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Epic gets hate for anticompetitive behavior and essentially trying to buy success with exclusivity deals. They aren’t winning business by being better at anythi
by colechristensen 4y ago
Epic gets hate for anticompetitive behavior and essentially trying to buy success with exclusivity deals. They aren’t winning business by being better at anything they do, just by owning things and using that for leverage, and then people who care about a game feel forced to use a store they don’t want to use, sometimes after a last minute rug pull before release.
Content + distribution houses shouldn’t be allowed to do these things in any industry.
- scubbo 4y agoAgreed - from a philosophical perspective it's distasteful for a company to be "successful" purely because they can "do underhanded business better" rather than because they are genuinely providing a better product. If that was the sole criticism, I'd entirely understand and support it. I'm trying to understand the claim that exclusivity is "awkward" rather than the claim that it's morally distasteful. If the game-service is free, and if you can launch the game directly with a desktop icon, why is your life complexified by the fact that a different launcher is used "under the hood"? To be clear, I am not disagreeing with your points at all. I am asking about a different point.