>"Competition in stores is going to be absolutely best for consumers and probably good for developers and publishers as well. The stores that tend to win are the stores that offer the best to their customers."
t. Randy Pitchford, in defense of the Epic Store, which competes through exclusive titles, NOT features of the platform itself
>imagine getting your games cucked by Epic
How will PClards ever recover?
>How will PClards ever recover?
Pretty easily: piracy of said titles
But this is the exact type of shit that has been going on in the console industry since its conception. Well, it's not that bad yet, since PC gamers do not have to purchase a 400+ dollar piece of hardware to go along with the exclusives.
>But this is the exact type of shit that has been going on in the console industry since its conception
That's the point. One of the few draws that PC had was that it was open and not limited. Then Steam came along. Now Steam is being left behind for an even less consumer friendly DRM infested loader.
>Competition
I wish they would stop using that word.
>cucked by Epic
What do you mean? They paid the devs for us so we can have the game free
>Competition
What Epic is doing isn't competition. It's literally buying all the goods so other stores can't sell them. It's like playing ball with 5 friends, getting picked last and just buying the ball off your friend and going home with it.
>developers spend the entirety of gen 7 to now going ''fuck consumers, buy our shit and dont ask questions'' by introducing every fucking form of kikery
>suddenly they expect me to think about the poor developers and publishers having to pay a little extra money
hahahaha fuck you
>"don't blame me, it was 2K's decision!"
>proceeds to defend Epic like his life and honor depended on it
>The stores that tend to win are the stores that offer the best to their customers.
Steam offers way fuckin more than Epic though.
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God this guy is a moron.
Anyone else he don't give a shit about Epic or Borderlands but still troll Randy on twitter?
Whoever coined the phrase "no such thing as bad publicity" didn't meet randy.
based and Epic pilled.
oh no, the chinamen will have exclusive access to a strictly B-tier looter-shooter that's ran by an embezzling conman with delusions of being a AAA production. whatever will i do? i guess i could play Destiny 2 or Warframe or AnthemAHAHAHAHAHAHA or any of the other exact same shit borderlands is but without the writing talents of the SJW cartel's Anthony Burch and his sister
what is he looking at
>tfw consolefag so I can buy BL3 without worrying about any of this dumb shit
I'd be more tolerant of all this Epic Game Store nonsense if the devs and publishers would just come out and say, "Well we forsee us getting more money because of Unreal engine deals and Epic paying us" rather than all this inanity about "good for the consumer"
Wanting to make more money isn't a totally objectionable motive motive, or something like how Nintendo is behind funding of Bayonetta 2/3 and it otherwise wouldn't get made is understandable, but trying to dress it all up as "It's good for you" as if this shit wasn't basically arbitrary and could've been released on any and all storefronts if not for EGS making a deal with the publishers is just distasteful.
I'd have more respect if Randy or whoever on other games dealing with the Epic Store fiasco had just left it at, "the publisher made this deal, not us" and just went back to doing whatever their actual job detailed.
but Destiny 2 and Anthem are not on Steam how are you coping here Steamcuck?
He just saw an interesting toilet to take a selfie with
pirate
everyone knows epic games is weak to piracy, just look at the attitude to PC during the mid 2000s
>Tencent is a totally irrelevant factor because they only own 48% of the company, they practically don't exist!
Remember to filter Epic threads
>hey there gamer, stop being so entitled and preorder this $80 deluxe edition with a $50 season pass and microtransactions
devs have burned up so much goodwill yet they expect us to care about them, it's amazing
>Randy and Gearbox are blacklisted by just about everyone because of shit like Colonial Marines, as well as Randy's behavior in general
Are you that surprised that he's taking a massive payout from China?
the problem is not that it's not on steam, the problem is that epic games is garbage, you epic drones can't seem to understand that
Do you also complain when your favourite brand of cereal is only sold at a specific grocery store?
yes
who the fuck wants to drive to more than one store to do grocery shopping?
"citation needed"
heck yeah, walmart till they day I RIP muthufu@$azzz
Yes? It's annoying as fuck to not be able to get every food and general sundries at one grocery store, and even more egregious than a digital storefront because it's a waste of gas.
I'm not asking for everything to be Walmart or Target but goddamn it'd be nice to be able to grab all the shit I need in one counter-clockwise roll around a store.
>devs
There's that word again
Yeah, but what about European solidarity?
I think the best part of this is seeing how dead every non-Fortnite MP game is on the Tencent store.
it's even worse if you don't have a car, imagine having to catch a bus or a train to go between stores while carrying that crap around
You bet your ass that every actual store worth its money tries to listen to your complaints and improvements and actually WANTS you as their customer.
My local super market flat out started ordering (small quantities, though) more uncommon products after people asked for them.
Don't certain people in Europe get charged more by the epic store for a game than they would for the same game on steam?
Okay.
So are you going to compete with DLsite for producing niche pornography that I will buy and enjoy?
how about you deal with it nerd
epic man bad, steam good
Every time this man opens his mouth it gets easier to skip Borderlands 3.
yes, they add transaction fees for certain countries so it's not cheaper
steam eats those fees but epic doesn't because it would make their cut nonviable
Yes. Here in England games are 39.99, usually 34.99 on pc. Epic charged 49.99 for Metro exodus. They can get fucked
