The Epic Game Store Is Already Looking Bad

Epic Games is just throwing money at 3rd party games to get exclusives and timed exclusives for The Epic Game Store and I wanted to talk about that.

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[snooze]

There conversion rates from USD to AUD is a joke. 60USD equates to 95.00 AUD That's bloody criminal. Im only getting Epic for Metro Exodus, I had no choice but I will avoid this store as much as I can. I HATE this idea.

[larrygall]

Another thing is piracy. A lot of us will just wait for a crack. I haven't done this in over 2 years and have slowly replaced cracked games with Steam versions, but this is one game I'll pirate on principle alone. This is the *wrong platform for exclusivity walls.*

[benshalev]

If epic thinks they can out buy games from valve they r dumb, if valve wants they can legit pay every big AAA game to be only on steam and epic games store will become an indie game store

[larrygall]

This is a comment I left elsewhere, but I'm not typing all this again. It's about why bringing exclusivity to PC is a very bad idea..
My thoughts on Epic's anti-competitive practices...
If they were both selling all available games, as supermarkets all carry the same cereal and other products, and actually *competing* on price.. that's good competition and it benefits customers. If we instead devolve into two armed camps, with half the games releasing on Steam and the other on Epic, this isn't competition as we know it, it's focus on their launchers above the products. Let me explain, if these two (right now just Epic) stores split the games and lock theirs away behind a wall of exclusivity as consoles do, there will be *no motivation to lower prices, * ever. Why would they? It doesn't matter what the other guy (Steam) has, or how much they're charging.. since Epic will have the *only* right to sell someone's game. That is *not* competition. It's just the opposite.

Take a look at the two console's stores, PSN and XLive. Compare the prices on games that are available on Steam as well. Even 3 or 4 year old games are still $50-60 on console stores, and on Steam? $5-10. At least they have arbitrary excuses in the form of proprietary hardware.. here? they're just dividing a market that has always been free and open. People saying "Steam had a monopoly" are just not too bright. Steam has no exclusives. They don't make exclusivity deals with publishers.

Many of the games available on Steam are available elsewhere, and the ones that aren't, are only that way because the creator just put it there thinking anyone / everyone could access it on a well known and very stable store, that hosts cloud storage as well as taking the first line of support albeit a community help section or a set of instructions from the publisher on how to get around a problem. They also had that return policy that I've never understood why people use it.. blindly buying games without watching reviews makes this a service to fools, in my opinion, but they still have this in the absence of "competition." They didn't do these things because someone else did and forced their hand.. they did this stuff on their own in a vacuum.. just like those sales that cut up to 85% off some games multiple times a year.. and I'm not talking about some sill indy games for kids, either.

People who support a new store that came out of the gate with a questionable EULA regarding data and privacy questions, and immediately putting two major games behind a wall of exclusivity.. are just creating a new console-like market on our free platform. Remember.. two armed camps hoarding games and being able to charge *anything they want* because nobody can have it.. is going to be the turning point. We'll quickly see games with base price tags of $100 instead of $60. It's like inviting XLive and PSN to manage our games on PC.

*Potential arguments:*
*"B-but Steam was the only place to get..."* NO. No it wasn't. Steam had no exclusive deals with any publishers. You could get most games on GOG, Ubisoft, Bethesda, etc., and it was the choice of the developer where they put it, and they didn't have to pick one place.

*"B-but Steam didn't have support"* So, either visit the publisher's site or call them.. or better yet *use the Steam support site.* Yes, there is a community full of people who find fixes and workarounds and post them there, and this includes the devs posting recommendations as well. Epic doesn't even have a way to search for games (unless they only have 8 games).. never mind support.

*"B-but.. what about the problem I had with it not working on my.."* Suck it up and figure out how to install games and find fixes off the internet, ans stop assuming Steam or anyone else is there to help with basic install and troubleshooting.

There are no good excuses for wanting console-like exclusivity on a platform where we own our hardware exclusively (not proprietary console hardware).. People should not defend an effort to bring all of the disadvantage of this system to our platform. In the end, it has *nothing* to do with another launcher existing.. it has to do with the building of

[godot]

Now i need to create another account to play games.fuck this shit.

[benshalev]

It’s so weird cuz u been uploading constantly since OW launch and even before and quality content but your channel isn’t growing at all... hope u will get a viral video soon so U will be able to grow super big :)

[RemmyLebo]

Well Done Team Alpha Gaming Approves :)