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Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2
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No.
Don't force me to install a garbage dump that runs like shit and isn't even close to feature complete to play a game.
Or do and I won't pay, either way works lol.
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What a surprise, an epic defender that thinks that monopoly means store do good. There are plenty of competition against steams store, they just don't get market share because they're not feature complete or they just suck.
Or both in epic's case.
That's like saying that Walmart doesn't have a monopoly in your little town because there's this one other store that stays open even though most clients don't go anymore.
Hell, the first sign that a monopoly exist is that independents that said they wouldn't deal with the company with the monopoly start to do it because they realise that their sales aren't up to par because customers won't buy from them unless their product is available in the bigger store.
https://www.polygon.com/23799285/blizzard-pc-games-steam-overwatch-2-release-date
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/21/23471589/ubisoft-return-steam-2022-assassins-creed-valhalla
It's not that people didn't want to play their games (otherwise they wouldn't sell on Steam either), it's that people didn't want to play them unless they were available on a specific launcher and that means Steam is in a monopolistic position.
Lol, your two examples are from companies that have their own shitty launchers that customers hated using because they aren't very good. That's a service issue entirely on them, steams MoNoPoLy is a lazy excuse to paper over that glaring fact.
Again, store do good isn't a monopoly. Steam isn't a monopoly just because every other competitor doesn't know what customers want or don't care because it's expensive. And you're kinda proving my point. There are tons of competing stores out there to use, but people don't use them nearly as much because they suck or they're not feature complete. Both Blizzard and Ubisoft have their own competing stores, but neither can get market share because they refuse to offer features that customers want. Epic has the same problem.
Steam's MoNoPolY is 100% a lack of services and features from the competition, and that's what keeps people coming back to the environment. This isn't Walmart undercutting sales to drive competitors out of the market, this is smaller hobby stores mad they can't slap their customers and be entitled to the business the big player has.
What features? I have seen a lot of complaining about performance of the storefront here, which leads me to believe a lot of the complainers have not actually used EGS in actual years. I haven't seen anyone mention an actual specific feature of Steam that EGS is missing. Multiple running versions for beta testing, DLC linking with the main game page, sale frequency, everything except the social features of steam (which are notorious for being garbage communities) are on par in EGS these days, so this thread is confusing for me since you guys haven't actually explained a single missing feature.
I would give them remote play otherwise most other things are better off on Independent platforms or are just bloat (who the fuck cares about cards???)