It’s actually simple: By not watching endless shounen shit.

no one is buying out exclusivity. its merely renting it.

Little bit of a different relationship though; the US government is generally a large client to the business. In China, to start a corporation or operate in China you have to give the Chinese government significant amounts of ownership of your company. Additionally, Tencent has been shown to actually give data to the…

Here’s Epic’s mission statement as I, a gamer and not a publisher or studio, have received it:

This is a lot of trickle-down ideas.

All good points, but without a more explicit breakdown I’m hesitant to point to something and say “hey, this is bad!”  Epic is giving me plenty of current, specific issues to be opposed to them in the present without my speculation about their corporate financing agreements and how generalized those are. 

Developers don’t get an extra %18. The publisher gets an additional 18%. Borderlands 3 is published by 2k games, that is one of the two subsidiary companies of it’s parent holding company, Take2 interactive. Guess what other games are under the Take2 umbrella. Most notably GTA, RDR, and the 2k sports franchises.

Because it offers almost no benefit over Steam, Blizz-store, Uplay, Origin?

Exclusivity isn’t platform-limited. It can be limited by any kind of factor. If the Epic Games store is the only store selling a digital product, then they have complete control over the price and how that product can be used. That’s obviously exclusivity by any reasonable definition. (That being said, the same thing…

True, but absent anything being made explicit, I’m not going to give them benefits of the doubt here, and especially not when games are already announced - from large, established publishers - and then become exclusive. What’s more, the way that EGS does curation means that the sort of devs who could really use that…

If you don’t get it, then post your name, zip code code, phone number and credit card info right here. So far no one who says they “don’t get it” has taken me up on my offer. Will you have the balls to be first?

It’s the present. No one should be forced to use what they find to be a less competent process to play a game, and no consumer should have to wait for parity before comparing between competitors. 

I’ve broken it out repeatedly elsewhere in this thread. Try there first. 

Features can be worked on, but they’re missing now, and there is no reason why someone should be happy to be forced to use a less competent process if they want to play a game at the moment. It’s the present, not the future. 

It is a problem, because it makes it harder to play games with friends when you split the…

The “ideal” of free market capitalism is that competition will increase innovation - selling to customers better products for lower cost. But purchasing third party exclusives isn’t innovation, it’s just the dude with the financial might gobbling up the market, which is essentially how monopolies work — and monopolies…

Most of that extra money is going to the publishers, if you think a significant portion of that is making it to the developers then that is a larger economic debate.

They aren’t getting 18% more of my money, they’ll get 100% less. I dont care if they put their game on other platforms, the moment they rip their game off Steam and crap on their consumer base means I wont be purchasing from them anymore. If I want to support them on Epic, thats my choice. They dont get to force me…

Less features, leaving existing friend networks behind, less price competition from authorized key resellers. You might not care about these things, but many people do, and again - no benefit to the consumer, trickle down economics aside.

That sounds like trickle down economics stuff, which has historically be pretty useless.

I mean, there’s a ton of stuff. Account security. More launchers. Existing friend networks. Feature set. Price competition from authorized key resellers.

Every argument I seem to see for EGS either a)says that since that person doesn’t care about those things, no one else does or can; b)has vague promises about…