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- Aug 22, 2018
Valve don’t force anybody to do anything. There are plenty of launchers available and to the best of my knowledge, Steam have never signed an exclusivity deal with any developers to force people onto their platforms. It’s true that a lot of their own games are only available on Steam, but I don’t see how that’s any different to Nintendo keeping Mario games on their own hardware or Microsoft keeping Halo on Xbox.You guys say epic is anti consumer. Fine, but so is steam as well. I find it horrendous from a console games Point of view that are companies out there like valve that force you to install their Service on your pc to play the games. The valve People are in total controll of my Content because I am always connected to their "eyes". This one of many reasons why I hate digital only stuff.
In the console space we are almost there yet too unfortnately, but still at least on the ps4 you can play your games offline, minus the Patches of Course. But it is still possible to some degree to play ofline. In next gen not anymore I am afraid
So in fact I can understand you guys. I distrust steam for the same reasons why you distrust Epic. Sort of.
Bu I would not call Services like steam, where you have absolutely no controll of your Content as consumer friendly.
Unless you consider the extra Features steam offfers as consumer friendly. I have other priorties. I want to play my games always, nontheless if my modem is working or not.
The reason that Steam is so popular is because it is by far the most complete launcher and offers the best user experience. People choose to play their games through Steam.
I keep seeing people throwing the word ‘monopoly’ around when clearly they have no idea what a monopoly is. A monopoly is when a company is in complete control of the sale of something and are forcing people to use their service because they have no other choice if they want or need that product. Kind of like Epic Games when it come to the sale of Shenmue 3 on PC.
As for the argument that Steam are driving prices up because they pay developers a little less to cover their significantly higher costs of hosting and supporting titles, do any of you really think that DS and YSNet are going to pass on the marginal savings they will make per sale to consumers?