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Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable (kotaku.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They are literally releasing their games on another platform that actually requires them to put money into the project again to develop a port. So yeah, even PS atm is better than Epic.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So Playstation releasing some of their games literally years later as often sub-par ports is better than being able to play a game day 1 native on PC? I'd love to hear to the logic for that lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's better than keeping them artificially locked behind a launcher for no reason whatsoever, yes.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So just let me get that straight.

You also don't like exclusives and want ppl to be able to play the way they want.

...and somehow Playstation - actively releasing their games on PC, investing time, money & effort - are worse than Epic who just want to lure ppl to their store/launcher and actively taking away the choice of playing method?

Alrighty then...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Epic also releases their games on PC lol

And they release them day 1, without the multiple year wait from console release, and not as shitty ports. Fuck yes that's better than PlayStation, it's a no-brainer.

I'm truly baffled that anyone could have this take seriously. PC =/= Steam.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Wow... Seriously? No they release it for their launcher exclusively not for pc.

If you're talking platforms Sony is WAY MORE OPEN than Epic ever will be, we can just pray they fail hard and this practice doesn't become the norm (again)

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No they release it for their launcher exclusively not for pc

So anything that only releases on Steam is also an exclusive and "not for pc"?

If you’re talking platforms Sony is WAY MORE OPEN than Epic ever will be

Because Epic Games Launcher is only PC? Then Sony is also better than any company that releases only on Steam for PC?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yes. If it's paid to ONLY be on Steam.

If we follow your "logic" yes.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lmao

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Okay I'll give up after that one.

Sony & Xbox once used to have exclusives for their platforms. Xbox opened up completely and releases everything to PC as well. Sony opened up later and now brings their games to PC as well. Sometimes a year later, sometimes a month. So they're multi Plattform now and you can choose where and how to play it.

EA and Ubisoft decided to open up their LAUNCHERS and give you the choice where to buy& play - it's not completely open, because often you'll still need their browsers but it's a step in the right direction.

So the trend seems to be to open up more to reach more people and sell more games that way.

EPIC on the other hand is completely closed, buying exclusives for their launcher or for a certain time. It's a shitty approach to force people to their store and they still aren't profitable - that's the only good thing about epic proofing that this approach doesn't work anymore.

Are Sony/Xbox/EA/Ubisoft perfect? No. - but they all get that being more open is the way to go. They don't do it because they're nice or want us to be happy with games - They do it because it's profitable, but coincidentally that's a good trend that's worthy of support.