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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by n42 on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:26PM (#24310948)
those were all EA titles, so EA had their own publisher exclusive marketplace. Tim Sweeney introduced buying out third-party publishers with exclusivity clauses.

edit: there's a good analogy in another thread -- only being able to buy a Nintendo game at GameStop and not Best Buy.

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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by slavik81 on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:41PM (#24311134)
To be clear, you'd be perfectly happy if Epic bought the developers outright and made the games exclusive to the Epic store? To me, that seems like the same end result for consumers.
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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by Macha on Friday August 28, 2020 @07:41PM (#24311705)
This is equally unpopular when it's happening to Rocket League.

At the same time, nobody really cared about Nintendo making Bayonetta 2.

I think the problem is with taking away something that was already available or announced to be coming, and people have less problems with funding new things with strings attached.

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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by n42 on Friday August 28, 2020 @07:52PM (#24311784)
no, I would not, but it is also not what we were discussing.
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