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Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 (www.remedygames.com)
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Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 and bringing Control and Alan Wake to film and television

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Lol, your two examples are from companies that have their own shitty launchers that customers hated using because they aren't very good. That's a service issue entirely on them, steams MoNoPoLy is a lazy excuse to paper over that glaring fact.

Again, store do good isn't a monopoly. Steam isn't a monopoly just because every other competitor doesn't know what customers want or don't care because it's expensive. And you're kinda proving my point. There are tons of competing stores out there to use, but people don't use them nearly as much because they suck or they're not feature complete. Both Blizzard and Ubisoft have their own competing stores, but neither can get market share because they refuse to offer features that customers want. Epic has the same problem.

Steam's MoNoPolY is 100% a lack of services and features from the competition, and that's what keeps people coming back to the environment. This isn't Walmart undercutting sales to drive competitors out of the market, this is smaller hobby stores mad they can't slap their customers and be entitled to the business the big player has.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What features? I have seen a lot of complaining about performance of the storefront here, which leads me to believe a lot of the complainers have not actually used EGS in actual years. I haven't seen anyone mention an actual specific feature of Steam that EGS is missing. Multiple running versions for beta testing, DLC linking with the main game page, sale frequency, everything except the social features of steam (which are notorious for being garbage communities) are on par in EGS these days, so this thread is confusing for me since you guys haven't actually explained a single missing feature.