All right, I do not have a horse in this "fight", but it somewhat bothers few things, which I am open to get critique from that, since....well I own the PC business company, we did not make games (mainly because I feel too stupid to make anything worth your time), but I game on consoles. If mods felt like it's redundant topic, feel free to deleted it.
I don't like personally recent events of Epic games store, but also I am not so optimistic, that it stop there. Why would it, capitalism, free market, etc.
I am sure that I am not alone with the notion, that PC is an open platform, that is the only platform which can preserve games from our childhood and still be playable today from whatever platform it comes and even though I do not support piracy, sometimes what can you do when game is way past the EOL. It's just the reality of things. And I am fairly sure that devs who worked on those games, want to be their game eternal, because their pour heart and soul to them. Not all, but most of them.
And in this digital world, we do things which is not even available to customers. Like if you think you have a disc you are fine forever, than not, I know two prominent Czech developers, one of who was my High School teacher and they basically told me the same thing, it's just a data, licence could be revoke anytime (if you are connected to the internet or if you are not, than games disc simply told you to connect after some date). So that's also does not do any good to gaming community.
PC was always a bastion of free, open gaming and no I don't meant piracy, just that it was a platform to keep old games alive and the number of growing launchers bothers me, buying 3rd party exclusives bothers me and I was very much prepared for that in console business, but I never expected it would come to PC. I admit, I just want to be on my PC pres few times a button a be in the game, but my choice should not influence open platforms. I still play Quake 3 Arena with bots when I need to switch off for minutes in my work, the thought that I no longer could have, kind of made me really sad.
So what do you thing think, it's Epic Store an utopic idea, or another storefront are going to follow the suit and fragmented open platform which PC is/was?
I don't like personally recent events of Epic games store, but also I am not so optimistic, that it stop there. Why would it, capitalism, free market, etc.
I am sure that I am not alone with the notion, that PC is an open platform, that is the only platform which can preserve games from our childhood and still be playable today from whatever platform it comes and even though I do not support piracy, sometimes what can you do when game is way past the EOL. It's just the reality of things. And I am fairly sure that devs who worked on those games, want to be their game eternal, because their pour heart and soul to them. Not all, but most of them.
And in this digital world, we do things which is not even available to customers. Like if you think you have a disc you are fine forever, than not, I know two prominent Czech developers, one of who was my High School teacher and they basically told me the same thing, it's just a data, licence could be revoke anytime (if you are connected to the internet or if you are not, than games disc simply told you to connect after some date). So that's also does not do any good to gaming community.
PC was always a bastion of free, open gaming and no I don't meant piracy, just that it was a platform to keep old games alive and the number of growing launchers bothers me, buying 3rd party exclusives bothers me and I was very much prepared for that in console business, but I never expected it would come to PC. I admit, I just want to be on my PC pres few times a button a be in the game, but my choice should not influence open platforms. I still play Quake 3 Arena with bots when I need to switch off for minutes in my work, the thought that I no longer could have, kind of made me really sad.
So what do you thing think, it's Epic Store an utopic idea, or another storefront are going to follow the suit and fragmented open platform which PC is/was?