gfwl was anticonsumer bullshit. people didnt buy into microsofts bullshit and it died.
GFWL died because it was bad software stack that was detrimental to ease of use of game and it had nothing to do with "anti-consumer" practices. Also it didn't die because people didn't like it. It died because MS stopped giving fuck about it pretty much from the moment when they released it on PC and its DRM feature became useless very quickly. MS also didn't pay anyone for using their software stack. IT was DRM for games and developers on their chose to include it in order to defend against piracy.
This situation literally has nothing to do with Epic shop or is even remotely in same basket.
i dont give a fuck where shenmue is released. i came here because of the info and then read an abyssimal analogy, that didnt really work.
White is black, sky is green and red car is actually yellow.
Just because you say something it doesn't make it true.
Logic is sound and it was good argument for which you don't really have any answer.
Because you can't since logic was good.
you dont need steam to enjoy a game, but it adds value. (the amount is different from person to person)
Since you don't need steam to enjoy game then what is the fuzz here ?
I can easily understand someone saying that he just want to play with his friends this game and all of them are on steam, at least such argument is debatable.
and egs makes perfect sense for shenmue, ue4 and all. i can still be pissy about the way epic is goin on with moneyhats.
You do realize that this is developer choice not Epic to make ? Epic like any proper business fight for their shop to excel proposing deals to developers in order to promote their shop. For those developers getting 12 cut instead of 30% might be difference between shutting down and making sequel to their game or even enhancing their game to make it better.
This is part of what is called competition. I really want multiple stores fighting for devs all around because that will benefit both consumers and developers in long run. Capitalism 101.
dont you understand that egs is not killing steam, but all the other shops who sell keys?
If shop sells keys to other shop then it is not a shop to begin with, their existence relies only on Steam not closing loopholes which eventually will be shut down. There is plenty of talk in industry about key validation system which would quickly kill those kind of shops because developers are not happy when some media markt shop just sells their keys for 1$ because higherups want to order new keys for different game. Secondly from what i understand EGS plans to run their own gift system very soon which means those shops will run like they used to.
Velve already is in violation of EU law as they do not give ability to sell your digital games and there was some court talk like 2 years ago but so far nothing conclusive and will be probably resolved in next few years.