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SHAT IT DOWN NAO! U DO IT NAO!

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all the people who like the epic store are ccp-paid shills

fuck chinese niggers

so we are trying to derail this thread?
let me help

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the problem is that publisher set prices not the stores

Is OP a fag?

this

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Does OP smoke cock?

will barb outlive chris?

That's not blank, retard.

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can I get a link to that site lad

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Reminder do not reply to these threads, even anti epic threads are made by epic shills

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nobody cares about your kids movie

>2019
>niggers still dont know how to pirate
We deserved to be under chinks

Will OP ever stop sucking dicks?

9k hours

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Would people make this kind of fuss if it was steam hogging the exclusives?

nice bait faggot

If valve was buying exclusives, yes, if not, no one would care.

considering they basically dominated the exclusives market for ages? No.

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>all the sites on the left selling Steam keys to redeem a game on Steam somehow isn't a Steam monopoly because you get to choose where and how you give Steam money
Yeah okay retard.

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FUCKING HOW??

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Can someone give me a quick rundown on why exactly it is that so many people are pretending to care about epic games having exclusives?

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lol

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Did it work?

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Imagine being paid to shill by the Chinese Communist Party

Imagine being this paranoid

Epic does lower the price though. Metro Exodus was only $50 on release.

Imagine hating the free market

because you touch yourself at night

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“if at all all the PC players announce a boycott of the Metro, then the next metro, if it does, is definitely not on the PC. Better or worse, decide for yourself. I personally feel sorry for the loyal fans, yes. But my assessment of the work done personally by me and my friends and colleagues will not change this.”

>mfw people will fall for this

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>Not understanding how steam keys work.
Fucking idiot

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>Tfw can Blank post but can't spoiler tag

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>steam has a monopoly
>create another monopoly
gg chinacucks

Wow it's almost like consolefags ruin everything

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Pretty tragic that PC hasn't had an actual exclusive in a decade and now they can't even play multiplats.

What an extremely low quality post
Somebody actually put time into typing this out can you even imagine

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Pay close attention to their sentence structure and general use of grammar.

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>People honestly truly believe that is how competition works

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that is sometimes how competition works, and is pro-consumer. the way competition works in the case of epic is anti-consumer

This *doesn't* work you **nigger**

>China
>Free market
Unfettered Free market doesn't work, and China is a perfect example of why.

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something something capitalism monopoly

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They are shills, always spinning lies and half truths into PR.
I'm surprised they haven't paid Hiro and the mods to ban anybody speaking against the one party rule of Epic.

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Will I get a qt gf?

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I don't understand, doesn't epic have better share cuts for developers? So it's on steam to adjust theirs and on the developers on both platforms to lower prices.

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Steam is such a fucking hoe. I love it.

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Well it's not in this case. A price war would be ruinous for both sides, which is why it isn't happening.
I mean I don't like exclusives, but if you honestly thought this would directly benefit you then you're an idiot and you deserve to get fucked

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>I don't understand, doesn't epic have better share cuts for developers? So it's on steam to adjust theirs and on the developers on both platforms to lower prices.
>conflating publishers with devs

>epic kills steam
>then epic dies too
>along with all the other always online mandatory performance hogging launchers

I still dream for the day that we are free again

>if you honestly thought this would directly benefit you then you're an idiot and you deserve to get fucked
everyone knew nothing good was going to come from it

>developers
publishers

>So it's on steam to adjust theirs and on the developers on both platforms to lower prices.
No because the better cut is not why publishers are signing exclusivity deals, itch has a 100/0 cut so why don't they use that?

>Can't spoiler tag
That means you manually type [ spoiler ][ /spoiler ]?
Really now?
Look, there's a simpler way.

plus, it must be tedious to type

Something like this

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You have big stupid.
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Apparently not, according to OP's pic

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>image fucks up my careful formatting
Ah well. I'll just tell you outright there's a hidden message in there.

>it's only free market when I like it

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ctrl+s newfriend

>conflating "want" with "expect"

not that guy but
>press ctrl+s
>firefox tries to save the webpage
>i have to type out spoilers every time

What's stopping Steam from lowering the price on the games they have the right to sell to compete with Epic?

