Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoWhat did they do to the gaming community? Make you not use just one platform, giving that platform a de-facto monopoly?
Buying exclusives on a pretty obvious inferior launcher because they couldn’t compete with steam so they had to gather some users with exclusivity
This is a starting point. They can’t compete with GOG or Steam, they’re even worse that EA play or whatever is called right now
We would have never gotten the likes of Alan wake 2 if not for epics money though, which also paved the way for remedy to become more independent for future releases. I’d rather have an exclusive then nothing at all.
It’s also arguable whether or not square would’ve ported kingdom hearts to pc if not for epic paying for it as well. Which in turn allowed them to put it on steam later because the game had already been made to work for pc.
Other than how they’ve handled rocket league and harmonix, epic have done nothing but good for the pc space in my opinion. Even if a launcher is shitty, a launcher is just a launcher and at least their store runs better than gog or steams.
We would have never gotten the likes of Alan wake 2 if not for epics money though
And it was a total flop lmao
Other than how they’ve handled rocket league and harmonix
U sure bud?
Even if a launcher is shitty, a launcher is just a launcher and at least their store runs better than gog or steams
Gimme some examples and I’ll share something with ya
Alan wake 2 had massive critical acclaim what you on about and they’re now in a financial situation to publish they’re own games because of it.
And their store definitely runs better than steam and gog. Gog is the worst hanging most of the time with it often losing its penis place when going back to the previous page, and the latter is often the same on steam. Even big picture mode struggles with the steam store some times.
Katana314@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I don’t know if this is the priority for many other users, but Epic Games is 40% owned by Tencent, a Chinese corporation. That in itself is an inappropriate level of CCP influence to me - sadly, Chinese companies don’t really get to divest themselves of government influence the way American corps do.
(That said, with Google changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name, I feel less sure of that last claim)
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
That’s understandable, i wouldn’t knock anyone from boycotting for tencent reasons