TheDiceMustRoll
Game Analist
- Joined
- Apr 18, 2016
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Please explain to me, in clear terms, how Steam is not a "market leader" and is in fact, a "monopoly".
Nowadays we might have alternative stores slowly emerging, but e.g. Origin was released 10 years after Steam! And while there might have been other stores like Direct2Drive around at the time, guess what, if you wanted to play MP hit Counter-Strike or SP hit Half-Life 2 you had no choice as these were exclusive on Steam! It's pretty much the same thing Epic is doing now, using the player base of Fortnite as the start...
No, that's wrong. Half-Life 2 was literally funded and produced by Valve. Valve purchased CS and then spent money + time fixing and refining it.
I have literally no problem with a company making games and putting them exclusively on their platform, which is not what epic is doing.
Epic games is literally going to games that have reasonable hype, dropping a bucket of money on their desks, and buying exclusivity for year. If Epic had funded TOW, if Epic had funded Phoenix Point, etc, I wouldn't care.
See, I wish Nintendo would put their games on PC. But they won't and that's fine, and to facilitate sales of their shitty hardware, they make quality software. If Epic Games was churning out top-tier, 10/10 titles exclusive to their store, fine. Buying temporary exclusivity is not that.