• easily3667@lemmus.org
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    6 days ago

    So you want to give steam exclusive access to your money because epic wants it? Genius move, really. This won’t go badly for you in the next decade.

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      6 days ago

      Yes, because they still allow you to spend your money elsewhere if a new storefront appears on the market. Epic is actively preventing that.

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          5 days ago

          Yes, that’s what exclusive access to games mean. You can’t buy them from other stores because Epic is actively preventing the developers from doing so.

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            5 days ago

            By…signing legal agreements that the developers enter into willingly? We aren’t talking momandpop shops here, these game producers have legal teams.

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              5 days ago

              So we can’t complain about Valve’s 30% cut, then? Because its a legal agreement that game companies willingly enter into, is it not? What about game companies overworking their developers? It’s all dandy because the devs willingly agreed when they enter into the employment?

              You’re also forgetting about games that Epic pulled from other stores after buying the company making them. That’s even shittier than releasing games exclusively on Epic.

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      5 days ago

      I mentioned two stores in my comment, what exclusive access to money are you talking about?