would be no reason for them not to still sell it at the higher price so they could take in more revenue. Sure, the difference in the split means they don’t have to charge as much to take in the same amount as they’d have gotten from Steam, but that defeats the purpose of going with…

That kind of thing is what I’m afraid of. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they make it completely exclusive to iOS and Apple TV apps. Heck, I’d be surprised if they *don’t* do that. And if they do, it’ll be completely useless to me. (Though I could possibly see them offering episodes of stuff to purchase on iTunes,…

“it’s $10 cheaper on the Epic store than it would have been on Steam thanks to Epic only taking 12% of revenue as opposed to Valve’s 30%”

I’ve got to disagree on your point about the category being an issue. The Best Animated Feature award first became a thing in 2001, and in the 73 years of the Academy Awards prior to that, only one animated movie had ever been nominated for Best Picture (Beauty and the Beast). Since then, two animated movies have been…

I get developers wanting to go with Epic since they get a higher percentage of the revenue, but what do people in the comments here not like about Steam from a consumer perspective? I’ve never had a single issue with them.

“Except it’s not monopoly-adjacent.”

“Both stores are free to download so the consumer isn’t paying anything extra due to this exclusive deal.”

What? I thought they made a point of saying that they don’t modify cards after they’re released. I could swear that I read that in another article here within the last few months or so.

“...is literally the definition of a ‘preorder.’”