I would like to jump in and say that I have ~30 titles in my Epic Store library that were given out for free. Just this past week I got free copies of Celeste and Inside, both of which are quality games. They were given out as a way to entice people away from Steam. Origin used to do this as well.
So in that way I could argue that yes, as a consumer, Epic's attempt to compete with Steam has netted me 30 free games. That's definitely a positive, and it is definitely due to competition in the space.
Now obviously EGS lacks a lot of Steam's features, but free games are free games, and I wouldn't have gotten them if EGS didn't exist.
So to say EGS doesn't drive competition or provide some benefit to consumers isn't completely true. I'm not going to comment on pricing models and things on the dev side. But as a consumer I have most definitely benefited from the existence of EGS.
@tommy2kool read the above. This is a poster worth answering to.
Misterbee what you say is indeed true. Personaly speaking 30 free games when the client doesn't meet the basic standards any online store are not exactly what i'd consider consumer friendly. Specially because I would literally need to take a few hours to research and buy programs to do what steam does.
I'm glad at least someone from the consumer side is getting something from EGS.
Thank you for your kind words, but I don't understand. That post you quote it's not on the first page. Besides, these graphs are about prices, not quantities, so I don't know where are your basing your reasoning on.
So why do you think they say they are glad with having an exclusive at the EGS, and they would have more exclusives with them in the future? If it's not good performance on the store, what is it then?
My comment was directed at the part of your post that says humble store had similar prices between games that were EGS exclusive and those that weren't. At least that is what I understood.
If I misunderstood you feel free to ignore the comment.
The comment i posted shows that EGS exclusivity keeps games prices constantly higher then the steam games.
Before you start making accusations, you really should stop and think if you really know what you are talking about. MS sold a titanfall bundle for 450 before kinectless xbox came out in summer 2014. Even before that bundle you could find it below msrp.
is that 450$ xbox one sku cheaper 50-100$ then PS4 laucnh sku (400$) like you said?
I fail to see it.
They offer a completely self contained, unified platform that is easy to use with a tv that is affordable with high quality software you cant get anywhere else. Perhaps you see no value in that, but plenty of people do.
Microsoft doesn't fit your description...
You also didn't give any benefit from picking a console from microsoft/sony VS steam.
Feel free to do so. You have this odd sense of what competition is. Just because firm A is offering a product with a feature set you like and firm B offers a similar product with a lesser feature set it does not mean they are not competing.
I already explained 3 times.
How come you don't read it?
I have added you to the ignore list as you don't answer any of my questions.