Saw an ad for this while sitting in an empty theater for Dragon Ball Super. Looks cringy as fuck.

is there any definitive proof chinamen are behind the Epic store and purposely paying people to shill it? Cause if not it's just "muh russian hackers" shit.

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Because this is purely a competition for attracting publishers/devs, how the fuck would it benefit them to lower game prices?

Steam doesn't control the prices, the publishers do.

It's literally not free market. China doesn't play by the rules, which is their choice, and it's smart. But everyone pretending like you can deal with China and that this is "free market" is retarded.
Also Chinks are just super jews so fuck off.
Free Market is a meme, it doesn't work. Fuck China and fuck bugmen.

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I thought Steam was pro consumer?

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>choose where and how you give Steam money
So its not about getting it for competing prices, generally well under market value, its about valve having the marketshare?
And to think, I used to be so skeptical of steam.

Also using firefox, and that only happens to me when I'm using the reply window at the top of the page.
You DO know you can click a posts number to reply, right?

It literally is, you retarded socialist faggot.

You think you have living standards like you do because Walmart is nice?

thats the closest you can get to an actual triforce anymore. other methods have been disabled.

Will it get better?

N^I^G^G^E^R^S

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Then why does Steam demand no store be allowed to offer a permanent MSRP lower than their store if they don't control prices?

Yeah, so? How does that contradict what I said? Epic is purely going for this kind of competition and lowering prices has nothing to do with it.

where do they demand that

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my firefox install is so fucked when it comes to Yea Forums. i have 4chanx, and sometimes clicking the post numbers doesnt work, sometimes it does. but ctrl+s does the same regardless of using the top reply or the pop-up window. also the likes and perks shit was totally fucked for most of april fool's regardless of disabling 4chanx. maybe i should just switch to waterfox

>how the fuck would it benefit them to lower game prices?
are you seriously asking this? If they undercut Epic, they can steal their sales. If the revenue from the stolen sales outweighs the losses of lowering the price of the product, it would be sensible to do it. Only once Epic has a giant library of games people actually give a fuck about will this be something that makes economic sense for Steam to do.

Steam will supposedly win this "war" because they are pro consumer and offer better options and pricing which is what really matters, yet it sounds like you're implying that games are what actually matter and Steam doesn't have many.

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i want to try it too!

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[flip] haha [/flip]

ha^ha

Steam keys are obtained by the publisher for free, and sold off to other retailers. Steam does not get a cut from the sale of Steam Keys through other retailers. The only thing Steam gets is the product being sold on their store, and the promise that the publisher will run similar promotions on Steam as they do through other retailers. i.e. We get to sell your product, and treat our customers the same as other retailers' customers.
See: partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

He's referring to: partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys
They don't set the prices, they just require that their customers be treated the same as other customers.

In the contract you sign with them to have a game on their store

>If they undercut Epic, they can steal their sales.
Except Steam already undercuts Epic to an extreme degree with regional pricing, Epic knows it can't compete with Steam from a consumer standpoint which is why they are completely avoiding any kind of competition in this sense and simply forcing people to use their store to buy their exclusive games.
You somehow manage to complete misunderstand everything about what's going on, it's impressive, nothing of what you said makes any sense.

Steam still has no control over the prices you retard. If publishers offer better deals elsewhere, and don't provide them to the Steam store, then their product risks getting removed from Steam. Now explain how this policy would allow Steam to directly lower the price of a product.

Will the second coming happen in the year 2020?

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Are you unironically retarded?

It's a matter of balance, they could have their own website and sell for 100% profit, or use a website swarmed with trash indies, but they know that they simply won't push as many units and so the increase won't be worth.
If epic can pretend that games on their store sell similarly well to steam, while offering a higher cut, that's all the publishers will care about.

>Now explain how this policy would allow Steam to directly lower the price of a product.

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>You somehow manage to complete misunderstand everything about what's going on, it's impressive, nothing of what you said makes any sense.
btfo yourself with your own fucking post, faget

Here is the 'thing': with intellectual property a lot of the assumptions about items and price competition aren't true when looking at individual games.
Only one company is really selling you the game and only that company controls the price, everybody down the line is a reseller or a middle man.
With the death of the second hand market this is even more true, you will always have the game sold to you at the price set by the publisher/developer.
Competition happens between games, and when a game has a sale it's because the publisher OKed it, because he's seeing a glut in sales and calculates this tactic will earn him more, not because the store is getting rid of excess stock as is the case with sales on cloths and other non-digital goods.
Thus the competition between stores can't lead to cheaper games. What it can lead to is more profit for developers as they play stores against each other.
This is beneficial in the long term as profitability means more games will be made.

why would I want that?

