Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
by ekianjo on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:54AM
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> Either you’re younger than me or you’ve forgotten about the pre-order content exclusives from different stores.
This has basically no bearing to the actual game access. While now, buying in a certain store means a very limited selection of titles, which is unlike anything ever experienced in physical retail. So, bad analogy.
Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
by ricardobayes on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:33PM
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Yes, makes my blood boil that Stadia is hogging the rights to stream Rockstar games, but you can't import them. So even though I have purchased them, I need to buy them again.
Either you’re younger than me or you’ve forgotten about the pre-order content exclusives from different stores.
If physical retailers had the marketshare that online distribution now has I’m sure they would have done exclusive games. If you have smaller game devs and no cost of disc manufacturing (ie download only) its easier to make exclusivity deals.