When valve would do it, it would be anti-consumer, but when a spunky multi-billion dollar, funded by chinese conglomerate upstart does it, its okay?
And this is your idea of 'competition'?
So are you upset that a Chinese conglomerate is funding Epic now?
And yes competition is healthy when the consumer gets to decide where the market moves but not when consumer choices are pinned down, and in this case, once again, as a consumers we are very much in control of the fate of the Epic Game Store
This.
Also he keeps ignoring the fact that these exclusivity deals mean that consumer have to pay more because of the loss of cheaper keys in competing 3rd party keystores.
You do know that some of these 3rd party key stores get their keys illegally right? Especially the popular ones. You know who I am talking about. There's a reason product prices do not deviate much unless the third party seller bought their stock wholesale or with not so legal methods.
In case I'm taking out of context, this does not include sales by authorized resellers.
It's not my job to educate you on the points you've already seen in other topics. Also, there's a neat little feature you can use to see my gender on this very forum, which would be quite useful for you to use and stop awkwardly using 'dude/dudette' over and over again when addressing me!
First, I'm sorry dudette....in the wake of my keyboard warrior-ing I forgot I can check profiles. Which I don't do by the way cause I don't like to play the dirty laundry card.
I would reread posts and do some Googlin' but right now there's too much to sieve through seriously.
It doesn't have anything to do with visibility. Epic just paid them a huge sum of money upfront.
But you're right, it was the devs choice as well. I really hope it backfires to them, because I don't want moneyhatting 3rd party devs for store exclusivity to become the new standard for PC gaming. We don't want other storefront owners doing this as well.
Wow, you can see reason! See if you don't like it then don't support it. Consumers still have a choice here so vote with your wallet.
Listen guys and gals, it's been great being able to discuss and argue about this because if there were no debates about issues like these then we as consumers lose completely. We may not see eye to eye but I can agree to disagree and I hope you can too. For me, it's a wait and see but from what I read in the well written and thought out OP, I don't see Epic competing with Steam mano a mano. Securing exclusives is just a way to get content so that that TenCent money don't go down the drain, Epic knows not to mess with the PC master race.
Regional pricing sucks but I've had to deal with regional pricing my whole life so I know how to prioritize my budgets, and believe me most of us Asians are stingy with our money so we make em count, but I want my favorite indie devs to keep on making the games I love so for me it's money well spent.
I'm a consumer and I vote with my wallet and no debate is a bad debate unless you shitting on someone personally. I'm gonna be done with EGS store topics for a while now. Oh and if you are upset cause you can't get your cheap game keys cause "reasons" then I'm not pandering to you and go screw someone else's bread and butter.