Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent

• jonesy@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Apparently they’re not making enough profit on Epic to avoid taking a loan from Tencent.

  Personally, I object to Epic using purchased exclusivity as a tool to gain market share, and refuse to capitulate to approach approach when there’s so many other games to play. If they truly.want to compete with Steam then actually make their marketplace competitive with more social and community features that Steam offers.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They’re not making enough profit on Epic because people prefer feeding Steam’s monopoly and would rather wait for the game to come to that platform than purchase it on a platform where the devs would get a bigger share of the sale. It’s not that they don’t make enough profit per copy on Epic, it’s that the number of customers isn’t high enough to compensate.

    The social stuff is bloat, you need the platform to purchase and launch your games, that’s it, they already have all essentials like being able to automatically join friends in multiplayer games, why do they need crap like cards or forums (which are better as a third party administered by people who don’t have a financial incentive to hide complaints).

    No matter how much they make their platform similar to Steam, you’ll find another reason not to buy on it, people are still complaining about shit they fixed years ago like not having a cart or achievements.

    It’s very funny to see people on Lemmy (of all places) pushing for centralization.

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    • GbyBE@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The social stuff may be bloat to you, but it helps me to see which friends are online, and let’s me join their games or invite them to mine.

      There’s nothing that epic adds that I care about and I refuse to buy their exclusives, because that encourages them even more to keep doing that.

      Steam may not be perfect, but it’s pretty damn good. I have enough with GOG and Steam, and don’t want to add multiple storefronts to the list of launchers on my PC.

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      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        So the thing that you want is something that is available on Epic.

        Yay monopoly!

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• GbyBE@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If they offer it on steam and then sell Steam keys on their own website, that should get them the most from each sale…

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But… gameworldobserver.com/…/valve-steam-keys-guidelin…

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    • GbyBE@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t have an issue with the soft limit on the number of keys, if the limitations aren’t too strict. The way it’s described makes it sound like it’s just to prevent abuse.

      I didn’t even have a problem with the price parity, since that’s limited to the sale of said Steam keys on other store platforms, which makes sense. The developer can still hand out keys for free, just not sell them cheaper anywhere else. I would however find it problematic if they also required price parity for sales of non Steam key copies on other stores.

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• chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m never giving the company that made billions exploiting the FOMO of children my money. I won’t install the launcher. I don’t didn’t need their free games.

  I don’t didn’t care if they can throw their massive pile of Fortnite cash around to give developers more money.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So you’re not giving Valve money either, right? Want some hats?

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    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Valve have done scummy things, too. But I’m not going to pretend that somehow they’re both equally bad.

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      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh so you’re just another one of the people for whom if it’s Valve don’t it then it’s ok, funny how your principles go out the window for this one company.

        Gabe aa multi billionaire buddy, Valve also made billions exploiting people’s weaknesses, the only difference is that it ends up in one guy’s pockets instead of shareholders.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m not supporting a company just for charity. Companies aren’t people.

  1. They make something I want
  2. I buy it

  An epic release isn’t what I want.

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• itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I play on Linux. Steam offers amazing support for windows games, Epic goes out of their way to make Linux gaming harder. That means it’s a hard no for me. Steam or DRM-free so I can tinker with it myself.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Heroic

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