No offense but if fortnite is exclusive to Unreal, quite a bunch of people out there already have the launcher.
People would love for competition to exist.
Why is it so funny that I care more about the bottom line of those that make the games I like so they can make more of them than I care about the bottom line of those that just sells them?
How the fuck do they manage to buy so much shit on fortnite then?
If your primary concern is over supporting developers then yes, you can buy on itch.io.
Right, the first step to convince me that you are actually trying to compete in a way that benefits me as a customer is not paying to reduce my options.
"Competition" achieved by buying exclusivity doesn't foster consumer choice in any way, shape or form.
In their defense, their subscription service isn't the worst thing in the world, and they had support for multiple game library directories before Steam did.
This is logically incorrect. This isn't a new universe they're creating here. They're implicitly competing for the consumers dollars especially in an comparitively open marketplace. A new marketplace that doesn't offer anything meaningful can damage sales of said product. I'm pretty sure yourself is evidence of this. Competition means the people involved can compete well or poorly.
Then they can just allow people to buy game using VBucks, thus spurring people to splurge even more on VBucks.
Why does Epic need to offer you comparable service for a far lower fee? With everything else in life, if you want more you probably pay more, and if you pay less you probably get less.
They should try actually competing first. Glad devs can go to numerous places (including using Steam still by selling keys on their own site) and make more money, but this shit ain't helping the consumers much.
That's up to each consumer. I don't mean that to sound dismissive, I'm just saying that's how a free market is supposed to work. The customers will be there, or they won't. Makes no difference to me, and I have zero interest in Fortnite. If they're successful and if more devs demand a fairer rate from Valve, and Valve ends up cutting their rate, more profits for the people actually making the games is a good thing for gamers. It's surely better than devs going under while the storefronts for those games get rich.
They litterally just came into effect so I have no idea how your determining that. Your not going to see an instant drop of all prices but some Devs can gain the same revenue from lower prices in sales. Beneficial in hitting impulse buy prices.
Posts like these seem so disingenuous and fake. You don't like or use Steam, but randomly Epic puts out a launcher and you're ready to use it instantly! It's pretty odd behavior, or maybe that's just me.
