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i wouldnt care if valve loses
they havent made any games lately and their sales are now shit, its only going to get worse if they dont get their shit together
Plus no one really uses source anymore
steam should be a gorilla.
They aren't really on equal terms
Souljaboy really sets the meme off
Based Gaben
This whole thing isnt about competition, Epic is looking to replace Steam and thats that.
if valve loses, everyone with steam games loses.
Steam does so much more than just sell games. It would be a tremendous loss IMO.
Piracy
The difference is console gaymers fight to have exclusives on their platform, PC is doing it to not have exclusives.
Whats the U inbetween PS4 and Xbone?
ouya, theres also solija boy
the joke just simply doesn't work
It's not like you can just use both like an idort.
Or you could just stop buying new games and work on your backlog.
Why would you? That's double the spying.
If Epic won I can just go back to pirating. So whatever.
Steam and Valve are "separate" entities to be fair.
Apex legends is source strangely enough
If you own a smartphone you're already compromised.
Epic abandoned UT4 in pre-pre-alpha? lol who cares Fortnite for the win!
I forgot about those dudes. Good point.
Right in the heart.
haha XD
I really don't like steam. It's a pain to use and couldn't be anymore bloated. I actually would prefer if every publisher had their own online store (under the condition that their online store doesn't suck).
But reading shit like this makes me really appreciate Valve more than any other publisher even If I don't like their main service and haven't played any of their games (besides the 2 Portal games). VR games being divided between multiple platforms like console exclusives is the worst thing that can happen to VR gaming. Not just for the customer but also for the growth of VR gaming in general, yet platform holders like Sony and Oculus only have eyes for their short-term profit as usual.
They really seem like the only company that actually cares about their consumers, with them supporting linux-gaming, modding and non-exclusivity. Newell openly acknowledging piracy as a service issue is also something I never would've imagined coming out of the mouth of a president of a publisher.
>support fortnite.
no.
>Valve is getting into vr
It's over, Epic has won
PIRATECHADS IN THE HOOOUSE TONIGHT EVERYBODY JUST HAVE A GOOD TIME
>I really don't like steam. It's a pain to use.
how so?
Respawn uses source, a heavily modified source, but it's still source
Epic has no chance in hell of winning, if winning means displacing Steam. They're burning the candle from both ends and Valve is far too established. The real question is whether Epic's business practices will become widely adopted. It's a strange time where others like Microsoft are preaching more open policies, like allowing fucking Halo on other stores. This isn't about Epic vs Valve, but a major crossroads in this industry about pro-consumer vs pro-publisher.
Why is Steam the one getting bullied then?
Steam will win unless they go full Sony with censorship, I wouldn't put it past them with how things have been going.
Unbelievably based
Nigger that's what all competition with corporations is. What, do you think McDonalds DOESN'T wanna run the others out of business?
>Artifact
The vegans of Yea Forums.
In what sense? Epic is trying a completely unsustainable short term business strategy tp try to knock out the biggest name in pc gaming right now, and spending insane amounts of money trying to do so.
Meanwhile, the only time valve gave a shit is when epic launcher was caught going through steam files. Beyond that they've Judy been doing what they always do.
>they havent made any games lately
Steam is a fucking store, why does Valve have to make games?
Who is the U next to PlayStation?
>Steam does so much more than just sell games
i never asked for this
Have I ever told you that Neptunia games are so bad that they aren't even worth pirating?
>they havent made any games lately
they do isartifactdead.com
Ouya
>I really don't like steam. It's a pain to use and couldn't be anymore bloated. I actually would prefer if every publisher had their own online store (under the condition that their online store doesn't suck).
