If other developers are not willing to put games on other stores (Epic included) or if the stores are not willing to put those games on their store (GOG, for example) then Steam isn't the guilty party or a target to point your rage at.
Irrelevant, retard. Since you say you care so much about consumers, then you should care that consumers are locked into one client only. It does not fucking matter who decided to do that. The result is exactly the same.
On the contrary, you should be grateful that you can play the game at all thanks to them
totally not a steamtard.
Yeah, I should be grateful that for most developers using other stores is simply not worth it since they'd hardly get any sales, as most people use steam anyway.
So fucking grateful.
Even if Valve was forcing others to use Steam (which you failed to prove)
I didn't claim they do, retard and I never tried to prove it. I said "as far as we know". I'm sure the reason is what I said above: not worth it for the developers to release on another platforms.
So any platform that could eventually give more options to the consumers would be a good thing. Yes, if at some point it would be worth it for developers to release on multiple platforms that would actually be a good thing.
But I'm sure steamtards can't comprehend that because hurrr muh steam and muh friends on steam and muh trading cards.
First that is not competition, but the opposite- monopoly- you can get the game only from one place. Second Steam doesn't stop devs and publisher from selling elsewhere, this is decision PUBLISHERS/DEVS make not steam.
What's the difference? You can still get it from one place only. That's still exclusivity. That's still monopoly. Whoever is behind it DOES NOT FUCKING MATTER, the user is still forced to buy from one store only.
Third there was/is complains all the time if games are released only on steam, just open any GOG thread on any forum to see people demand game be sold there. Also when steam was new and some publishers were deciding to lock their games to Steam exclusively people were complaining a lot, so you are lying or have no clue what you're talking about.
Oh, really, show me where any of the steamtards in this thread ever complained for a game being exclusively released on Steam? Most of the complaining is when a game is not released on Steam.
So why do they buy those games if their interests are so noble and they only care about the users and don't want to support exclusives?
No, what they are crying about is exclusives that are not on their favorite platform. Essentially, it's fine to be on other platforms as long as it's on Steam too. If it's only on Steam that's also fine. But no way should it be only on another platform!
Talk about mafia tactics. That's pretty much it except the steamtards do the work for Valve. When you have such retarded sheeple as fanboys you don't even need to do any dirty work.