I don't know about this specific scenario, but in any scenario where you have an incumbent player that is as deeply entrenched as Steam is, momentum enough is a huge hurdle that may keep an unambiguously 'better' platform in the rear view mirror.
They literally try to buy customers with free shit (carrot) while buying exclusivity contracts for highly anticipated releases to try to force people to them (stick). It's pretty fucking odious and pathetic. I will never have an Epic account. Fuck them.
I started using the epic store after they gave away a lot of free titles. It's pretty decent. Played civ6 for free, currently playing through the Metro 2033 series, also for free.
Exclusivity for app stores isn't comparable to console exclusivity to me. Console exclusivity requires you to go out and buy new hardware at great expense when you already have perfectly adequate hardware. Store exclusivity only requires another account, which password managers already make really simple to deal with.
That's completely missing the point. What if software you purchase on one store, is available on another store, for a completely different price? What if it's also on PS4, Stadia, Xbox, etc.
Wouldn't it suck to have to buy the first game on PC, only to have the first game on Steam, but the second and third game on EGS, and the fourth game on PS5? At least I can go back and play steam games without having to do anything. PS1/2/3/4/5 if I didn't buy the physical disc and kept the console around, I can't go back and play it. Same with Xbox and Nintendo except for the few cases where there was backwards combability with the immediately previous generation console.
Yeah I have exactly that scenario - one of my Metro games is on steam, the other two are on epic. I run all of them from GoG -- it combines steam, epic, uplay, and origin into one library. GoG came with the witcher special edition director's cut for free, and I bought the refreshed diablo 1 on GoG, so it has those as well.
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I don't know about this specific scenario, but in any scenario where you have an incumbent player that is as deeply entrenched as Steam is, momentum enough is a huge hurdle that may keep an unambiguously 'better' platform in the rear view mirror.
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They literally try to buy customers with free shit (carrot) while buying exclusivity contracts for highly anticipated releases to try to force people to them (stick). It's pretty fucking odious and pathetic. I will never have an Epic account. Fuck them.
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The exclusivity was what turned me off. Too much like the console wars that hurt gaming overall.
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I started using the epic store after they gave away a lot of free titles. It's pretty decent. Played civ6 for free, currently playing through the Metro 2033 series, also for free.
Exclusivity for app stores isn't comparable to console exclusivity to me. Console exclusivity requires you to go out and buy new hardware at great expense when you already have perfectly adequate hardware. Store exclusivity only requires another account, which password managers already make really simple to deal with.
The only store
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That's completely missing the point. What if software you purchase on one store, is available on another store, for a completely different price? What if it's also on PS4, Stadia, Xbox, etc.
Wouldn't it suck to have to buy the first game on PC, only to have the first game on Steam, but the second and third game on EGS, and the fourth game on PS5? At least I can go back and play steam games without having to do anything. PS1/2/3/4/5 if I didn't buy the physical disc and kept the console around, I can't go back and play it. Same with Xbox and Nintendo except for the few cases where there was backwards combability with the immediately previous generation console.
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Yeah I have exactly that scenario - one of my Metro games is on steam, the other two are on epic. I run all of them from GoG -- it combines steam, epic, uplay, and origin into one library. GoG came with the witcher special edition director's cut for free, and I bought the refreshed diablo 1 on GoG, so it has those as well.
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Oh and for a completely different price, that's easy, just pick the one with the lowest price :)