>It's a pain to use
>pain to use
>I actually would prefer if every publisher had their own online store
>having 30 different launchers to launch all your games
>a good thing
>you live in the same universe as this user
>you live in the same solar system as this user
>you live on the same planet as this user
>this user is old enough to reproduce and vote
>this anons opinion matters to some people
i didn't know this world could be so horrible. fuck you, you literally must have some sort of learning disability or brain tumor to be this fucking stupid
retarded comparison. I don't have to pay $400 to download steam or epic, and I'm not an absolute mongoloid who would refuse to use one just because I have some blind loyalty to the other
I don't care who wins but if it's epic i'll go full pirate again. I'll never buy a game on their retarded shit store. I don't even want their free shit. Even if the same game was half the price on the epic trash heap i'd still buy it from steam. Fuck epic, fuck chinks, fuck tencent. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>press windows key
>mouse over game you want to play or type in the first few letters of its name
>click
WHOOOAAA WTF ALL THESE LAUNCHERS MAKE IT SO HARD WTF BROS
Dare I say, based and redpilled?
>I already have 1 blood sucking parasite up my anus, might as well get more.
Literally who?
How is this only now a problem? EA, Blizzard and Ubisoft already took their toys and went home ages ago.
BASED
>he doesnt know
newfag O U T!
this time it's chinese people so I'm mad
They make the same shit games every year so no one cared. Blizzard turned to shit as well.
More like:
>Press windows key
>mouse over game you want to play
>Launcher opens up
>loads
>The launcher needs to be updated to continue, do you want to download now?
>Click yes
>wait 5 minutes
>finally done downloading
>launcher relaunches
>click into library
>click on game
>game finally launches
if everything was in one place, this would happen way less often. plus i never have uplay, battle.net, or origin open if im not using them because what is the point of having system resources and memory hogged up so these can stay open in the background? I'm not even sure if you are an actual PC gamer, or just some casual shitter basedboy fag that thinks he knows everything, because clearly you don't.
the whole idea of 'its just another store bro' is some of the most assbackwards thinking i've ever heard of in my life. let's pretend this was the case on xbox...you had launchers for all the different companies you use. if you wanted to play a bungie game on xbox, you had to open the bungie app. if you wanted to play a ubisoft game on xbox, you'd have to open the uplay app and so on and so forth. people would have a fucking fit, but oh, since it's on PC and it's MEANT to have a ton of different programs, it's totally fine!
can you imagine if people applied this argument to literally ANY other medium? imagine you had to open a different music player to listen to albums from different record labels. imagine you had a different kind of streaming service for every type of movie studio (this is already happening to be fair, cbs all access, hulu, netflix, disney+, hbo now, etc...). it's a fucking stupid system. i want all my games in one place, i don't want everything spread about, i don't want to have to deal with a thousand different launchers all needing their own updates and all needing to run in the background of my computer uselessly draining my computers resources...etc. now i know what you're thinking, 'lol just close them bro' and i do, but it's inconvenient
What's the U thing, ouya?
It's okay when America does it
tldr just launch the game dumbass
Wii U
no it isn't retard
I mean the difference is you dont need to pay 600 for a new console to play the exclusive but nice try
epic cant keep up what they are doing forever. fuck, epic pays out if the game undersells so even the moralfag defense of not pirating shit doesnt even work for egs exclusive games.
OUYA
>literally such a fucking brainlet his brain starts hurting when he sees TOO MANY WORDS
is that why you unironically think it's a good idea to have 10+ launchers for all your games? does your brain get overloaded and your nose start bleeding when it sees too much information? I would say you should kys, but i'm sure you are a neet khv and you have already shown to be retarded, so i think you continuing to exist is hell enough for you.
enjoy your life. ps: no one loves you and no one will miss you when you die
SFM
>steambrony already seething and screaming
God, the fucking pc store war is fucking hilarious
It'll take time, but given Steam's pro-consumer stance and Epic's purely pro-publisher stance Steam will win in the end
>Microsoft couldn't establish a storefront to beat Steam even if they had their own exclusives to compliment the other games that released there
>Bethesda just came back to Steam with their tail between their legs because they fucked up so hard on their own storefront and likely nobody was preordering Rage 2
>Only Ubisoft and EA have had successful stores and people only use them for their exclusives
>Epic has no first-party exclusives outside of Fortnite and they won't be able to buy third-party exclusivity forever
Once Epic stops paying for third-party exclusives consumers will have no reason to keep using the Epic Game Store if there's no overall advantage to them using it over Steam or even GOG
Who's the black guy with sunglasses next to the Switch?