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Epic brute forced their way into this space and still have an inferior product. Your comment might be one of the few times I’ve ever seen someone speak halfway

• polytely 7y ago
  Well I get the outrage and all that, but that's mainly hard-core enthusiasts who pay attention to the industry. I also was kinda pissed when Control and Outer Worlds went exclusive, but in the end my love for those developers won out against epic's business practices. I just think it's very impressive how they leveraged their sudden hoard of cash from Fortnite and their developer contacts via the unreal engine into a seemingly(?) successful steam competitor. I'm not really a business-oriented-guy but it seems to me like it is an amazingly clever and well executed move. I remember that when the orange box launched a lot of people (at least on the messageboards) where opposed to steam because it sucked and was basically DRM disguised as a store it's only because of the passing of time that it's now considered good. The orange box was in hindsight also a masterful move. I guess the lesson is, if you have content people REALLY want, you can get them onto your platform despite the outrage.