Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint

Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by yellowapple on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:44PM (#26169913)

> Sometimes you can use another publisher app store. Which will in fact start another app store upon starting the game.

Not saying this doesn't ever happen, but I've used Steam for more than a decade now and not once have I seen that happen, ever.

Yes, some games have separate launchers, and yes, sometimes these have support for their own separate accounts and mod loaders and such, but not once have they actually been full-blown alternative app stores.

I don't buy very many modern AAA titles, though, so that might be part of it. Still, of the ones I do buy, none of them have installed some alternative store.

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by jamesgeck0 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @02:10PM (#26170216)

Practically every game from EA or Ubisoft on Steam published within the last eight years or so does this.

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by Daho0n on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:43PM (#26171464)

And they do so because people support it.

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by jamesgeck0 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:25PM (#26171999)

Like so much else in PC gaming, they do so because customers don't have a choice. If I want to play The Division with my friends, I have to put up with an extra launcher.

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by ascar on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:41PM (#26172162)

If it bothers you enough, then don't play the division?

I actively avoid and don't buy/play games that require Origin or Uplay. Even when friends tell me about free games in Origin I don't give a fuck. And I'm a very active gamer.

You do have a choice. There are tons of awesome games out there.

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by kingsleyopara on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @07:51PM (#26174010)

Playing devil's advocate: If it bothers you enough, then don't buy an iPhone?

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by PandawanFr on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:34PM (#26172099)

Ubisoft does this for games that are shared with Steam. You launch the game on Uplay which starts Steam which starts the game.

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