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Comment on Fallout 3: GOTY Edition is free to keep for the next 24 hours on the Epic Games Store

The end result is the same for the consumer.

It really isn’t.

In one case a publisher is choosing to publish where the customers are. If consumers don’t like that service they are free to publish somewhere else

In the other case a company is trying to force consumers to use their service, instead of providing a better service that they would want to use.

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Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Either way you install a client and play a game. Already have a few so it doesn’t really matter.

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Rose@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Steam was literally forced on those who owned a physical copy of Half-Life and wanted to play it. The dominant position has nothing to do with the service offered by Steam. It was dominant when it barely had any features. GOG competing with it on features and in fact offering the bonus of DRM-free games hasn’t improved its market share of about 0.5%.

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- CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No one is upset about having to use EGS for Fortnite. Their own games that they develop themselves they can do what they want with.
  
  The issue is when Epic approaches other developers, especially those that have already announced a Steam release, and try to get exclusivity out of them: medium.com/…/why-i-turned-down-exclusivity-deal-f…
  
  Epic: We would love to have you on our service
  Dev: I’m not interested in exclusivity
  Epic: then we have no interest in having you on our service
  
  Having more options for their customers makes their service better, but Epic isn’t interested in being a better service.
  
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  - Rose@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Dev: I’m not interested in exclusivity
    
    Epic: then we have no interest in having you on our service
    
    If anything, the example you brought up proves the opposite. Darq is on Epic and its developer even took money from Epic to make it free, so there is no grudge even past the dev’s publicity stunt.
    
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    CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Their attempt to strong arm an exclusivity deal failed and at some point they relented and put the game on their store.
    
    If they had just hosted in on their service at the same time in launched on Steam it would have been better for their customers and more profitable for Epic. But they are more concerned about trying to force exclusives than do what is better for their customers, even if it loses them money.
    
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