Epic pays developers and publishers to remove their games from competing platforms. Not only does that force consumers to use a quantifiably inferior platform (EGS), it also results in less competition. Less competition = worse prices. EGS also provides fewer payment methods than Steam, meaning that many people can’t…

It’s probably because Steam is objectively better than EGS. It has a vastly superior feature set, selection and sales (barring the $10 coupons that EGS will stop offering when they decide they actually want to make money).

Nobody’s complaining about a free game. They’re complaining about Epic’s business strategy and the amount of bullshit involved.

Then you always have those vocal ones in a public forum who will scream that they will never get it on EGS

is going to be a 12-month Epic Games Store exclusive

Has Valve ever thrown piles of money at developers to keep their game exclusive to Steam? No, they haven’t. It’s not the same situation and you know it.

Is anyone else getting to the point where they’re just kind of...ignorning Epic store release dates? Like I get that the “waiting for it to come to steam” comments are pretty much the status quo now; but it just occurred to me that Epic’s approach of buying timed exclusives has become so normalized for me that I’m not…

Its my own fault for biting that headline and then remembering it’s just a “saga” release. I really don’t trust Creative much these days with the core Total War series; they simply cannot stop fucking with mechanics and U.I that were almost perfect 10 years ago.

Sigh. Fuck the Epic Store and their mass exclusivity bullshit.
Get that swiss cheese of a backend away from my favorite series’.

Lost sales aside. I'll buy it from the bargain bin, one Steam sale. I wonder how much epic paid them to give the game away. 

A concise well told story with an actual ending goes a long way in this world of never-ending drawn out manga.

“The result is a marketplace where you can no longer buy a Switch or a Switch Lite at their normal price points.”

“The result is a marketplace where you can no longer buy a Switch or a Switch Lite at their normal price points.”

Sounds like you did mean the Lite. 

This is just WRONG. You can find msrp Switch Lites all over the place...such as the aformentioned Best Buy, in multiple colors lol.

“Square Won’t Let Me Take Advantage of a New Player Sale for a Game I Already Bought Years Ago”

Are you serious? “I have multiple older characters, I bought the game a long time ago, why can’t I play a free trial again?”

So you are mad that you can’t use a promotion that is aim at new account only because you already bought the game in the pass and already got your free 30days?

This is clearly a user error case and not a problem from Square-Enix...

This is a pretty misleading title. It’s worded like it’s hard for newcomers to take advantage of this sale, when in actuality, that’s not the situation. FFXIV “really doesn’t want you trying it again” because that’s not what the sale is. The sale going on gives away the base game for free, but you already bought the…

I mean what else is it suppose to do? You had the full base version and you’re trying to add something you already had. Not trying to sound blunt but this just sounds more like a rant post from a random forum then anything else.

This sounds like a tool assist...