Are you against consumer choice?

Valve made those games.
EGS grabs exclusivity for games they didn't make.

Valve published those games, so it's fine. Same with Origin having EA games. That's different to buying exclusivity.

Fucking this. The double standard is insane. I'm glad we have someone as brave as Tim to call the drones out on their hypocrisy.

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Valve doesn't have a monopoly, though. There were many stores before Epic.

i wish i could play halo on my ps4

Fine let’s ignore Valve published games. What about all thousands of indie games on steam only?

Did steam pay for exclusivity of those games?

you seem to be confusing first-party games with normal exclusives. i don't see fortnite on steam or any other digital platform. you likely also make the same mistake with exclusives by happenstance- games that are exclusive purely out of random fate, they weren't sought out to be only on one platform its just that only one platform happens to have it. theres plenty of GOG exclusives just because no other platform bothered to put them in

I don't remember Valve signing any exclusivity deals with them. They're free to list on any other store.

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Get new material faggot.

Let's completely ignore exclusives for a second. Why would I support a platform that has no features to support its games, bans people for buying too many games at once because it can't figure out how to implement a shopping cart, and runs processes to spy on my steam library?

Why would intent matter? The fact is that this has been chosen by the developers, to only allow certain stores to sell them. Or maybe epic didnt want to sell them. Doesnt matter, this is normal for any store. The stock you sell isn’t necessarily available everywhere and thats fine. Same with EGS exclusives and steam exclusives

>intent doesnt matter
K

>Why would intent matter?
Because the criticism against EGS exclusivity is specifically directed towards their tendency to pay to have games they didn't develop or publish be exclusive to the EGS store.

And that makes no sense when exclusives have been around way before epic games store which was fine. Again, why would intent matter when the end result is the same for consumerd? There are some games you can only pick up on egs and some you can only pick up on steam

I'm not, but Tim is. Exclusivity deals that limit products to a single store are exactly the antithesis of consumer choice.

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you're fumbling so hard to get a resignation that you've completely lost an actual point.
the argument is over epic bitching about exclusives while paying for games they didn't have a hand in making. valve doesn't do that. valve might get some random indies purely because their awful low standards are the only ones that will allow it but they're not actively seeking out games to pay for a month's worth of exclusivity
like bayonetta 3 is switch exclusive, because nintendo is the only people funding the game's existence. that is fair. if the next crash bandicoot game is developed completely independently from nintendo in every way shape and form, but last-second nintendo pays them to put it only on the switch, well thats absolute scumfuckery to hoard a game that they had no hand in making. alternatively if a new bubsy game comes out, and literally every platform but nintendo tells them they can't put that game on their store, then thats also fine since everyone else had a opportunity but all of them but nintendo turned them down

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Again, because the criticism against EGS exclusivity is specifically directed towards their tendency to pay to have games they didn't develop or publish be exclusive to the EGS store. The mere existence of exclusives isn't the subject of debate here. A developer only being approached by a single platform to host their game isn't the subject of debate here.

Because the fact that Epic specifically chooses to restrict the availability of games they did not make means that they are willing to, essentially, blackmail consumers into using their storefront.

Valve hasn't struck a paid exclusivity deal since 2006.

keep in mind none of this nonsense would actually matter if epic wasn't complaining about steam being the game hoarders. this entire argument hinges on epic being the instigators

If youre so fucking stupid that you unironically dont understand that intentions dictate future actions you are hopeless.

But I know youre just some post election redditor.

Kys.

>Valve hasn't struck a paid exclusivity deal since 2006.
What game was that?

I wont be tagging anyone but i dont understand how you can be butthurt some games are exclusive to a store, as a consumer, when you’ve been fucked in the ass by this already for decades. Not just PC now but even consoles
>but they make those games exist
So? Why would a consumer care about that? The consumer just wants the product from their store, and egs having a couple of exclusives compared to hundreds in switch, xbox, ps, steam etc is just laughable and looking for an argument

>discussion starts off about consuner choice
>people point out epic paid to remove consumer choice
>hurr durr but the outcome is the same
>even though we literally have less options now
Youre just baiting though. Please consider death.

>I wont be tagging anyone
Pussy.
We all explained it to you already. If you don't like the explanation, that's your problem.