this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2024
720 points (91.2% liked)

Games

32976 readers
1156 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Nothing more disappointing to me than seeing a game I might enjoy... and then it's only available on PC on Epic Games store. Why can't it be available on Epic, Xbox game store and Steam? It's so annoying, like you have no choice but to use Epic... which I would literally do ANYTHING not to use.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 100 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well they decide to lose customers, up to them.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yep. I loved Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, and was excielted to hear they made a sequel. Then I learned it's an EGS exclusive. They can go get bent, not buying from them anymore

[–] butter@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

TIL, they made a soasr sequel. Was it good?

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No idea, I refuse to buy it. The first one was good.

[–] butter@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I am aware. They're still not getting my money

[–] butter@midwest.social 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you refuse to buy on Epic, you send the message that you don't like to buy from Epic.

If you refuse to buy after it hits steam, then you're just 1 of several billion who didn't buy the game.

Why would you continue to not buy?

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

If you refuse to buy after it hits steam, then you're just 1 of several billion who didn't buy the game.

No, you have it backwards. If people buy the game when it goes on Steam, that tells the developer they can double dip buy going Epic exclusive then releasing at full price on Steam a year later with no repurcussions.

The only way to make the publisher learn to not go Epic exclusive is to not buy those games at all, even after they are brought onto other marketplaces