belteshazzar
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1. Dealership analogy doesn't work because they are not making the cars. For instance, I understand that Fortnite is exclusive to Epic Store because they made the game.
2. "Compare to how Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, HBO, and others fund unique content to provide reasons to use their services". This comparison is stupid for the same reason. They didn't make the movies/TV shows. It would be like saying that ONLY Amazon can stream Harry Potter movies from now on, forcing everyone that wants to stream them to get an Amazon Prime membership. Additionally, this only works if people actually subscribe to all services because of exclusivity. Most people don't put up with this shit, and choose only one or two services, and as more and more services are created (like the upcoming Disney Streaming and Apple TV+ services), more people will become annoyed with BS super specific TV/Movie services.
3. Steam doesn't care that games they didn't make are in other storefronts (GOG, uPlay, etc).
Basically, I don't like that they are trying to force people to use their crappy store with this exclusivity crap. He says that gamers are benefiting from this in the end, but where are these benefits? The only ones seeing benefits from this are Epic and the game developers, and they are just passing a burden to the gamers. He should just stop pretending that he is doing some great favor to the gaming industry. Ironically, the only benefit that would come from this is if they force Steam's hand to stop their 30% BS and they get games back to their storefront. Then both devs and gamers would be benefited, lol.
2. "Compare to how Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, HBO, and others fund unique content to provide reasons to use their services". This comparison is stupid for the same reason. They didn't make the movies/TV shows. It would be like saying that ONLY Amazon can stream Harry Potter movies from now on, forcing everyone that wants to stream them to get an Amazon Prime membership. Additionally, this only works if people actually subscribe to all services because of exclusivity. Most people don't put up with this shit, and choose only one or two services, and as more and more services are created (like the upcoming Disney Streaming and Apple TV+ services), more people will become annoyed with BS super specific TV/Movie services.
3. Steam doesn't care that games they didn't make are in other storefronts (GOG, uPlay, etc).
Basically, I don't like that they are trying to force people to use their crappy store with this exclusivity crap. He says that gamers are benefiting from this in the end, but where are these benefits? The only ones seeing benefits from this are Epic and the game developers, and they are just passing a burden to the gamers. He should just stop pretending that he is doing some great favor to the gaming industry. Ironically, the only benefit that would come from this is if they force Steam's hand to stop their 30% BS and they get games back to their storefront. Then both devs and gamers would be benefited, lol.