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> They eventually resorted to bribing people with free games to join their platform, and pressuring devs into exclusive deals with lower platform cuts instead o
by cinntaile 5y ago
> They eventually resorted to bribing people with free games to join their platform, and pressuring devs into exclusive deals with lower platform cuts instead of fixing their damn product.
You frame it as a bad thing but this is not a bad thing.
Epic seems like a pretty decent company overall. Not perfect by any measure of course.
- franga2000 5y agoExclusive deals are bad for consumers - there's no way to frame it otherwise. And it's not like Epic paid full price for all of the games they gave away.
- cinntaile 5y agoThe only real downside for consumers is having to install Epics software. Exclusive deals tend to have a timelimit after which they can be distributed on other platforms as well. The upside is cheaper games and some badly needed competition for Steam.
- franga2000 5y agoThey limit customer choice. Different platforms have different features and policies, which we should be able to pick between. If I want good Linux support, I go to Steam. If I wanted something else that someone else did better, I'd go there. With exclusives, that choice is gone.