Telling black people how to feel about black issues, misinterpreting their comment with your own warped view, and accusing them seeking karma points is virtue signaling in itself you prune.

Cyberpunk 2077, Death Stranding, and Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order to name a few AAA games that launched/are launching on EGS the same time as Steam. I have no doubt Epic reached out to one or more of these studios and inquired about some sort of exclusivity deal but was denied, didn’t stop them for putting the games…

Seems like the only magic trick Randy is good at is conning people

It’s completely unfair because you know for a fact if any AAA companies like Rockstar, Ubisoft, or EA turned down any similar exclusivity deal Epic wouldn’t throw up their hands and say: “Welp, we’re not gonna sell Star Wars: The Jedi Fallen Order now because it will be on Steam the same day.”

Obviously they’re not…

You forgot the part where Epic wouldn’t allow him to put his game on EGS after he said no to the exclusivity deal.

That’s an interesting thought of who Epic sees as their competition now, but it also raises a bigger question: “How big of a publisher does Epic want to become?” Do they want to be just a small indie publishers so they can fund games from the ground up but also slap their publishing label on a game they just purchased…

You mean how Epic “fairly” treated Unfolds Games (developer of DARQ) when they declined an exclusivity deal?

Obviously Epic is gonna force the developers of the games they’re publishing to ONLY run on Unreal and be released exclusively on the Epic Store.

(Not really, and I too have no idea what OP meant be conflict of interest.)

So some PlayStation trolls brag about exclusives and you think the best course of action is to stoop to their level and make yourself look like an ass?

I love both Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing (haven’t played Harvest Moon, but hope to someday)! They’re a lot alike but one big difference between both is the passage of time. Specifically in Stardew Valley a day can last about 15 minutes and you can theoretically go through a whole season in one play session if…

DRM free is great, and would’ve made GOG the place to buy Half-Life 2 if the store was out in 2004 and Valve released the game on it too. Times have changed, Steam actually functions now, and people who have HL2 are content with it. It would be cool if Valve brought it’s older titles to GOG, but I doubt many people…

The “shtick” is old games made accessible again for newer hardware. All of Valve’s older titles still work fine on Steam. Doesn’t really have anything to do with my original question though, as anyone who wanted these game has already brought them. I really doubt anyone would rebuy them again on GoG/Origin...

I mean, is there any reason a game from 2011 should be brought to GoG now almost 10 years after the fact?

They’ve been working on the game since mid-2016, perhaps they’re just burnt out on the project and want to do something fresh? I’m not so naive to believe there wasn’t any “gentle pressure” from senior employees to work on this game as a result of the famed: “flat-but-maybe-not-so-flat” company hierarchy.

Though I…

This is such a bad take that took such a sharp turn in the last paragraph it’s almost comical. If HL:Alyx was purely a “desperate attempt from Valve to sell headsets” they would’ve made the game exclusive

Weirdly reminds me of the sand bird from Super Mario Sunshine

The initial comment was so vapid and shallow I mistakenly thought you were trying to make a point.

My bad.

Alright, I’ll bite.

PewDiwPie was always one for bad/edgelord humor, I’ll give you that. In some of his first videos, he did have some questionable jokes that didn’t age well at all. I don’t, however, really agree that was the main reason why people were subscribing in droves in the mid to early 2010's.

“The damage is done so he should just let his community rot instead of attempt to fix it” is a very weird stance to take but you do you.

Also, this line of thinking fundamentally ignores that people have the ability to change and improve. Implying it’s eventually “too late” to change and that people are better off just staying the same which is a very toxic mentality and damaging take to have on this situation.