Epic Vs Steam younger generation

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I know there are other launchers but it seems these are the biggest two...

I'm firmly in the Steam camp, but now getting on for almost 20 years after I signed up following the purchase of HL2, my son recently uttered the words, "Steam is rubbish. Epic has better games." He's 11 and seemingly easily influenced (Prime, Beats, Mr. Beast etc). It got me thinking though most of us started our Steam journey with HL2 and now Valve no longer makes (many) games are they going to start missing the youngsters whose first PC experience is likely to be something like Epic exclusive Fortnight?

 

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Taking the conversation off on a tangent here but its blooming frustrating watching your young ones take in the marketing and starting to ignore your advice, especially when your quite knowledgeable with tech

Recently he was in need of a new phone as his Pixel 3a was on its last legs. He was adamant he wanted an iPhone or Samsung, nothing else. I'd recommend getting something similar to my Poco F3 which is a fantastic bang-for-buck phone. Nope, he would prefer a cheaper slower Samsung, simply because it says Samsung on it. Really frustrating

Back on topic... Rust is on his Christmas list so thats a bit more Steam exposure but I do think Valve are being a little short sighted in slowing/stopping game development.

 

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I mean...have you tried it by any chance? Does it actually at least taste nice?

I think some are Red-bull esq (the ones in cans) and some are more like a Lucozade sport.

Verdict from the son is orange and lemon & lime are ok, the rest are rank.

 

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Built my son a PC last week and and he's wanting to play L4D2, he's 11 on the 27th and the game is older than him. It's only because he's seen me playing it.

He mainly plays Fortnite and likes his Prime, though he's not aloud the energy drink version.

I bought my son L4D2 when it was 85p in the recent sale. Mainly so we had something we could play together. He's given it a whirl and declared it as 'ok' We've only had a couple of goes and I had to leave him to be eaten in the stadium on our last go

 

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I just went through a campaign with him, a nice short blast of 45-60 mins.

Tbf I want to rage quit when i'm on Fortnight not knowing what the heck is happening.

 

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I'm at a kids birthday party at Arcade Club in Leeds (its fab - check it out). The kids have all levitated to the top floor to play Fortnite