You're telling me people wouldn't be upset over EGS if it had feature parity with Steam and was available in as many regions with as many payment options?
I don't believe that. People here are primarily railing against buying exclusivity.
I would be just as put off with the aggressive and relatively irresponsible tactics. but I would be delighted that there was another platform is capable as steam.
I think you'll find that people are disturbed by this for a number of different reasons in different combinations.
Myself, for example. I don't happen to think epic poses any serious threat to PC gaming. I don't think they pose any serious threat to steam. So that's two points that I could be upset about that I'm not.
I'm not upset about the idea of exclusives in and of itself. I enjoy consoles after all, and I accept that as part of the landscape for as long as I can remember. So no problem there. I am fairly annoyed that they chose this lazy route, but hey.
So moving on to things that I do find a obnoxious, we have the lack of steam's powerful features that makes the epic store version an inferior game. And the price fixing that is a symptom of the exclusive deals. Oh and I'm a little annoyed that I can't play the game at all thanks to no Linux support. You can see how I would be a little annoyed at that.
But of course there has to be something that I really care about in all this. Or else, I wouldn't be frequenting these threads so much.
I'm pissed off that this time last year we had a PC landscape that was for the most part cooperative with storefronts and platforms coexisting somewhat peacefully. Now here we are in 2019 the year of our Lord, and we have this bull in a china shop show up and openly declare war on valve.
The valve that has been non-aggressive since their inception despite having every chance to strong-arm or hamstring competitors.
And they're going to do it by making steam users as uncomfortable as possible while adding nothing of value. That makes me pretty mad.
There's something that makes me madder though. It's the waves of marketing... or 'messaging', if you know what I mean... That we are dealing with on a daily basis. Republican-grade talking points have been boosted constantly for months now. Random personalities throw out red meat to get clicks on twitter.
Yes that makes me very mad. Look at the damage it's done here. Look at the longtime members here that have been either banned or driven away because they've been exhausted by this onslaught of misinformed comments day in and day out. This is the thing I'm most mad about. This is the thing that really affects me. I fucking miss those people.
So there you go. As you can see, theres many things to be upset about, but I am only upset about some and to different degrees. That's my profile as an epic detractor. We're not all the same. Far from it.