Pika-Cthulhu
Arcane
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- Apr 16, 2007
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Competition is great, exclusivity is the opposite of competition. I can understand Epic offering rewards for develops to sign on to a deal getting some payola for the lost sales incurred from not launching on all platforms (are they just fucking out Steam or itch.io, gog and Discord too, the one with more generous percentages for devs?) to help build some market share. The only 'competitive' advantage they have is cash to bribe developers to exclusive deals. Offer fewer service, fewer titles, less transparency, little customer service and appear to be appealing to the appalling attitude that developers have cultivated amongst themselves and their crony presstitutes that customers should shut up about bugs and broken games and keep buying the shit being shoveled out, this 'toxic' culture of uneducated unsophisticated unenlightened criticism from the masses is not officially sanctioned by the clergy who crib from the PR clowns.
Want more competition? Support gog, itch.io, humble bundle, Discord (unsure on their practices, rarely use, T&C is like Google Light WE HARVEST YOUR DATA NOM NOM) or any other third party that offers actual competition to steam and NOT exclusivity deals that hampers competition. Competition grows markets and creativity, exclusivity retards growth and inures a false sense of success. Epics play is anti consumer, Steam at least feigns to support consumers, Epic is straight out slapping their cock in your face and telling you to bend over you little cuck bitch.
Want more competition? Support gog, itch.io, humble bundle, Discord (unsure on their practices, rarely use, T&C is like Google Light WE HARVEST YOUR DATA NOM NOM) or any other third party that offers actual competition to steam and NOT exclusivity deals that hampers competition. Competition grows markets and creativity, exclusivity retards growth and inures a false sense of success. Epics play is anti consumer, Steam at least feigns to support consumers, Epic is straight out slapping their cock in your face and telling you to bend over you little cuck bitch.