I'm no expert on the industry but why did we all blindly accept the fact that game devs are barely scraping by and are being crushed by Steam's cut (which is industry standard)? Literally the first thing I found on google says "Video game revenue in 2018 reached a new peak of $43.8 billion, up 18 percent from the previous years, surpassing the projected total global box office for the film industry"
Also, these companies aren't charities who would continue making games for people out of the goodness of their heart if there was no money in it. If they aren't making money in the current system, the price of games would change. Simple as that. Anyone who can't manage it has a bad business or bad product. I refuse to feel sad for them.
I also think a lot of people are being dishonest when they claim Epic is just another free launcher so only whiny people care about this. Epic gives a vastly degraded user experience compared to Steam. It has no reviews, no discussion pages for games, no guides, the store is difficult to use, etc, etc. The list of basic features that Epic is missing is easy to find. And no, it isn't fair to say 'Steam started with less features too so give Epic a chance to catch up' because we're in 2019 now, not 2003. No online store in the modern day should launch without a shopping cart and act like that's okay.
I wouldn't mind if Epic competed with Steam purely on price. Take less of a cut from every sale and suggest the devs pass half of that back to the consumer, that would be great. Then people could decide if saving a few bucks was worth losing out on those features I mentioned. By snatching exclusives, though, Epic is forcing people to put up with their s***ty store. To compare these to real world shops, it's like a store opening up in the bad part of town where all the employees are unhelpful jerks and there's a weird smell. Sure, it's just another store and it's no different driving to that store than any other store, but no one would shop there unless they're literally forced to, which is what Epic does when they spend big money on exclusives instead of spending a little bit of money improving their lousy store.
That's why I support Steam and not Epic. And I'm not some rabid Steam fanboy, I was furious at Valve when it looked like they were going to ban the smutty visual novels I like. Unlike Epic, Steam actually cares about what its users think and they wisely backed down from that.
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