remember_spinal
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I’m gonna be bold here and say that the only scenario when people are genuinely okay with exclusivity is when they aren’t personally affected by it. Every other scenario people will complain and say it sucks, rightfully so.
And for the IP growth and sales figures it’s always bad. Minecraft exclusive to Xbox would not be a great move, neither would Destiny exclusive to Playstation or Elden Ring exclusive to PC.
For platform warriors exclusives are awesome though. And a lost exclusive is like a lost bullet for their gun. All they have left when exclusives go multiplat is a possible DF Face-Off win. If they lose then the IP was never good anyway.
No one is personally affected by it, you buy the console or platform that gets the games you like on it, even if it means missing one or two games you really want, its not the end of the world. We live in a weird time where everyone thinks they’re entitled to play every game now, especially on day 1 for a low price. Thats never been how gaming has worked.
Because of exclusives platform holders are forced to invest big money into games and try and push for them to be way bigger than 3rd party games because they are meant to sell consoles not games. Without exclusives there’d be far less investment in AAA gaming
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