>If epic can pretend that games on their store sell similarly well to steam, while offering a higher cut
How does that make exclusivity attractive? Epic already has a lower cut but no dev is putting their games up on Epic solely because of the better cut, they are only doing it because of the exclusivity deals.

Why? Because it's fucking stupid to limit your audience unless you are shilling for a particular storefront, a better percentage of zero is still zero.

Will I get a qt big tiddy southern goth gf?

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>we wanted
You mean there was actually delusional retards who believed the left picture would happen?

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will I succeed in my field

yeah when does stuff ever get cheaper

>HAHAHAHA GET A LOAD OF THESE NEWMEN WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO SOME TOTALLY USELESS FUNCTION NO ONE EVEN TALKS ABOUT HAHAHAHAHA
Okay kid calm down we get it you're a Yea Forums OG.

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That's what happened with the dozens of other stores around, GOG is the prime example of competing through making better services.

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Is that why no one switched to them, no publishers release games there and the store is close to going out of business?

%triforce

woah, epic

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%triforce

>Is that why no one switched to them
How the fuck no one switched to them when the store has been up for years and is one of the biggest ones around? How do you come up with your retarded headcanon?

They mostly compete through temporary sales, and the existence of competing retailers means that raising your prices when the others don't is insured destruction. The reason why game prices have stuck to being capped at $60 is because there's healthy market competition. Yes, publishers are getting around that with shitty DLC practices, but still. That's the publishers, not the retailers.

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If the EGS starts selling games for $80 instead of $60 base, what other retailer will you go to to buy that game at a reasonable price?

>the Arena Football League is the second biggest football league in America which means it's doing great.

>>but if you honestly thought this would directly benefit you then you're an idiot and you deserve to get fucked
>Epic begins aggressively making exclusivity deals and buying out publishers
>"lol stop worrying user theyre just making competition, it's good for us ;))"
>Customer ends up only suffering
>"What are you, stupid? No one said this would benefit you"

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If Steam revokes your license to all your games how would you play them?

Bah fuck it, choose your princess

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Yeah there are plenty of stores doing great, Steam being the biggest one doesn't make it a monopoly or those others "not real competition".

Seriously, you are clearly very ignorant on big the digital store market is, make an account on isthereanydeal for example and sign up for newsletters and you will be absolutely showered by sales and deals you didn't know existed since you are a retard.

>If the EGS starts selling games for $80 instead of $60
won't happen if the heads of epic have an IQ above room temperature

Lmao fuck off back to ifunny underage newfag

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Why not? Where else would you purchase the game? The thing stopping other companies from doing this is market competition. EGS is buying up exclusive market rights. You want that EGS exclusive? The EGS is your only option, you'll pay the price they set.

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I like how you're ignoring that GOG, the most consumer friendly option is literally the least successful of all storefronts.

I keep hearing retards and journos saying that Steam "needs competition" but why? It has the biggest library, most features and steam key sales means that you can get games at reduced prices before the games are even out
What necessitates a "competition" for steam after Origin, Uplay. Gog, Battle.net, etc failed to compete with steam?

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>all those retard newfags falling for this
I love you user

>Why not?
because drastically less people will buy it. not too difficult to understand.

No, far from it, it's one of the biggest ones by far.
Do what I told you already, stop being willfully ignorant for once.

I love you too

Games were effectively exclusive to steam since around 2010 and prices never went up. You know nothing about business.

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Good goy. Monopolies are good.

It already happened with their nonexistent regional pricing, I have to pay double for everything now because they have no competition for the games they hold a monopoly on.

If we ignore Origin, Epic, Uplay, Steam, and Humble, sure it's huge.

cant believe how many newfags that user got

i will succeed.

Will I find a gf this month?

