Am sorry. Adding features that have been on Digital distribution platforms fo years os not exactly good. Its going very very slow for a company that makes so much money.
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EGS adds self-service refunds + keyless integration
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Nah, I really didn't even remember that Tencent was involved with Epic. Tencent isn't something I usually think about, they're pretty irrelevant in my life. My complaints about Epic have been entirely something else. Though I either don't differentiate between US or Chinese spying.
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It's a way to control "people " that buy 100, 1000, 10000 cheap keys using other people's money and then sell them for profit.
... Did you want to make an excellent argument for scrapping keys? Because that's what you just did.
While he did eloquently describe the issue to an extent, this isn't really what these measures aim to mitigate. None of the big players are really that concerned with arbitrage (to a point of course). It's the organised abuse that causes the real problems.
I'm sure you'll find that the publishers will set lower limits on the prices keyless games can be sold. Trading in keys vs direct activation from authorized resellers means that stores can sell them at whatever price they want, since they have already been paid for in bulk.
It also gives publishers the power to pull games from sale immediately and prevent them from activating. I have several games in my Steam Library which I would not have been able to purchase if they were distributed via a keyless system.
The system I have seen there is a fixed wholesale price which the activations are sold at (likely the price that keys are sold at)
Resellers can choose to sell it for any price they want.
Just like there is now, resellers can obtain discounts/bulk buys with distributors/publishers on that wholesale price, just as they can with keys/physical games.
Eh, nightmare is a bit of an overreaction. I mean, don't get me wrong, it was archaic but only took me an e-mail and a couple of minutes. Glad they made it self-service though.
Is this...what I think it is? A meta launcher? So I don't have to stress about all the different launchers.
The dream is already a reality?
It has been for a while. There's Launchbox, which a lot of people love. I've been tinkering with it recently on recommendation from someone here, but I personally don't like how it works.
An open source launcher called Playnite exists too, and I prefer it. It even works with Windows Store/Game Pass for Windows games - keeping everything in the same desktop or big picture launcher.
Thanks for the recommendation. Will give them both a shot and see how I go.
So Epic gets a cut of third party keys if it is an exclusive? LOL
I guess we know why third party quickly change to Steam when possible.
Don't they already take a cut on the keys sold off store? Beside they use the "partners" so it's only natural, so I'm not sure what's the issue here or is the issue that it's not exactly like steam where they offer keys without any cut off store.
It basically shows that the third party key selling is a sham for Epic as they have full control of it and profit from it. There is no real price competition when someone is able to fully control it and will always get the same amount of money.
