Re:A golden age of consumer convenience is passing
by rowanG077 on Sunday August 21, 2022 @11:28AM
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Epic game store definitely tries to enforce exclusivity. Prime example beeing Square Enix games. FF7 Remake first released on Epic Game Store and only much later released on Steam. Kingdom Hearts still isn't available in Steam and probably never will be. It's one of the prime reasons I will never buy from them. That way lies madness.
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Re:A golden age of consumer convenience is passing
by jcranmer on Sunday August 21, 2022 @12:17PM
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Yes, they've tried to, but as I've said, it hasn't been particularly effective. Most of the games that had the year-long Epic store exclusivity period happily released on Steam at the end of that period.
Re:A golden age of consumer convenience is passing
by MisterBastahrd on Sunday August 21, 2022 @08:13PM
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Epic even gives away two games a week. Still doesn't make much of a difference.
Re:A golden age of consumer convenience is passing
by SXX on Sunday August 21, 2022 @11:13PM
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Epic giveaway tactics is mainly targeted at their Fortnite audience. There are some kids who never had a Steam account before, but who play Fortnite. So Epic goal is to get them on the hook by providing them with a library of free games.
At the same time giveaways mean very little for existing Steam audience. Piracy was always easy on PC and gamers choose Steam over piracy not jusf because of law or moral reasons, but because Steam is more convinient and offer tons of features.
EGS is simply lacking a lot of niche, but importanf features. Most people likely only ever 5% of Steam features, but you soon find how useful are some of them when you try other platform.