My vitriol comes not from the decisions to go exclusive, but the attempts at justifying said decisions in extremely condescending tones. You won't see me shit talking Remedy instead of something like Devolver, for example.
yeah definitely irritating, although i never expected much better
I think people assuming all the EGS games are bombing and wont sell are in for a rude awakening soon enough. You dont seem to understand how small the micro-cosmos of this forum (or forums like it) is in the big picture. I've said this before, and granted that doesnt "prove" anything, but EVERYONE I know that plays pc games that doesnt frequent forums in general doesnt give 2 fucks where they buy the games. My entire wow posse is now a division posse, and was a battlefield posse before for example.
what i don't really know about the pc gaming market is how big of a deal whales are for it
i agree that most people not belonging to forums like this probably don't get a shit which launcher they use, but i'm also unsure how big a slice of the pie they represent compared to the whales you see here. considering that valve has often felt to me like they only hunt whales, i get the impression they matter a whole lot, but can't say for sure
like sure my friends bought overwatch or minecraft or whatever on outside clients, but also my friends don't really play that many games in the first place
meanwhile there's people that buy hundreds of games and if they represent a big part of the market then the epic store is gonna have a lot of trouble getting outside of the one or two exclusives
i wonder if epic couldn't have done something like origin (or was it uplay) does that keys you activated on steam also work on their store? at least just retroactively, so in the future you're motivated straight for them, or whatever. probably expensive to do but buying out all these exclusives can't be cheap either
