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Will you still buy Sony PC games if they went exclusive to their own launcher?
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I get Steam is popular and good, but I'm surprised that people would skip on some great games because they're not on Steam.
I would play games on Pornhub Game Store if they were as good as God of War or Last of Us, and that was my only chance to play them.
I said it before, Era says they want console exclusives on PC, but what Era means is they want them on Steam. PC is not a platform here, it seems - Steam is.
I would play games on Pornhub Game Store if they were as good as God of War or Last of Us, and that was my only chance to play them.
I said it before, Era says they want console exclusives on PC, but what Era means is they want them on Steam. PC is not a platform here, it seems - Steam is.
Imagine a world where they have launcher but still launch their games on steam or epic or wherever the fuck. Just like how it should've always been done for everyone.
Regardless they're not making a launcher lets stop putting this bullshit into the world.
And no I would not, i'm done with other launchers, if you want my money meet me where I play.
Regardless they're not making a launcher lets stop putting this bullshit into the world.
And no I would not, i'm done with other launchers, if you want my money meet me where I play.
Of course. I play games through Game pass so it probably can't be worse than that. In all honestly I admit that I haven't had issues in quite some time.
As long as prices & features are good then I don't care about a publisher having their own store. I always find it weird how fixated people are on Steam and I think "No Steam no buy" is a ridiculous opinion.
As long as prices & features are good then I don't care about a publisher having their own store. I always find it weird how fixated people are on Steam and I think "No Steam no buy" is a ridiculous opinion.
I said yes but as a Steam Deck owner the real answer is no because Sony launcher probably wouldn't work. But if it did then sure. I have no loyalty to any launcher.
I probably won't even realize they release unless they are on steam lol
I don't care to have to use different launchers normally but I'm literally not opening any other launchers but Steam 99.9% of the time so I don't even know when shit releases on other stores
I don't care to have to use different launchers normally but I'm literally not opening any other launchers but Steam 99.9% of the time so I don't even know when shit releases on other stores
Nope, I don't want anything ecosystem related from Sony on PC. I would be missing Valve's excellent feature set and have no hope Sony will ever get close to getting those on PC. I use stuff like big picture, my friend list, controller remapping functions, Steam Deck etc. all the time.
I'd also worry about the launcher closing down, if/when it fails, taking any games with it.
I'd also worry about the launcher closing down, if/when it fails, taking any games with it.
Sure as long as the launcher is functional. I would prefer them on Steam of course, but I'm not going to miss out on a game I'm excited about just because they are exclusive to another platform.
This is always my fear with these things. I have games I've bought on services that is a pain in the ass to access now. Yet I can re-download my copy of Half-Life 1 from 1999 that I was able to activate onto my steam account over 15 years ago. It even still gets patches!
Complete opposite of inevitable. Publishers are actively coming back and having great success on steam.
Considering the clients and stores they put out i wouldn't trust sony to make a halfway decent store on PC anyway.
yes people want games on the best platform possible with the most features that benefit them. shocker i know
if sony wants to put it on other stuff so the ten people that prefer
some people get a high off of kicking a hornets nest even if they dont think they do
This. Even though MS has their own store and they also release on Steam, there are specific perks that make it valuable to purchase games from the MS Store.
Sony will need to do the same thing if they want to create a PC launcher.
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I don't need to suck on Gabe's teet to play PC games. They work anywhere, I'll play 'em anywhere.
Nope. If it's not on Steam, I will not buy them.
Happy that Sony chose to do the right thing from the start and put their games on Steam.
Happy that Sony chose to do the right thing from the start and put their games on Steam.
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I should have known, some of these posts come off legit fucking angry I posed the question lmao
Sony's strategy for decades in the console space has always been about making high quality software on their platform to attract people to their console platform.
I struggle to envision a scenario where Sony would be happy in the medium to long term selling their high quality software on someone else's platform and losing 30% of the revrevenue.
Selling on Steam now is to me a short term move until they can build their own launcher.
I've said this to friends MANY times. I wish us console gamers had it this bad....that the deciding factor to buy a game we LOVE.....is if it is in the launcher we prefer. Us console people have to possibly spend $1000 for 2 consoles to play the exclusive game we love.
Ain't no one gonna tell me other wise, shits funny lol
Ain't no one gonna tell me other wise, shits funny lol
Because the math is probably very simple: the loss of sales by launching games is so great that it's better to just give Valve that 30% on Steam and sell more copies. It's more profitable to sell 1 million copies on Steam at $60 with Valve taking $18mil and thus Sony taking home $42mil than it's to sell 500k copies on your own launcher which only makes $30mil. Not to mention that running your own launcher costs a lot of time and money too.
There's a reason a lot of publishers which launched their own launchers and made their games exclusive to that launcher decided to return to Steam a few years. EA returned, Activision is seemingly returning and if Sony ever made their PC games exclusive to their own launcher I'm sure they'd return a few years later as well.
I want it on Steam but I wouldn't let it hold me back from playing a good game. There's a big difference between preferring Steam and "if it isn't on Steam I won't play it". The latter just reminds me of fanatical platform warriors that you also find in the console wars discourse.
This thread is unnecessary given the fact that we know Sony isn't going to do it. You don't need to create a thread solely for the purpose of conducting a purity test on Era's PC users.
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