reminder that pc launcher exclusives aren't a new thing:
Battle.net
-SC2
-Overwatch
-D3
-WoW
-etc
Steam:
-HL1/2
Portal 1/2
-TF1/2
-etc
Epic:
-Fortnite
-Metro Exodus
-Borderlands 3
-etc
Origin
-Apex
-Anthem
-Battlefront
-etc
PC EXCLUSIVES
Dylan Wood
Henry Roberts
ok
Jonathan Long
only games I've heard of are fortnite metro borderlands apex and anthem.
Lucas Edwards
Reminder that companies paying publishers to not release games on other storefronts is unprecedented in the PC marketplace for over 20 years.
Bentley Collins
what's the point of pretending to be retarded?
Cooper Long
release your own game on your own platform. who would've thought?
Aaron Campbell
all of the exclusives except Epics make sense since they were made by the companies operating that launcher. Epic didn't make Metro or Borderlands.
Brody Collins
It's ok when the game was developed by the owners of the store you dumb fuck
Caleb Flores
so epic created metro and borderlands?
neat
Isaac Davis
>battle.net exclusives
Games made and published by Activision-Blizzard
>steam exclusives
Games made and published by Valve
>Origin exclusives
EA games
>Epic exclusives
?
Cameron Turner
I'm skeptical of this claim. But I don't think its fair to claim ~20 years when there have only been a handful of launchers older than a couple years old
Jonathan Perry
Literally no one cares about first party exclusives it’s the fact that epic is starting to be extremely monopolistic and buying out games to be exclusive to their platforms is what people are angry about
>inb4 but steam is a monopoly
So they are a market leader they don’t do anything but exist
Julian Bailey
sorry, I forgot to mention overwatch. I know that one too.
Thomas Carter
no* not so
Jack James
This. Those chinks are so uncreative, they have to pay for originality
Daniel Torres
just post the epic app datamining so there will be an end to the horror
Isaiah Stewart
It happened a long time ago in the PC market when IBM took over. Before that it was Apple computers and other PCs like Commodore 64s and so on. IBM heavy handed DOS. Commodore was never the same and Apple switched gears to focus on other ventures.
Asher Rogers
>Battle.net
Because all the games on it are made by themself
>Steam
Again, own developers
>Origin
Are you even trying OP?
You basically fucked up your own "argument" OP.
Caleb Reed
The #1 complaint is that Epic is bringing exclusives (a predominately console thing) to PC.
Saying "OH ITS OK WHEN THEY DO IT BECAUSE X/Y" is moving the goalpost.
Chase Robinson
I see where you're coming from but we're talking about launchers here. The fight you're talking about is vs PC/Mac/Linux and we all know who holds the monopoly there.
Juan Kelly
Chase Cruz
>doesn't have 3 arms for 3rd installment
wtf gearbox
Carter Ross
You're misunderstanding. It's not PC/Mac/Linux. This predates that. IBM paid game developers to specifically not release games for Commodore 64 or Apple computers and instead only develop for DOS. It wasn't just a matter of people moving to a new technology. IBM used money to force it because too many people were still using C64 and Apple for games. They wanted to be the only place where games were made and it worked because they had all of that military money backing them.
In this instance you can consider different hardware a different launcher, because back then machinery and the OS used to run the software were inseparable. The point is the last time this happened was a long time ago and it resulted in a de facto monopoly as you stated. I don't want business practices like that anywhere near my games. It's why I abandoned the console market over a decade ago. I don't want to spend 3x more money just to have potential access to all games, so I would rather spend 0x the money and get my games where I have more options.
Xavier Davis
>>Epic exclusives
>?
devs and publishers bribed by squeakernite bucks