Paul_CZ is correct on all 3 of those things, all a person can do is weigh those up and decide whether they are fine with those things or not. For me, those 3 things dont outweigh the chance to play Borderlands 3 with my mates at release, so I will be buying Borderlands 3 on day one rather than waiting, but each individual needs to make that decision for each title and see which, if any, are titles that outweigh the issues with Epic for them too.
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I still don’t see the issue. I log in, I play the game I log out. The only service I have running in the background is my steam launcher.
Yeah can’t link my game to use the overlay but don’t need to.
As it stands there is nothing I want to buy from there yet but Just like my Uplay launcher, My Origin launcher my Rockstar launcher, my Elite dangerous launcher, they are all not running when I am not using them. Start up = disable. Just like every other crappy service I don’t have running when I am not using it.
Exclusive titles? How is that any different from them being on steam with no competition or not on steam at all?.*cough* Origin, *Cough* Uplay
As for cheap Keys, yes that is a bummer but we have not seen how that has yet to play out.
Besides.. this could all be mute is steam takes up the challenges set down by Tim Sweeny by Match their percentage and they would end exclusivity. We could even have fortnight on steam.. lol
But what if Gabe chooses not to move and reduce steams cut to match that of Epic, how will people react to that?
Epic said they would shake things up and they are..
Yeah can’t link my game to use the overlay but don’t need to.
As it stands there is nothing I want to buy from there yet but Just like my Uplay launcher, My Origin launcher my Rockstar launcher, my Elite dangerous launcher, they are all not running when I am not using them. Start up = disable. Just like every other crappy service I don’t have running when I am not using it.
Exclusive titles? How is that any different from them being on steam with no competition or not on steam at all?.*cough* Origin, *Cough* Uplay
As for cheap Keys, yes that is a bummer but we have not seen how that has yet to play out.
Besides.. this could all be mute is steam takes up the challenges set down by Tim Sweeny by Match their percentage and they would end exclusivity. We could even have fortnight on steam.. lol
But what if Gabe chooses not to move and reduce steams cut to match that of Epic, how will people react to that?
Epic said they would shake things up and they are..
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UPlay and Origin are first party stores though, they don't buy in games from other devs/publishers to sell. They are big enough to want to make 100% of every game they sell.
Epic are going about it the wrong way, people don't like to be forced unnecessarily into having to use yet another launcher/service (most people don't actually like UPlay/Origin), but Epic could do better by actually offering cheaper prices to customers without this exclusivity nonsense.
If a game was £50 on Steam, but £40-£45 on Epic then people may actually be drawn to using it without being strong-armed into doing so.
Epic know full well that Steam won't accept their challenge, pointless them even asking it. Just an excuse to say "look we tried lol".
They may succeed anyway as a lot of the Fortnite generation probably haven't been using Steam for years and years, so they'll be happy buying stuff on Epic without even thinking about it.
Epic are going about it the wrong way, people don't like to be forced unnecessarily into having to use yet another launcher/service (most people don't actually like UPlay/Origin), but Epic could do better by actually offering cheaper prices to customers without this exclusivity nonsense.
If a game was £50 on Steam, but £40-£45 on Epic then people may actually be drawn to using it without being strong-armed into doing so.
Epic know full well that Steam won't accept their challenge, pointless them even asking it. Just an excuse to say "look we tried lol".
They may succeed anyway as a lot of the Fortnite generation probably haven't been using Steam for years and years, so they'll be happy buying stuff on Epic without even thinking about it.
The most outrageous act of Epic is paying the publishers to pull their games off Steam or other platforms which has been on sell for some time. This made a lot of players hate Epic from the beginning.
Since they started off in such a way, people would hate all the exclusivity followings.
Before EGS, we can choose to buy from Origin, GOG, Uplay, Steam, blizzard launcher, rock* social clubs, MS Stores etc, all exclusivity games only existed on their own in-house studio respectively. Personally I bought and rather buy my Ubisoft's games on Steam even the price is higher than in Uplay, but now I cannot do it anymore cause Epic paid UBI. I preordered The Crew 2 Gold Edition on Steam till now I still haven't play for a minute. I am never a fan of Anno series but because I despise Epic's practices therefore I bought it on Steam before it was pulled off permanently. I just dont like buying the game directly from uplay, I would rather launch steam then launch uplay within.
Since they started off in such a way, people would hate all the exclusivity followings.
Before EGS, we can choose to buy from Origin, GOG, Uplay, Steam, blizzard launcher, rock* social clubs, MS Stores etc, all exclusivity games only existed on their own in-house studio respectively. Personally I bought and rather buy my Ubisoft's games on Steam even the price is higher than in Uplay, but now I cannot do it anymore cause Epic paid UBI. I preordered The Crew 2 Gold Edition on Steam till now I still haven't play for a minute. I am never a fan of Anno series but because I despise Epic's practices therefore I bought it on Steam before it was pulled off permanently. I just dont like buying the game directly from uplay, I would rather launch steam then launch uplay within.