“This guy doesn’t like the Epic store. Obviously it’s because they love Steam!”

I don’t see how using a group of consumers who are getting fucked as an example justifies replicating the same system on another platform. You’re essentially saying since someone did it and others put up with it we should just accept it as the norm. It isn’t. Lots of console gamers are angry about exclusives.

Here are a few ways it’s anti-consumer:

That’s a poor comparison. What Epic Store is doing is more like if Gamestop purchased exclusive rights to sell Spider-Man for PS4. You can no longer find it at Best Buy, Target, PSN, etc. Oh, and in order to buy it from Gamestop you have to give them your credit card number, which they store in a small plastic bin on…

You are a fucking moron. The term ‘console wars’ exists for a reason.

Hmm, that’s something of a false equivalence. As a console gamer you’re tacitly agreeing that you will play ONLY the games that Sony expressly agrees to host on their operating environment. You play games at the whim of Sony. You literally cannot play a game Sony does not agree to host on a PS4 without manipulating…

yeah they did, especially during the Xbox360 and PS3 wars, man people were pissed at timed exclusives

Console owners absolutely lose their shit about exclusivity and its been a constant wrangling point between the camps every console generation. By this stage we kinda expect it so its loosely tolerated but I have nothing but shade for bought exclusives regardless of platform.

Hot take: it’s a problem on consoles too. What you're saying is it's not an issue because it's already an issue. That's not how logic works.

There’s a reason Valve takes a comparatively larger margin from sales. They didn’t practically set many standards in the gaming industry from nothing. With all those spiffy features we’ve gotten for free from Steam (API’s, cloud saves, etc), on top of managing storefronts in several countries (including taking the…

Says the company that works their employees to death and fires them if they want a weekend off.

Having less choice is a disadvantage for the consumer, so is having to use an inferior client. Console gamers are used to hardware exclusivity, I guess. I’d imagine they wouldn’t be too pleased if they had to download multiple launchers to their console requiring multiple accounts just to play certain games though.

If only they cared this much about their own employees.

Essentially admitting that exclusivity deals are due to some pissing match between them and Valve rather than being anywhere near an attempt at being pro-consumer.

In a professional setting (which this was since it is their job)

Maybe ‘second wife’ is some kind of euphemism for ‘bitch’?

Same. The entire thing seemed like trash talk between awkward autistic children,with one side being punished because they made an almost gender related insult.

I honestly don’t understand the joke

Maybe there is a nuance to the insult we are unfamiliar with due to cultural differences, like the lithuanian blackface girl.

The punishment definitely does not fit the crime.