Is this true? Is the Epic Game Store store debate just another console war?

Is this true? Is the Epic Game Store store debate just another console war?

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No, it's the East vs West kind of war. China vs America.

it's worse since there is no hardware sale involved

just install both launchers you pissant crybabies

Epic want to create a "console" war on PC, everyone until they appeared was fine with each others, we already had Steam, GoG, Uplay, Origin EA store and massive amount of key seller that profit everyone.
then, the chinks has to come in and fuck everything up and force everyone to try to go THEIR ways, and when i say the chinks i'm not even joking, until Tencent ( totally not owned by chinese gov't ) brought 40% of share in Epic company, Epic was still delivering liscence to indie devs to use the UE4 and make Unreal Tournament 4.

TL;DR Chinese governement investissor brought something and create scummy practice and think this will make people accept them

No, that's just obfuscation of the real problem. That being the shift towards digital accelerating the erosion of consumer rights, as every major publisher and some of the larger devs will be able to set up their own storefront with their own exclusives, and where they will have total and complete control over what content is approved for your account and how you can interact with it. Many of these storefronts, in the long run, will not be able to last in an over saturated market - and when they go down, usage rights for the software you've "purchased" will be invalidated as your account evaporates. Buying a game is, itself, a gamble these days on whether or not it'll even still be around and accessible in a few years... as stores close and merge and maneuver to stay more competitive, your "purchases" will get the axe and force you to buy the game over again - if it's even still available from other outlets. Copies of older software may be intentionally pulled from sale across the markets in order to drive sales of newer installments, or to encourage subscription to streaming services that will also go defunct, or to licensing agreements expiring which prevent the acquisition of a new license to replace the one you had which evaporated. If the publishers even remember they have an established catalog of games they could sell once they no longer need them to pad their selection. Nobody really gives a shit if they have to open a second or third or fourth launcher - it's the fragmentation of the market coupled with a systematic erosion of all consumer rights that has people pissed off.

This is why the only worthwhile storefront available on the PC is GoG, because they require everything they sell to be DRM free and you can make personal backups of everything with standalone installers that you can still access long after the storefront is gone.

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No, it's not *another* console war. It's the same console war infecting PC. We fucking told you consolecucks that exclusives were cancer and now look what you've done. You've fucking infected us with this trash. You dumb motherfuckers. I hope you all get fucking robbed and beat to shit by a pack of angry niggers.

Top lel. You can only have a war if both sides actually put up a fight. As it stands, Steam doesnt even have to try to pulverize EGS
>bu-but muh borderlands!

It's more like people who care vs people who don't care. No one actually thinks EGS is better.

>No one actually thinks EGS is better.
The eternal chink shill that roams around here disagrees with you, while simultaneously not saying why it is better.