>Games were effectively exclusive to steam since around 2010
See:
Or if you think buying a Steam key from a different retailer gives Steam money, see:

I don't think you understand how fucking many other stores there are other than the biggest ones (which GOG is part of).
Stop being ignorant, third time I'm telling you already.

i will succeed

grey market keys doesn't make it any less monopolistic

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>guys you may think K-Mart isn't successful, well it's doing better than the mom and pop store

Any content that you create, generate, or make available through the Epic Games store application shall be “UGC”. You hereby grant to Epic a non-exclusive, fully-paid, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, distribute, prepare derivative works based on, publicly perform, publicly display, make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise exploit your UGC for any purposes, for all current and future methods and forms of exploitation in any country. You may not create, generate, or make available any UGC to which you do not have the right to grant Epic such license. In addition, you may not create, generate, or make available any UGC that is illegal or violates or infringes another’s rights, including intellectual property rights or privacy, publicity or moral rights. Epic reserves the right to take down any UGC in its discretion." The TOS of epic store.

lmao

It’s beautiful, they are STILL trying.

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>grey market
>unintentional use of keys by reselling them elsewhere
>despite the steam guidelines saying it is 100% intentional
Try reading the post you're replying to.

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Large princess, how is this even a question?

You don't know what a grey market is.

Wow a common license agreement, the horror.

will Elder Scrolls ever be good again?

Riddle me this, how can steam be a monopoly if sites like Origin, Uplay, GoG, Blizzard’s own launcher, and now currently Epic exist?

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User-generated content (UGC), alternatively known as user-created content (UCC), is any form of content, such as images, videos, text and audio, that have been posted by users on online platforms such as social media and wikis.

Are we going to make it?

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Fucking newfags

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>Newfags literally can't do it with instructions right infront of them

publicly perform, publicly display, make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise exploit your UGC for any purposes, for all current and future methods and forms of exploitation in any country.

This has nothing to do with every game requiring a steam key and still not rising from an MSRP of $59.99 you moron. It's literally devs selling keys at 100% profit and reducing price because they don't have to deal with steams cut. Steam was competing with no one as far as storefronts go and prices never rose just like Walmart hasn't risen theirs despite killing every other retailer

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hard choice but ima have to go with wobbly girl

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Yeah, that means they can show footage of the game to advertise their store. Once again a common license agreement. Not that I'd expect a middle schooler like you to know

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Steam is competing with other retailers, and has been since its inception. Early steam games still sold at physical retailers, and the transition away from those came with the advent of a plethora of other digital retailers. For a current example, see:
Try reading the posts you're replying to.

>Walmart hasn't risen theirs despite killing every other retailer
Oh, nevermind. You're an absolute retard. Walmart prices have been rising in accordance with the other retailers that still exist.

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>Steam was competing with devs selling keys for their own service on websites 99% of people never heard of
ok retard.

think about it

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YOU'LL NEVER REACH HER WITH THAT TINY ASS MOUSE VOICE

this but unironically

So glad mono-platform retards are tearing at each others throats. Its what you faggots deserve.

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Was born in 2000 try again kiddo.

Yeah man, those real obscure retailers. Like Amazon, Walmart, Bestbuy, GOG, Microsoft, Humble, chrono.gg, Discord

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Sup bitch
We just like the system that's the best
The P Half-Circle

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Will my friends stay my best friends?

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>anticipate the key argument
>provide argument against the key argument
>THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH EVERY GAME REQUIRING A STEAM KEY
>okay, the other side of the argument still stands
>THIS HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH EVERY GAME REQUIRING A STEAM KEY

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Will I successfully go through my studies?

Will I ever get another girlfriend?

will a mod put this thread out of it's misery?

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i fucking will

All of which offer the game at the same MSRP as Steam because if they don't Steam bans the publisher from selling on Steam.
You're the only one who said requiring a steam key doesn't matter because you're a moron who thinks devs selling keys for steam they generate themselves at 100% profit is somehow a storefront competing with Steam.

The epic store just shows which companies actually care a little about their customers and which ones don't at all.

The severe lack of parenting skills in our countries makes me feel confident that my Nephews will have a better chance in life, because my brother and his wife aren't fucking retards who let technology raise their kids.

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no company cares about the costumers, those who don't go exclusive simply didn't want to make a bad image of themselvers or decided the epic bribe wan't worth the lost sales