Sweeny knows Valve can’t easily do this, so he’s taking advantage of that by taking the podium to look like the good guy.

Well, I have two realms of argument for you, here...

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.

I agree, your ignorance is embarrassing.

You have two stores that sell food... let’s call them “Bert’s” and “Vinnie’s.”

Bert’s is the only place you can get tomatoes. This is not because Bert’s is cheaper for the consumer, but because Bert’s has a deal with the tomato grower to not sell to Vinnie’s.

That’s against the law, because now, Bert’s can sell those…

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…

Steam provides Family Share, Regional prices in the countries own money, regular sales, workshop, mod service, a huge and vast backend for developers so they don’t have to think of anything but to puting the game on their platform and a huge amount of other things EPIC isn’t even close to provide.

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.

Ummm... Console gamers have to buy a whole other $400 console if they want to play exclusives. And they do complain about timed exclusives, look back at Destiny and the Sony timed exclusives.

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.

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.

Those aren’t really comparable situations though, are they?

I’m starting to feel like we’re getting to a point where nothing is allowed. I mean, the context here, for example. She isn’t making fun of black people in any way. She’s trying to remain true to the character, who happens to be black. It would be one thing if she had done something deliberately offensive, but she’s…

Isn’t that something of a facile position though?

No, she can’t do that. If she just wear clothes it will be whitewashing .